My Husband, My Killer | |
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Directed by | Peter Andrikidis |
Written by | Greg Haddrick |
Produced by | David Gould |
Starring | Colin Friels Martin Sacks |
Cinematography | Joseph Pickering |
Edited by | Neil Thumpston |
Music by | Peter Best |
Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
My Husband, My Killer is a 2001 Australian TV film about the Murder of Megan Kalajzich. It is based on the book of the same name by Sandra Harvey and Lindsay Simpson. [1] It stars Colin Friels as Detective Inkster and Martin Sacks as Andrew Kalajzich. [2]
Detective Inkster investigates the murder of Megan Kalajzich and the clues lead him to her husband Andrew, hitman George Cannellis, go between Warren Elkins and the killer Bill Vandenberg.
The movie was filmed over a period of five weeks [3] in mid 2000, using locations around Manly including the actual hotel the Kalajzichs owned [4] and their family home. [5]
Brian Courtis of The Age gave it a positive review saying "through mesmeric performance, taut editing and the director's sureness of touch, it grips you with all the power of a slowly unfurled murder mystery." [1]
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