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Kiler
Kiler (English: The Hitman) is a 1997 Polish comedy by Juliusz Machulski

Seeing the movie's tremendous success in Poland, Hollywood quickly purchased the rights to the movie, with the intention to adapt it for the American market, with Machulski (the original director) as the executive producer. However, nothing of the sort has happened since.

=Plot= The body of the known polish gangster "Gilotyna" (eng. Gilottine ) is found by the police and one of the witnesses of this discovery is young taxi driver Jerzy Kiler. The next day he is awoken by police sirens and is taken into custody by the special forces. During interrogation he finds out that in his taxi car they found the gun and they suspect that he is a well known hired kiler called "Kiler". Unable to prove that it is a mistake he is transported to jail where he awaits his trial. Thanks to his reputation he gains respect of his inmates and decides to keep on pretending to be "Kiler". During mysterious transportation he is rescued from prison by two unknown men, who later turn out to be bodyguards of one of his supposed clients Stefan "Siara" Siarzewski. Fearing for his life Killer decides to keep on pretending to be who they think he is and agrees to kill one of Siara enemies. The other person who he is hired to kill is a friendly news reporter Ewa Szańska who he met during his time in jail. Instead of killing her he reveals the truth and ask for her help in proving his innocence and saving his life. Later he goes back to Siara's house and is again asked to kill his biggest rival Ferdinand Lipski and extracting from him one half of 2 milion Columbian peso bill, the owner of those bill is able to receive a large amount of money at the one of the warehouses by the Warsaw airport. Kiler goes to try and take the bill without killing Lipski but it ends with him receving another hit, this time on Siara. Caught in a really bad situation he somehow tries to convince both gangster that he killed the other one. Together with Ewa and her camera men he fakes a news report about Lipski's death and play it to Siara who they later drug and with a professional make-up make to look like a murder victim. Unconious Siara is later shown to Lipski and thanks to this sharade Kiler receives the needed bill which he later shows to awoken Siara. Both gangsters send Kiler to reduce the money from the airport and while waiting they found out that the other one is alive, soon they fire their guns and are taken into police custody. Meanwhile Kiler takes the money and escapes with Ewa but is soon cought by the real Kiler who too is taken by the police. Ewa and Kiler are able to secure the money and are said to live very happily life.

=Cast=


 * Cezary Pazura - Jerzy Kiler
 * Małgorzata Kożuchowska - Ewa Szańska, dziennikarka "Naszej Telewizji"
 * Jerzy Stuhr - Komisarz Jerzy Ryba
 * Katarzyna Figura - Ryszarda "Gabrysia" Siarzewska, żona "Siary"
 * Janusz Rewiński - Stefan "Siara" Siarzewski
 * Jan Englert - Senator Ferdynand Lipski
 * Maciej Kozłowski -Prokurator
 * Krzysztof Kiersznowski - "Wąski", człowiek "Siary"
 * Marek Kondrat - Mieczysław Klonisz, dyrektor więzienia
 * Jan Machulski - Nadinspektor
 * Mirosław Zbrojewicz - Twardziel z UOP, w rzeczywistości człowiek "Siary"
 * Paweł Deląg - Jarosław, operator "Naszej Telewizji"
 * Paweł Wawrzecki - Twardziel z UOP, w rzeczywistości "Kapiszon", człowiek "Siary"
 * Paweł Nowisz - Waldek na Cargo

=Sequel= Thanks to the movie's big popularity in Poland, only after two weeks it was decided to make a sequel called Killer-ów 2. All of the cast came back to reprise their rolea and it was set few years after the first one.

=Awards=

Złoty Klakier The award from the audience for the longest applouded movie
 * Złote Lwy 1997
 * Złote Kaczki 1998 - best Polish movie
 * Złote Kaczki 1999 - best movie on video tape

=Soundtrack= The music used in the movie came from Elektryczne Gitary album called Na krzywy ryj. They were later asked to write and record music for the sequel.


 * "Pomyłka (instr.)" (L. Paduch, J. Sienkiewicz)
 * "Kiler" (J. Sienkiewicz)
 * "Jak zwierzęta" (J. Sienkiewicz)
 * "Jesteś słodka" (J. Sienkiewicz)
 * "Ona jest pedałem" (P. Łojek)
 * "Zlecenie (instr.)" (J. Sienkiewicz)
 * "Zabić Siarę (instr.)" (L. Paduch, T. Grochowalski, J. Sienkiewicz)
 * "Co ty tutaj robisz" (J. Sienkiewicz)
 * "Piosenka dla działacza" (J. Sienkiewicz)
 * "W porównaniu" (J. Sienkiewicz)
 * "Złodziej samochodowy" (A. Korecki)