Cast
Oduvil Unnikrishnan Sudheesh Nandita Das
Credits
Written by: 
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Plot
An executioner learns that one of his subjects was innocent.
Sinekatalog’s take
Adoor Gopalakrishnan's drama follows a hangman who learns that a man he executed was innocent. Oduvil Unnikrishnan is powerful in a quiet, moral and haunting film about conscience, duty and death.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.2 / 10 (299 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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