“An' the fact is, nothin' comes with a guarantee. Now I don't care if you're the Pope of Rome, President of the United States or Man of the Year; somethin' can all go wrong.’’ Because his wife Abby prefers to sleep with his employee Ray, bar owner Marty hires the shady private investigator Visser to murder his unfaithful wife and her lover. But Visser has other plans: he collects his fee for the job and kills his client Marty instead. The trail of this murder now leads to Abby and Ray. With this hard-hitting thriller, directors Joel & Ethan Coen proved their genius for wicked, cleverly constructed plots full of pitch-black humor right from their debut film, creating a dark, bitterly angry reckoning with life in small-town America. Exciting and wonderfully evil, BLOOD SIMPLE bears the hallmarks of the Coens' quirky imagination. A film and masterpiece that became one of the cult films of the 1980s and influenced entire generations of filmmakers.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V..