Mute Witness

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Mute Witness
Directed by	Anthony Waller
Produced by	Anthony Waller/Alexander Buchman/Norbert Soentgen, Aleksandr Atanesyan/Grigori Ryazhsky(co-producer), Werner König/Pieter Lony(associate producer), Marina Kapustina(line producer), Richard Claus(executive producer)
Written by	Anthony Waller
Starring	Barry Bostwick, Kane Hodder, Kim Delaney, Musetta Vander
Music by	Conrad Pope
Cinematography	Thomas L. Callaway
Editing by	Kert Vandermeulen
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics/Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International/Columbia TriStar Home Video/LK-TEL
Release date(s)	1994
Running time	95 min
Country	USA/UK/Russia/Germany
Language	English/Russian

Mute Witness, is a 1994 thriller/horror shot in Moscow, Russia written, directed and produced by Anthony Waller. Although made in 1994, it was not released in the USA until the fall of 1995 (with the UK not seeing it till the following year). Known for having Alec Guinness in cameo as a Mystery Guest Star along with a mostly European cast, it centres around an American film crew shooting in Russia, who get mixed up in a Snuff film involving the Russian Mafia.

[edit] cast found on the Internet Movie Database

Actor / Actress	Character
Mystery Guest Star	The Reaper
Fay Ripley	Karen Hughes
Oleg Yankovsky(as Oleg Jankowskij)	Larsen
Marina Zudina (as Marina Sudina)	Billy Hughes
Evan Richards	Andy Clarke
Igor Volkov	Arkadi
Sergei Karlenkov	Lyosha
Nikolai Pastukhov	Janitor
Valeri Barakhtin (as Valeri Barahtin)	Mitja
Sascha Buchman	Alex
Olga Tolstetskaya	Actress
Denis Karasyov	Fake policeman
Igor Ilyin	Fake policeman
Oleg Abramov	Double
Vladimir Salnikov	Lab assistant
Konstantin Sitnikov	Angry props manager
Norbert Soentgen	Peeping Tom