Crime
Thriller
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.
Directors
Tom Hardy
Leo Demidov
Gary Oldman
General Mikhail Nesterov
Noomi Rapace
Raisa Demidov
Fares Fares
Alexei Andreyev
Joel Kinnaman
Vasili
Paddy Considine
Vladimir Malevich
Jason Clarke
Anatoly Brodsky
Mark Lewis Jones
Tortoise
Vincent Cassel
Major Kuzmin
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Ivan Sukov
Charles Dance
Major Grachev
Xavier Atkins
Young Leo Demidov
Karel Dobrý
Photographer
Agnieszka Grochowska
Nina Andreyeva
Petr Vaněk
Fyodor
Jana Stryková
Mara
Ursina Lardi
Zina Gubinova
Michael Nardone
Semyon Okun
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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 incompetent with this version, and that is, I think, doing them a bit of a disservice.
On the other hand, I doubt one would see either criticism if it were made today, so...take what you can get.
GenerationofSwine12 Jan, 2023
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