Exile
‘The Killers’
USA 1946, Director: Robert Siodmak
OV
Original format: 35 mm, 1:1.37, bw
Screening print: DCP, 102 min, Universal Pictures/Park Circus
Introduction: Jan-Christopher Horak (Film scholar)
Two hitmen wait in Henry’s Diner for the local gas station attendant, a former boxer known as “The Swede.” Although he has been warned, he makes no attempt to flee. Because he held a life insurance policy, an insurance investigator starts looking into the murder. With ‘The Killers’, Robert Siodmak, who first fled to France in 1933, and then to exile in the USA in 1939, created a prototypical film noir that shows clear influences of the expressionist cinema of Weimar Germany.
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