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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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
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- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Tom HardyLeo Demidov
- Gary OldmanGeneral Mikhail Nesterov
- Noomi RapaceRaisa Demidov
- Fares FaresAlexei Andreyev
- Joel KinnamanVasili
- Paddy ConsidineVladimir Malevich
- Jason ClarkeAnatoly Brodsky
- Mark Lewis JonesTortoise
- Vincent CasselMajor Kuzmin
- Nikolaj Lie KaasIvan Sukov
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- Daniel EspinosaDirector
- Richard PriceScreenplay
- Tom Rob SmithNovel
- Oliver WoodDirector of Photography
- Jon EkstrandOriginal Music Composer
- Pietro ScaliaEditor
- Dylan TichenorEditor
- Ridley ScottProducer
- Greg ShapiroProducer
- Michael SchaeferProducer
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