Child 44 Page #3

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
571 Views


Your godson, Leo! And you do nothing?

I am sorry.

- Read the report.

- To find out what?

Someone has slaughtered your son.

- Do something!

- Nina!

Someone has slaughtered your son!

Someone has slaughtered your son!

Someone has slaughtered your son!

This is crazy.

You cannot do this.

I have men downstairs!

They can hear everything. There is a reason

why they sent me. You understand?

You have to be quiet.

They wouldn't let me see him, Leo.

- They wouldn't let me see my boy.

- Alexei, please, will you just...

- No, you tell me.

- ...read the file?

Tell me.

What should I tell her? My wife?

You tell her

whatever it takes to protect

every single body in that room.

Everybody in there, who you love,

you tell them whatever it takes.

Do you understand?

And you let him go.

Alexei, there can be

no murder in paradise.

Remember?

There's a witness, Leo.

Excuse me?

A woman.

What do you mean?

She saw that man.

She saw the man who took my boy.

She saw him.

- You have a witness?

- Yes.

- And she will testify?

- Maybe. Her windows overlook the tracks.

She saw Jora with a man.

My boy was murdered.

- You don't know this.

- I know it.

And you don't lie to me,

because you know it, too.

You know it.

I want the coroner to do a full autopsy

on the Andreyev child.

So I heard

there was a problem

with Vasili in Kimov.

I apologize.

You're only flesh and blood.

Striking a fellow officer

can bring you the kind of attention

you could live without.

But you did a great service

by talking to the Andreyevs.

Alexei will thank you. One day.

By the way,

Brodsky. Full confession.

He gave us seven names.

Six went to others.

Considering you're one

of my most thorough investigators,

I gave you the toughest nut

of the bunch.

So, you asked for a full autopsy

of that boy.

- What's his name?

- Jora Alexei Andreyevich.

- Jora?

- Da.

This one is yours.

We don't have much, as you'll see.

So you are to collect

further information.

And if Brodsky was telling the truth,

if that individual is a traitor,

you are to arrest them

and bring them here.

The usual process.

Any questions?

Raisa! Raisa!

Raisa!

- No, no, please, no.

- Please help me!

- No, no, no, please.

- Raisa!

She has no...

- What is the charge? What is the charge?

- Raisa! Raisa!

Why her?

Because she couldn't keep her goddamn

opinion to herself. That's why.

Ivan, maybe we should go

our separate ways.

Raisa.

Is she a traitor?

They have a confession.

And who took this confession?

A colleague of mine.

Could it have been manufactured?

Of course.

Do you have evidence?

No.

So what are you going to do?

If I do not denounce...

Raisa, and she is a traitor,

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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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