I Hired a Contract Killer
| I Hired a Contract Killer | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Aki Kaurismäki |
| Written by | Aki Kaurismäki |
| Produced by | Aki Kaurismäki |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Timo Salminen |
| Edited by | Aki Kaurismäki |
Production companies |
|
| Distributed by | Finnkino |
Release dates |
|
Running time | 79 minutes[1] |
| Countries |
|
| Language | English |
| Budget | £800,000[2] |
I Hired a Contract Killer is a film directed, produced and written by the Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki in 1990. It is a Finnish-British-German-Swedish co-production and stars the renowned French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud. The film also features cameo appearances by Joe Strummer as a guitar player[3] and by Kaurismäki as a sunglasses salesman.
Plot
Henri Boulanger (Léaud), a French man living in London, is laid-off from his job after fifteen years of service. He tries to commit suicide but because he continuously fails, decides to hire a hitman (Kenneth Colley) to finish the job. After making the contract he meets Margaret (Margi Clarke) and finds new meaning to life, however, he is unable to call off the hitman.
See also
- Tribulations of a Chinaman in China (novel by Jules Verne, 1879)
- Flirting with Fate (1916)
- The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)
- The Whistler (1944)
- You Only Live Once (1952)
- Five Days (1954)
- Up to His Ears (1965)
- Tulips (1981)
- Bulworth (1998)
- Shut Up and Shoot Me (2005)
References
- ^ "I Hired a Contract Killer". British Board of Film Classification.
- ^ "Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 24.
- ^ "Joe Strummer keeps busy since Clash split". The Joe Strummer Resource. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
External links
- I Hired a Contract Killer at IMDb
- I Hired a Contract Killer at AllMovie
- I Hired a Contract Killer at the British Board of Film Classification
- Template:BFI
- I Hired a Contract Killer at Elonet (in Finnish)
- I Hired a Contract Killer at Rotten Tomatoes
- I Hired a Contract Killer at the Swedish Film Institute Database
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
 | This article about a 1990s comedy-drama film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article related to Finnish film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |