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Innocent Assassins

1973 · 84 min

A wry, uneasy puzzle where fiction and reality blur, leaving you unsettled and quietly amused.

Genres
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Overview
Two arts students, András and Viktor who are writing their thesis on detective stories, make up a story and keep nagging the famous film-director, who just came back from Hollywood, until he undertakes the job. At night they work on the film, in which two youths kill a director returning from the US. In the morning the director is found dead - a knife in his back.

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    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • obsession
    • art
    • deception
    • crime
    • identity
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • nonlinear
    Content intensity
    • Gore mild
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
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    Action2
    Horror3
    Humour4
    Realism6
    Romance2
    Tension6
    Darkness6
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight5

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