In 2005 , after watching a documentary film on HBO about the serial killer Richard Kuklinski who worked for the mafia and murdered more than 125 people from the 1960s to the 1980s , Vromen began work on '' The Iceman '' . Vromen and his co-writer , Morgan Land , read more than 1,000 pages of Kuklinski 's criminal records . On August 2012 , The Iceman was screened at the 69th Venice International Film Festival and was released worldwide on May 2013
69th Venice International Film Festival
69th Venice International Film Festival
Ariel Vromen