Child 44
Child 44 is a 2015 mystery thriller film directed by Daniel Espinosa, written by Richard Price, and based on Tom Rob Smith's 2008 novel of the same name. The film stars an ensemble cast featuring Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Paddy Considine, Jason Clarke, and Vincent Cassel. It was released on 17 April 2015. Both the novel and the film are very loosely based on the case of Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. The film was a box office bomb, grossing just $13 million against its $50 million budget.
Plot
During Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union in the early 1950s, Ministry of State Security (MGB) Agent and war hero Leo Demidov uncovers a strange and brutal series of child murders. However, MGB leadership refuses to acknowledge the deaths as murders because Soviet doctrine states that only capitalism creates serial killers. The son of Leo's partner is murdered by the serial killer and during Leo's investigation, his wife, Raisa, is accused of being disloyal to the state. Leo suspects that his amoral and ambitious enemy in the MGB, Vasili Nikitin, is behind the charges. Leo refuses to support the accusation and he is forced to take a demeaning militia position in the town of Volsk. Raisa accompanies him and must work as a janitor.
Cast
- Agnieszka Grochowska
- Alexander Stasko
- Amáta Skalová
- Andrea Miltner
- Anssi Lindström
- Barbara Lukešová
- Charles Dance
- Claudia Vasekova
- David Bowles
- Fares Fares
- Finbar Lynch
- Flynn Matthews
- Gary Oldman
- Hana Frejková
- Heather Craney
- Ivan G'Vera
- Ivan Shvedoff
- Jakub Frydrych
- Jan Antonín Duchoslav
- Jana Stryková
- Jaromír Nosek
- Jaroslava Siktancova
- Jason Clarke
- Joel Kinnaman
- Josef Altin
- Karel Dobrý
- Kristýna Leichtová
- Lorraine Ashbourne
- Lottie Steer
- Lukáš Jůza
- Magda Weigertová
- Marek Dobeš
- Marie Jansová
- Mark Lewis Jones
- Markéta Tannerová
- Michael Nardone
- Michal Gulyáš
- Ned Dennehy
- Nikolaj Lie Kaas
- Noomi Rapace
- Ondřej Malý
- Ondřej Volejník
- Paddy Considine
- Pavel Šimčík
- Petr Vaněk
- Petr Vízdal
- Petra Lustigová
- Petra Navrátilová
- Predrag Bjelac
- Robert Jašków
- Sam Spruell
- Sonny Ashbourne Serkis
- Tadeáš Říha
- Tara Fitzgerald
- Tom Hardy
- Tomáš Dianiška
- Tomáš Měcháček
- Tomás Valík
- Ursina Lardi
- Václav Jiráček
- Viktorie Hásková
- Vincent Cassel
- Vlastina Svátková
- Xavier Atkins
- Zdeněk Bařinka
More details
| author | Richard Price Tom Rob Smith |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Moscow Soviet Union |
| director | Daniel Espinosa |
| editor | Dylan Tichenor Pietro Scalia |
| events | Holodomor serial killer |
| genre | crime mystery thriller |
| keywords | arrest attack capitalism child murder follow force joseph stalin kill meet ministry of state security murder orphan stalin's state security train ride travel war hero work camp |
| musicBy | Jon Ekstrand |
| producer | Greg Shapiro Michael Schaefer Ridley Scott |
| productionCompany | Scott Free Productions Summit Entertainment Worldview Entertainment |
| publisher | Ro Image 2000 |
| recordedAt | Czech Republic Prague |
| theme | mystery thriller serial killer |