The Killing of a Journalist

Name: The Killing of a Journalist
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-04-24
Cast: Robert Fico (a.z.), Andrej Kiska (a.z.), Robert Kaliňák (a.z.)

In February 2018 Slovakia was shaken by the cold-blooded murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée. This Danish documentary coproduction unravels the tentacles of the Slovak mafia and much else besides, and this from a valuable foreign perspective.

Kuciak: Vražda novinára

Matt Sarnecki

Denmark, Czechia, United States 2022

102 min.

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A young investigative journalist and his fiancée are brutally murdered in their home in Slovakia. Their deaths inspire the biggest protests in Slovakia since the fall of communism. The story takes an unexpected turn when a source leaks the secret murder case file to the murdered 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. A reckoning awaits.

Credits

Director: Matt Sarnecki

Cinematography: Anna Smoroňová

Music: Kristian Eidnes Andersen

Sound: Marek Poledna

Editing: Janus Billeskov Jansen

Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen

Co-production: Thor Hampus Bank, Jitka Kotrlova, Zuzana Kucerova

Cast: Robert Fico (a.z.), Andrej Kiska (a.z.), Robert Kaliňák (a.z.)

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