Child 44

Year: 2015

Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA, Russia

Tagline: How do you find a killer who doesn't exist?  »

Plot: 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 where supposedly this sort of crime doesn't exist. The state would not hear of the existence of a child murderer let alone a serial killer. He gets demoted and exiled but decides, with just the help of his wife, to continue pursuing the case.Based on the first of a trilogy by Tom Rob Smith and set in the Stalin era of the Soviet Union. During Stalin';;;s rule of the Soviet Union in the early 1950s, disgraced Ministry of State Security Agent Leo Demidov uncovers a strange and brutal series of child murders by a serial killer who everyone claims does not exist because it is Soviet doctrine that it is capitalism, not communism which creates serial killers. The state would not hear of the existence of a child murderer let alone a serial killer. He gets demoted and exiled but decides, with just the help of his wife, to continue pursuing the case.A disgraced member of the military police investigates a series of nasty child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union.

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