The Killers Word Search Puzzle – Search Characters, Actors and Actresses. Word Search Puzzle Solver. The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway written in 1927. It was Tarkovsky's first film produced when he was a student at the State Institute of Cinematography. Find out the following actor, actress, character names, and other movie-related words hidden in this word search puzzle based on this movie.. This includes identifying and searching for words that are related to : Yuli Fait, Vadim Novikov, Yuriy Dubrovin, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vasiliy Shukshin, Aleksandr Gordon, Valentin Vinogradov .