A mute make-up artist working on a slasher movie being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder, and must escape capture.A mute make-up artist working on a slasher movie being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder, and must escape capture.A mute make-up artist working on a slasher movie being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder, and must escape capture.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 3 nominations
- Billy Hughes
- (as Marina Sudina)
- Larsen
- (as Oleg Jankowskij)
- Lyosha
- (as Sergej Karlenkov)
- The Reaper
- (as Mystery Guest Star)
- Wartschuk
- (as Alexander Piatkov)
- Janitor
- (as Nikolai Pastuhov)
- Strohbecker
- (as Alexander Buriev)
- Mitja
- (as Valeri Barahtin)
- Inspector Pekar
- (as Nikolai Chindjaikin)
- Officer Mlekov
- (as Vasheslav Naumenko)
- Victim
- (as Larisa Husnolina)
- Fake policeman
- (as Denis Karasiov)
- Fake policeman 2
- (as Igor Iljin)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWriter, Producer, and Director Anthony Waller met Sir Alec Guinness quite by chance in Hamburg in 1985, where he asked him if he was interested in doing a one-scene cameo. To his surprise, Guinness said he'd be delighted and that he would do it for free. The problem was that Guinness was fully booked for the next eighteen months, so Waller suggested they shoot the scene the following morning in an underground car park. Guinness readily agreed and, true to his word, took no payment.
- GoofsWhen Karen is holding the gun inside Billy's apartment, it suddenly disappears from her hand. A few moments later, it appears in Andy's hand.
- Quotes
Billy Hughes: Hello, this is Billy Hughes speaking. This is a digital voice computer. Please have patience and I will answer.
Telephone operator's voice: Hello? You English?
Billy Hughes: My name is Billy Hughes.
Telephone operator's voice: Yes. What do you want, please? Hello?
Billy Hughes: Help. Intruder.
Telephone operator's voice: I no understand. Sorry.
Billy Hughes: Bad man want to kill me.
Telephone operator's voice: Batman? I get man who speak English, yes?
- ConnectionsReferenced in Scream 2 (1997)
Low- budget British thriller lensed in Moscow film studio . Anthony Waller's witty , action-packed thriller seldom lets up . He milks the Moscow locations and the heroine's isolated predicament for all they're worth , only Billy's sister attempts to understand her sign-language , while brother-in-law is too obsessed by the film he's directing to attend to anyone but himself . First-timer Waller mocks both thriller genre and film biz , sometimes relying on , rather than cliched , spoofing elements . Highlight is 25-minute long chase scene with the murderers chasing Billy in the cavernous studio . Alec Guinness makes a surprise appearance in an uncredited cameo who he shot 8 years earlier in 1985.
The motion picture was well directed by Anthony Waller . Filming was complicated by its coincidence with Russia's October revolution, a diphtheria outbreak, -23 degree temperatures, local mafia extortion and last minute cast changes. Despite these initial difficulties, it was sold to Columbia TriStar as a completed movie, and was distributed worldwide in all major territories, and invited to 23 festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival, Courmayeur (Audience Award), Gerardmer (Audience and Grand Jury Award), Moscow (Audience Award), Birmingham (Grand Jury Award) Sundance, Toronto and Tokyo. In 1995, Waller co-founded the Amsterdam-based, Cometstone Pictures. In 1996, Cometstone's first production was An American Werewolf in Paris (1997), which Waller directed, co-wrote and executive produced. With a budget of $22 million, the movie was an entirely European co-production, sold to Hollywood Pictures in a negative pick-up deal for a Buena Vista release on Christmas Day 1997. Further projects Waller has directed are the psychological thriller, ¨The Guilty¨ (2000), and the supernatural thriller, ¨Nine Miles Down¨ (2009). As well as the dramatized Documentary "The Singularity is Near¨ and ¨Trader¨ and most recently, "The Piper" with Elizabeth Hurley. Rating : 6.5/10 . Well worth seeing .
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- Німий свідок
- Filming locations
- Hamburg, Germany(Alec Guinness' scenes - filmed in 1985)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,125,910
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $560,048
- Sep 17, 1995
- Gross worldwide
- $1,125,910
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1