Genres
Production Companies
OCCRP
Frame Films
WDR/Arte
Gotfat Productions
The Killing of a Journalist
"An attack on a journalist, is an attack on us all!"
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: Matt Sarnecki
Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen
Director of Photography: Anna Smoroňová
Top Cast
Robert Fico
Self (archive footage)
Robert Kalinak
Self (archive footage)
Andrej Kiska
Self (archive footage)
Videos
'The Killing of a Journalist' — an OCCRP Documentary (TRAILER)
