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Did you know Edit. Trivia The film was banned in Russia shortly after receiving the screening license. Goofs Although Mikhail Nesterov is called a General, he wears only a Colonel's rank insignia throughout the whole movie. Quotes Leo Demidov : If you are so innocent, why do you run? User reviews Review. Top review. A tough watch but a brilliant job by all concerned. Child 44 isn't the movie you watch for light entertainment.

It is gritty and tough, and I found myself feeling a sense of absolute disgust for anyone and anything connected with the old school communist state in the USSR. It really makes you look at just how bad that system was and how monstrous the people were who enforced it on the general populace.

Nonetheless, the story is compelling, although sometimes the thread jumps around a bit. Tom Hardy's performance was his best ever. I think he warrants an Academy for it. Noomi Rapace was excellent - very authentic in her role. Child 44 is a dark thriller - and without giving anything away, the build up and hatred toward the serial killer really sticks you to this movie - you simply want the killer to get the most gruesome death conceivable for what he does.

Apart from the Hollywood aspect, this film depicts reality. This is how life existed under Communism and I think that message is just as compelling and important as the rest of the story - because it really depicted the terror and the suppression that millions of people lived under in the name of some douche bag's idea of "ideology". May Stalin forever lay dead and remembered for only one thing - he was a murdering asshole. Watch the film folks - I notice that the ratings were low, and I think that is an unfair assessment about the quality of this production.

Details Edit. Release date April 17, United Kingdom. Official Facebook Official site Japan. English Russian. Prague, Czech Republic. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Although Smith has set his story in an earlier time period, the s, he has not lost, but only gained levels of intrigue and suspense by choosing the worst years.

The problem for good soldier. The Soviet Union has been fertile. Get BOOK. Child When the all-powerful State claims there is no such thing as crime, who dares disagree? The Child 44 Trilogy. Tom Rob Smith's Child 44 trilogy was an immediate publishing sensation and marked the arrival of a major new talent in contemporary fiction.