Child 44
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6.3Set 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.
Released: 2015-03-15137 minDir: Daniel EspinosaCrime, Thriller
Cast
- Tom Hardy as Leo Demidov
- Gary Oldman as General Mikhail Nesterov
- Noomi Rapace as Raisa Demidov
- Fares Fares as Alexei Andreyev
- Joel Kinnaman as Vasili
- Paddy Considine as Vladimir Malevich
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Daniel Espinosa
- Screenplay by
- Richard Price
- Based on
- Child 44 , by Tom Rob Smith
- Produced by
- Ridley Scott Michael Schaefer Greg Shapiro
- Starring
- Tom Hardy Gary Oldman Noomi Rapace Joel Kinnaman Paddy Considine Jason Clarke Vincent Cassel
- Cinematography
- Oliver Wood
- Edited by
- Pietro Scalia Dylan Tichenor
- Music by
- Jon Ekstrand
- Production companies
- Summit Entertainment Worldview Entertainment Scott Free Productions
- Distributed by
- Lionsgate (United States) Entertainment One (United Kingdom) Bontonfilm (Czech Republic) Ro Image 2000 (Romania)
- Release date
- 17 April 2015 ( 2015-04-17 )
- Running time
- 137 minutes
Key dates
- Published
- 16 April 2015
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- crime film
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Child 44
- Main subject
- Holodomor
- Director
- Daniel Espinosa
- Screenwriter
- Tom Rob Smith
- Composer
- Jon Ekstrand
- Producer
- Michael Schaefer
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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. Both the novel and the film are very loosely based on the case of Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. The film was a box office bomb, grossing just $13 million against its $50 million budget.
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