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The Killing of a Journalist
Kuciak: Vražda novináře
Denmark, United States, Czech Republic / 2022 / 100 min
Documentary
The Killing of a Journalist
Kuciak: Vražda novináře
Denmark, United States, Czech Republic / 2022 / 100 min
Documentary
When a young investigative journalist and his fiancée are brutally murdered at their home in Slovakia, their deaths inspire the biggest protests in the country since the fall of communism. The story takes an unexpected turn when a source leaks the secret murder case file to the slain journalist’s colleagues. It includes the computers and encrypted communications of the assassination’s alleged mastermind: a businessman closely connected to the country’s ruling party. Trawling these encrypted messages, journalists discover that their country has been captured by corrupt oligarchs, judges and law enforcement officials. The mafia is the government, and a reckoning awaits.
Writer / Matt Sarnecki DoP / Anna Smoroňová Editor / Janus Billeskov Jansen Sound / Marek Poledna Music / Kristian Eidnes Andersen
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