Child 44 Page #2

Synopsis: Based on the first of a trilogy by Tom Rob Smith and set in the Stalin era of the Soviet Union. The plot is about an idealistic pro-Stalin security officer who decides to investigate a series of child murders in a country where supposedly this sort of crime doesn't exist. The state would not hear of the existence of a child murderer let alone a serial killer. He gets demoted and exiled but decides, with just the help of his wife, to continue pursuing the case.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Daniel Espinosa
Production: Summit Entertainment
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
41
Rotten Tomatoes:
26%
R
Year:
2015
137 min
$1,314,609
Website
563 Views


Who are you working for?

Anna...

Ivanovna Akmatova.

She has a dog, which will not eat.

Mattias Borisky Rakowski.

His terrier is going blind.

I'm a veterinarian. I'm nothing more.

If you are so innocent...

why do you run?

That is a very good question.

I run because you were following me.

When you are followed, you are arrested.

And when you are arrested...

you are already guilty.

So you tell me.

Why did I run?

Do you have any idea...

what happens...

in this room next door here,

to a man like you,

when you don't talk?

A child knows what will happen to me.

- Should he cross?

- No!

- What should he do?

- Look both ways!

Yes. Good.

Because our leader loves his children,

want them all to be safe.

This is sodium thiopental.

In less than a minute,

he will only be able to speak the truth.

Okay.

Little bit more.

Wait. Wait.

Vasili, ask your questions.

Okay. I want the name of every person

passing you information

from the British Embassy.

Leo.

Leo.

- What is it?

- Someone at the door.

Where?

Major Kuzmin?

I came as fast as I could.

There's been a terrible accident.

Alexei's son has been hit by a train.

I thought you wanted

to hear it from me first.

A train?

You and Alexei Andreyevich

came through the war together,

didn't you?

Yes.

We value Alexei. And we do everything

we can to protect him.

I'm sorry, I don't follow you. You...

protect him?

The poor man must be beside himself.

He's claiming his son was murdered.

Stalin tells us that murder

is strictly a capitalist disease.

But Alexei is flirting with treason.

So you know what has to be done.

I will find someone

on the third floor to deal...

And who better to do it than you?

Done.

Your brother. Help him help himself.

- Alexei.

- Leo.

Come in.

I am so sorry.

I have been personally...

asked to share

the official report with you.

"Yesterday morning,

25th of October at 10:35,

"the body of one Jora Andreyev,

"8 years old,

"was found close by the train tracks

at 1 kilometer east of Vialki.

"He was found fully clothed.

"Further examination of the victim's

body and the witness..."

My boy was found naked.

No. He was found fully clothed.

"Further examination..."

A train doesn't undress a boy.

"Further examination

of the victim's body

"and witness testimony

show multiple contusions,

"with bruisings and lacerations

to the torso.

"In keeping with this testimony,

we believe the cause of death

"was indeed a tragic accident."

Why would a report even bother

to mention that he was clothed?

This was signed by Major Kuzmin.

He is the Department of Interior

Crimes Against the State.

5th Main Directorate, MGB.

Someone has slaughtered my son!

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Richard Price

Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, nonconformist preacher and mathematician. He was also a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He was well-connected and fostered communication between a large number of people, including several of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Price spent most of his adult life as minister of Newington Green Unitarian Church, on the outskirts of London. He also wrote on issues of demography and finance, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society. more…

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