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2003 · 60 mins · Russian
Starring
Irina Nikitina, Alexandra Batrumova, Andrey Iskanov, Alexandr Shevchenko, Svyatoslav Iliyasov, Victor Silkin

An assassin known as Hitman suffers a crushing headache and chooses an extreme cure: driving nails into his skull. This brutal act begins a spiral of self‑destruction, ending in graphic, unsettling images of blood and offal. The film progresses through three color‑coded phases, each heightening the visual delirium with meticulous use of hue and texture, delivering a hallucinatory, acid‑tinted debut.

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