Assassin for Hire [SEP] director
Assassin for Hire
Assassin for Hire is a 1951 British crime film directed by Michael McCarthy and starring Sydney Tafler, Ronald Howard and Katharine Blake. Its plot follows a contract killer who becomes stricken with remorse when he is led to believe he has murdered his brother.
Plot.
Antonio Riccardi, a young British criminal of Italian heritage, works as a professional contract killer in order to pay for his gifted younger brother's violin lessons so that he can escape from a life of poverty and crime. A series of
Nelević as Boro, assassin for hire
- Mirjana Đurđević as Radica, Boro's wife
Production.
According to its writer and director Dragojević, the film was conceived in summer 2001 while he watched the footage of the violence at the attempted gay pride parade in Belgrade. He wrote the first screenplay draft for "Parada" in 2004 before coming back to it in 2007 after failing to secure financing for his other film project titled "1999". In that time he experimented with framing the screenplay within different genres,