Child 44 (film)
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| Directed by | Daniel Espinosa |
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| Screenplay by | Richard Price |
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Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith |
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| Music by | Jon Ekstrand |
| Cinematography | Oliver Wood |
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| Distributed by | Summit Entertainment/Lionsgate |
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137 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Box office | $13 million |
Child 44 is a 2015 British-American 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 to mostly negative reviews, and bombed at the box office. Both the novel and the film are very loosely based on the case of Andrei Chikatilo, the Soviet serial killer portrayed in the earlier film Citizen X.
In 1933, a child (Xavier Atkins) orphaned during the Ukrainian Holodomor runs away from his orphanage and is taken in by a Red Army unit and adopted by its kindly commander (Mark Lewis Jones), who gives him the name Leo Demidov. In 1945, now a sergeant with the unit, Leo (Tom Hardy) becomes an icon across the Soviet Union when he is photographed planting the Soviet flag atop the Reichstag in Berlin. He becomes a Hero of the Soviet Union.
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