The Killing of a Journalist

Aug 23, 2022

1h 40m

★ 7.1

"An attack on a journalist is an attack on us all!"

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Crime

Production Companies

Final Cut for Real

OCCRP

Frame Films

WDR/Arte

Gotfat Productions

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Cast

Self (archive footage)

Robert Fico

Self (archive footage)

Robert Kalinak

Self (archive footage)

Andrej Kiska

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