Dead Man's Wire

Premiere: 24.04.2026
Duration: 1 h 46 min
Language: Original
Subtitles: Finnish and Swedish
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The morning of February 8, 1977, Anthony G. “Tony” Kiritsis, 44, entered the office of Richard O. Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun wired with a “dead man’s wire” from the trigger to the Hall’s head. This is the true story of the stand-off that took the world by storm as Tony demanded $5 million, no charges or prosecution, and a personal apology from the Halls for cheating him out of what he was “owed.”

Distributor: SF Film Finland
Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Al Pacino, Domingo Colman, Myha'la, Cary Elwes, Kelly Lynch, John Robinson
Screenwriter: Austin Kolodney