A Short Film About Killing (1988) on Netflix
Jacek Łazar, nineteen, drifts through Warsaw with a rope and a stick in his bag. Waldemar Rekowski drives a taxi. Jacek gets in and asks for a remote destination.
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Piotr Balicki has been admitted to the bar and brings his wife to a café to talk over their future. Elsewhere in Warsaw, Jacek Łazar, nineteen, has come from the countryside and wanders the city. In a public restroom he shoves a stranger into the urinals; he lets a stone fall from a bridge onto a car below; he scares off pigeons an old lady is feeding. A rope and a stick lie in his bag. Waldemar Rekowski, a taxi driver, cruises the city for a fare and pulls up as Jacek walks over and gets in.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Short Film About Killing (1988)
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- Cinematographer Slawomir Idziak agreed to shoot A Short Film About Killing only on condition that he could do it green and darken the image with all his filters; director Krzysztof Kieślowski accepted the ultimatum, telling him that if he wanted to make "green shit", it was his affair.
- In Poland executions grew rare after the early years of Communist repression and were invariably for murder; from 1969 the country hanged 183 men and no women.
