Mute Witness Movie Review 1995

Low-budget British thriller, lensed in Moscow film studio, about U.S. filmers making a cheap thriller in Moscow film studio. Billy (Sudina) is the mute make-up artist of the title who, returning to the studio for a forgotten item, witnesses some of the crew shooting a snuff film with a real-life stabbing. First-timer Waller mocks both thriller genre and film biz, sometimes relying on, rather than spoofing, cliched elements. Highlight is 20-minute long chase scene with the killers pursuing Billy in the cavernous studio. Guinness makes a surprise appearance in a cameo.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 100 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Mystery & Suspense, Physical Problems, Filmmaking, Russia/USSR, Moscow, Trapped with a Killer!

Screenplay

Anthony Waller

Cast

Marina Sudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards, Oleg (Yankovsky) Jankowsky, Igor Volkow, Sergei Karlenkov

Cinematography

Egon Werdin

Director

Anthony Waller

Music

Wilbert Hirsch

Other

Alec Guinness

Producer

Alexander Buchman, Norbert Soentgen, Anthony Waller, Richard Claus, Sony Pictures Classics