Released Date:
2005-04-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
Norway, USA, Germany, France, Italy
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (11594 Reviews)
Director:
Bent HamerCharles Bukowski (novel)
Bent Hamer
Jim Stark
Self-declared aspiring writer Hank Chinaski has neither qualifications, ambition nor ethics. Any dead-end job he lands is soon lost through laziness or mischief. His relationship with fellow deadbeat Jan gets strained to crisis through her insecurity, so he even gives up betting on horses which brought in easy money.
Released Date:
2005-04-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Serbia and Montenegro
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
(253 Reviews)
Director:
Vladan NikolicA narrator introduces several characters as we watch events unfold from various vantages: Vanya is a Yugoslavian, adrift after his country's breakup. He's a hitman, now in New York. Anna is a physician, European, in New York after volunteer work in Bosnia. Dirk is a policeman, Anna's boyfriend, seemingly on temporary leave. Vanya's on what's to be a simple job, no violence, an exchange in a hotel. He arrives to find a dead body. He takes the case he's to pick up. Has he been set up? A murderer seems to be right behind him. Anna, in the hotel to see a patient, becomes his hostage while Dirk waits for her outside, ignorant of the deaths nearby. Can Dirk find Anna? What else is going on?
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