The first directorial experience of Andrei Tarkovsky and Alexander Gordon. A screen
version of Earnest Hemingway’s short story of the same name. Two young men clad
in long black overcoats and wide-brimmed hats appear in a cafe of a backwater
American town. Soon it becomes known that the strange guys are waiting for the
arrival of the Swede Ole Anderson, who comes to the cafe at six sharp. They have an
order to kill him…