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Rating: 7.5 stars

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Mute Witness (1995)

Directed by Anthony Waller

Crime | Horror | Thriller

Overview

Billy is mute, but it hasn’t kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister’s boyfriend, Andy, Billy finds herself trapped in the studio one night and is horrified to see a snuff film being made. Billy escapes and, with the help of her sister, Kate, alerts authorities about what she saw. Unfortunately, in doing so, she makes an enemy of the Russian mafia, who funded the snuff film.

Rated R | Length 95 minutes

Actors

Marina Zudina | Fay Ripley | Evan Richards | Igor Volkov (I) | Sergei Karlenkov | Alec Guinness | Aleksandr Pyatkov | Nikolai Pastukhov | Aleksandr Bureyev | Yuriy Sherstnyov | Denis Karasyov | Olga Tolstetskaya | Oleg Yankovskiy | Nikolay Chindyaykin | Igor Ilin | Konstantin Sitnikov

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

I’ve never heard of this movie even though it’s from the mid-90s and it’s pretty good! Set in Russia and filmed largely at the Mosfilm studios in Moscow, this also hits my sweet spot of being a movie about making movies.

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