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  1. 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.

  2. Apr 16, 2015 · The plot is enticing, too: it’s a based-on-a-true-story murder mystery that takes place in Stalinist Russia, a nation state so perfect that, at least politically, murder simply cannot...

  3. Apr 8, 2015 · A politically-charged serial killer thriller set in 1953 Soviet Russia, “Child 44” chronicles the crisis of conscience for secret police agent Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy), who loses status, power and home when he refuses to denounce his own wife, Raisa (Noomi Rapace), as a traitor.

  4. 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.

  5. Apr 17, 2015 · Child 44’: What the Critics Are Saying. Tom Hardy stars as a member of the military police in Stalin's Soviet union investigating a string of horrific child murders.

  6. Apr 15, 2015 · It’s difficult to tell what may be the most menacing aspect of the Stalin-era thriller, Child 44: Is it the serial killer preying on young children encountered along the train tracks? The ...

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  8. Apr 21, 2015 · Child 44 was inspired by the real-life story of Andrei Chikatilo – the Butcher of Rostov – who between 1978 and 1990 murdered and mutilated at least 52 women and children in Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, which were all part of the Soviet Union at the time.

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