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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. [4] .
Child 44 is a 2008 thriller novel by British writer Tom Rob Smith. It is the first novel in a trilogy featuring former MGB Agent Leo Demidov, who investigates a series of gruesome child murders in Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. [1]
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 · 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.
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.
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. Finding themselves exiled to a grim...
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Set 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. Daniel Espinosa. Director. Tom Rob Smith. Novel.
