Child 44 (film)

Child 44 is a 2015 BritishAmerican mystery thriller film directed by Daniel Espinosa, written by Richard Price, and based on Tom Rob Smiths 2008 novel of the same name. The film stars Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Paddy Considine, Jason Clarke, and Vincent Cassel. It was released onApril 2015 to mostly negative reviews, and bombed at the box office. The film appears very loosely based on the case of Andrei Chikatilo, the Soviet serial killer portrayed in the earlier film Citizen X.citation needed

In the early 1950s, Leo Demidov Tom Hardy is now a Ministry of State Security MGB Agent who uncovers a strange and brutal series of child murders. MGB leadership refuses to acknowledge the deaths as murders, because Soviet doctrine states that only capitalism produces serial murder. The son of Leos partner is murdered by the serial killer and during Leos investigation, his wife, Raisa Noomi Rapace, is accused of being disloyal to the state. Leo suspects that his amoral and ambitious enemy in the MGB, Vasili Nikitin Joel Kinnaman, 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.In Volsk Leo meets his new commander, General Nesterov Gary Oldman. Meanwhile, Vasili calls Raisa and attempts to persuade her to leave Leo and join him in Moscow. When she refuses, Vasili orders a local MGB man to abuse her. Raisa later admits to Leo that she agreed to marry him because she was afraid to refuse the proposal given his high rank at the time within the MGB. ........

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