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15/03/2015 Crime, Thriller 2h 17m
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How do you find a killer who doesn’t exist?

Overview

Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

  1. Daniel Espinosa

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Tom Hardy

    Leo Demidov

  2. Gary Oldman

    General Mikhail Nesterov

  3. Noomi Rapace

    Raisa Demidov

  4. Fares Fares

    Alexei Andreyev

  5. Joel Kinnaman

    Vasili

  6. Paddy Considine

    Vladimir Malevich

  7. Jason Clarke

    Anatoly Brodsky

  8. Mark Lewis Jones

    Tortoise

  9. Vincent Cassel

    Major Kuzmin

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Reviews

A review by GenerationofSwine
Written by GenerationofSwine on 2023-01-12
Despite Oldman's involvement, it lacks all the dark charm of HBO's Citizen X. There is less of a dual examination of both the system of the USSR and Chikatilo, and the film suffers from that.

It's a little less compelling, the situation that unravels seems more incompetent than meddled. And the commentary that is left is more of the "this is what life was like under communism" and less of the "this is how the communist system interfered with the investigation and postponed his arrest"

You can kind of taste the difference between the two, as they are both important, the cops look more inc...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$50,000,000.00

Revenue
$12,951,093.00

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