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Child 44

Name: Child 44
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Released: 2015-03-15
Duration: 137 min
Rating: 6.281

★ 6,3 /10 (1,841 Votes)

2015 EN 137 min

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.

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Release date

15/03/2015

Votes

1,841

Popularity

10.4

How do you find a killer who doesn’t exist?

Genres

Crime Thriller

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

137 min

Budget

$50,000,000

Revenue

$12,951,093

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

Finbar Lynch

Doctor Boris Zarubin

Tara Fitzgerald

Inessa Nesterov

Josef Altin

Alexander

Sam Spruell

Doctor Tyapkin

Lorraine Ashbourne

Anna

Ned Dennehy

Coroner

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Jemma O'Brien

Elena Okun

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Lottie Steer

Tamara Okun

Barbara Lukešová

Semyon Okun's Wife

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Zdeněk Bařinka

Jora Aleksevic Andreyev

Petra Lustigová

Zoya

Predrag Bjelac

Basurov

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Samuel Buttery

Varlam

Ondřej Malý

The Collector, Yury Abelman

Ivan G'Vera

Budenny

Václav Jiráček

Stephan

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Anssi Lindström

Alexander Pickup

Ondřej Volejník

Cyril

Sonny Ashbourne Serkis

Artur

Heather Craney

Galina Shaporina

Marie Jansová

Alicia

Ivan Shvedoff

Artur's Father

Romana Goščíková

Artur's Mother

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Igor Farbak

Dimitri

Martin Hub

Galina Shaporina's Husband

Kristýna Leichtová

Domestic Arts Teacher

Hana Frejková

Alexei's Mother

Pavel Šimčík

Tibor

Markéta Tanner

Volsk School Director, Larissa Anasova

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**A war hero who turned a police officer struggles with his departmental feud.** It is a strange title. In the narration as well it does not properly reveals, more like an approximate count of something. It is a Russian story, I mean the Russian characters and the locations. It begins after the world war two, in Moscow, a top police officer caught between the departmental politics and a case. After the his investigation ended without a result, the sacked officer gets a lifeline to begin again life in another town. But the trouble follows him when he started to investigate the children's dea…

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**An overly ambitious film, but still an interesting one.** Honestly, I expected a little more from this movie. I found it on television, just by chance, but I had already heard about it, I'm not sure for what purpose, but I had the impression that it was a very good film. It's not as good as I expected, as it gets a little lost between politics and police mystery, and that ends up compromising the pace. It all starts with a drama where an MGB agent named Leo Demidov tries to protect his wife after a political prisoner denounces her as his accomplice. The effort pays off, but it's so obv…

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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 inc…

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