The Killing of a Journalist
MovieTitle | The Killing of a Journalist |
User score | 6.7 |
Release date | Mar 23, 2023 |
Genre | Documentary, Crime |
Director | Matt Sarnecki |
Production country | Czech Republic, Denmark, United States of America |
Production companies | Final Cut for Real, OCCRP, Frame Films, WDR/Arte, Gotfat Productions |
Run time | 100 min. |
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.