The Killers

Directed by Marika Beiku, Andrei Tarkovsky and Aleksandr Gordon

With Yuliy Fayt, Aleksandr Gordon, Valentin Vinogradov, Vadim Novikov and Yuriy Dubrovin

The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tarkovsky's first film, produced when he was a student at the State Institute of Cinematography.