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In April 2007, it was announced that Ridley Scott had optioned the film rights. Fox 2000 bought the project, and in 2009, a film based on the novel was announced, with Scott originally attached as director and producer. Ultimately the film Child 44 (2015) was produced by Scott and Michael Costigan and directed by Daniel Espinosa.
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 · 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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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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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. The plot is about an idealistic pro-Stalin security officer who decides to investigate a series of child murders in a country ...
Apr 15, 2015 · Adapted from the best-selling book by Tom Rob Smith, this $50 million Ridley Scott production does benefit from strong performances and a few worthy scenes that director Daniel Espinosa ( Safe...
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. By Peter...
