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'I Hired a Contract Killer' is a film directed, produced and written by the Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismki in 1990. It is a Finnish-British-German-Swedish co-production and stars the renowned French actor Jean-Pierre Laud. The film also features cameo appearances by Joe Strummer as a guitar player and by Kaurismki as a sunglasses salesman.

Plot



Henri Boulanger (Laud), a French man living in London, is laid-off from his job after fifteen years of service. He tries to commit suicide but because he continuously fails, decides to hire a hitman (Kenneth Colley) to finish the job. After making the contract he meets Margaret (Margi Clarke) and finds new meaning to life, however, he is unable to call off the hitman.

See also



* 'Tribulations of a Chinaman in China' (novel by Jules Verne, 1879)

* 'Flirting with Fate' (1916)

* 'The Man in Search of His Murderer' (1931)

* 'The Whistler' (1944)

* 'You Only Live Once' (1952)

* 'Five Days' (1954)

* 'Up to His Ears' (1965)

* 'Tulips' (1981)

* 'Bulworth' (1998)

* 'Shut Up and Shoot Me' (2005)

References




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