I Hired a Contract Killer

(1990)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 236 votes

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance

Year: 1990

Runtime: 80 мин

Country: Finland, France

Director: Аки Каурисмяки

Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Кеннет Колли, T.R. Bowen, Imogen Claire, Angela Walsh, Cyril Epstein, Nicky Tesco, Чарльз Корк, Майкл О’Хаган

Plot

After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.

After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can't go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. But almost immediately he meets and falls in love with Margaret, a flower-seller, which makes Henri realise that his life has some meaning after all. But when he goes back to the bar to cancel the contract, he finds it has been demolished - and there's no way he can get in touch with the killer...