Director: Raymond St-Jean
Set against the grey docks and back rooms of Montreal in 1979, Dusk for a Hitman follows a contract killer whose loyalty to the mob that made him starts to crack under police pressure.
What is Dusk for a Hitman about?
Donald Lavoie has spent years carrying out killings for Claude Dubois, the man running organized crime in Montreal's South-West. When Dubois assigns him a volatile new recruit, Serge Rivard, to mentor, the pairing goes wrong fast: a job meant to be quiet turns into a double killing that draws far more attention than either man wants. Lavoie's connections keep him out of a courtroom for the moment, but Detective Sergeant Roger Burns has other plans. Rather than chase another conviction that slips away, Burns starts working an angle aimed at turning Lavoie against the organization he has served his whole career. The film moves between the mechanics of the killings themselves and the slower, quieter pressure of an investigator patiently waiting for a crack to appear.
Cast & crew
Éric Bruneau anchors the film as Lavoie, playing him less as a movie tough guy and more as a man running out of road. Benoît Gouin brings a controlled menace to Claude Dubois, while Sylvain Marcel's Detective Burns provides the steady counterweight on the law-enforcement side. Rose-Marie Perreault and Simon Landry-Désy round out a cast that leans into period-accurate texture rather than genre theatrics.
Context & significance
Director Raymond St-Jean builds the film around a real chapter of Quebec organized-crime history, using 1979 Montreal as more than backdrop — the fading industrial waterfront and the awkward cooperation between rival units of law enforcement both shape how the plot unfolds. At 105 minutes, the pacing favors procedure and character pressure over shootouts.
Where & how to watch
Dusk for a Hitman streams on K-Time with a free account login, presented with Persian dubbing and subtitles so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the Montreal underworld story in their own language, alongside the rest of K-Time's crime and thriller catalog for the diaspora.