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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.
Apr 17, 2015 · The USSR’s main orphan in “Child 44” is Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy). His parents died in the Holodomor famine in the Ukraine in the 1930s, but he found a new family within Russian military, and was deemed a war hero when seen on newspapers brandishing a Soviet flag after the Reichstag in 1945.
Summaries. A disgraced member of the Russian military police investigates a series of child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union. Based on the first of a trilogy by Tom Rob Smith and set in the Stalin era of the Soviet Union.
Apr 17, 2015 · Child 44: Directed by Daniel Espinosa. With Xavier Atkins, Mark Lewis Jones, Tom Hardy, Joel Kinnaman. A disgraced member of the Russian military police investigates a series of child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union.
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- Crime, Drama, History
- Daniel Espinosa
- 2015-04-17
A former Ministry of State Security official Leo Demidov investigates a series of horrific child murders in Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union, only to be stonewalled by Soviet bureaucracy as he discovers that some very powerful people may not want the truth about these killings to come out.
Apr 17, 2015 · In 1950s Soviet Russia, secret police agent Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy) loses everything when he refuses to denounce his wife, Raisa (Noomi Rapace) as a traitor.
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- Mystery & Thriller
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Apr 15, 2015 · Film Review: ‘Child 44’. Tom Hardy adopts a Russian accent in this dark Soviet thriller, in which a serial killer isn't nearly as scary as the system that refuses to investigate him. Part ...
