Mute Witness

Name: Mute Witness
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Crime
Released: 1995-09-15
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Marina Zudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards, Igor Volkov, Sergei Karlenkov

She won't be silenced.

Mute Witness (1995)

Timing: 1:35 (95 min)

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Video for the film Mute Witness — Original Trailer

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Release date

1995-09-15

Country

Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, United States

Production

Comet Film Produktion GmbH, Avrora Media, Cobblestone Pictures, Comet Film, Patmos Film

Genre

Thriller, Horror, Crime

Budget

$2 000 000

Box office

$1 125 910

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Director

Anthony Waller

Actors

Marina Zudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards, Igor Volkov, Sergei Karlenkov, Alec Guinness, Aleksandr Pyatkov, Nikolai Pastukhov, Aleksandr Bureyev, Yuriy Sherstnyov
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Scenario

Producer

Alexander Buchman, Norbert Soentgen, Anthony Waller, Richard Claus

Camera operator

Egon Werdin

Composer

Wilbert Hirsch

Artist

Vladimir Posternak, Matthias Kammermeier

Audition

Noel Davis, Elena Denisova, Nina Sokol-Matsuk

Editing

Peter R. Adam
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Short description

When a mute makeup/special effects artist working on a low-budget slasher film gets locked in a dilapidated Moscow movie studio late one night, she thinks she witnesses the making of a snuff film. Thus begins a night of terror.

What's left behind the scenes

Screenwriter, producer, and director Anthony Waller happened to meet Sir Alec Guinness (1914-2000) in Hamburg in 1985 and asked if he would like to play a cameo role. Guinness agreed and even said he was willing to do it for free. The problem was that Guinness's schedule was set for the next eighteen months and allowed for no changes, so Waller and Guinness agreed to meet the following morning in the same underground parking lot. Guinness did indeed play a small scene and did not charge for it. As for Waller, the chance to include this scene in the film only presented itself ten years later.
Anthony Waller moved the film's setting from Chicago to Moscow because filming there was much cheaper.
Screenwriter, producer, and director Anthony Waller accidentally met Sir Alec Guinness in Hamburg in 1985 and asked if he would like to play a cameo role. Guinness agreed and even said he was willing to do it for free. However, Guinness's schedule was booked for the next year and a half, so Waller and Guinness agreed to meet the next morning in the same place, in the underground parking lot. Guinness did indeed play a small scene and did not charge for it. Waller included this scene in the film only 10 years later.