

Child 44
How do you find a killer who doesn’t exist?
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.
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6.3/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $50M
- Box office
- $13M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- child murder
- soviet union
- murder
- serial killer
- military
- stalinism
- 1950s
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR17 Apr 2015
- PhysicalRDVD, Blu-ray4 Aug 2015
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1516 Apr 2015
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA 15+23 Jul 2015
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical (limited)1615 Mar 2015
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1615 Mar 2015
BulgariaBG
- TheatricalC17 Apr 2015
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical15+28 May 2015
DenmarkDK
- Physical1520 Aug 2015
FranceFR
- Theatrical1215 Apr 2015
GermanyDE
- Theatrical164 Jun 2015
GreeceGR
- Theatrical1616 Apr 2015
HungaryHU
- Theatrical1616 Apr 2015
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Child 44 was released on 15 March 2015.
Audience reviews
3- R5/10
Reno
10/4/2016
**A war hero who turned a police officer struggles with his departmental feud.** It is a strange title. In the narration as well it does not properly reveals, more like an approximate count of something. It is a Russian story, I mean the Russian characters and the locations. It begins after the world war two, in Moscow, a top police officer caught between the departmental politics and a case. After the his investi…
- F7/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
12/17/2022
**An overly ambitious film, but still an interesting one.** Honestly, I expected a little more from this movie. I found it on television, just by chance, but I had already heard about it, I'm not sure for what purpose, but I had the impression that it was a very good film. It's not as good as I expected, as it gets a little lost between politics and police mystery, and that ends up compromising the pace. It all…
- G5/10
GenerationofSwine
1/12/2023
Despite Oldman's involvement, it lacks all the dark charm of HBO's Citizen X. There is less of a dual examination of both the system of the USSR and Chikatilo, and the film suffers from that. It's a little less compelling, the situation that unravels seems more incompetent than meddled. And the commentary that is left is more of the "this is what life was like under communism" and less of the "this is how the comm…
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