Dark Crimes

Dark Crimes (2016)

It takes a dark mind to solve a twisted crime.

Tadek, a Polish detective, becomes suspicious of a controversial author when the incidents described in his unpublished novel resemble the inner workings of an unsolved murder.

Date of release
2016-10-12
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (513)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Director
Alexandros Avranas

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: €3.8M

Dark Crimes is a 2016 crime drama film directed by Alexandros Avranas and written by Jeremy Brock. The film was based on a 2008 article in The New Yorker by David Grann titled "True Crime: A Postmodern Murder Mystery", about convicted murderer Krystian Bala who supposedly wrote a fictionalized novel about a murder he committed. The film stars Jim Carrey as a detective who notices similarities between a cold case murder and a best-selling novel. The supporting cast includes Agata Kulesza, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kati Outinen, Zbigniew Zamachowski, and Marton Csokas.

Production

Principal photography on the film began on 12 November 2015 in Kraków, Poland, wrapping up on 14 December 2015. After filming completed, Carrey kept the beard he grew for his role while presenting the 73rd Golden Globe Awards, garnering several Twitter reaction posts.

According to Culture.pl, this plus the cast and crew of the film coming from various countries indicated a re-interest in Polish cinema worldwide. Polish film journalist Darek Kuźma, writing a feature upon True Crimes' 2016 premiere at Warsaw, reported "opportunities in the rapidly developing Polish film industry, with its quality casts and crews, its variety of locations that can stand in for almost every part of the world, and its growing numbe…

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