Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya
Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter. Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...
主演:艾丽·拉特,A·J·库克,迈克尔·兰德斯,大卫·佩特考,詹姆斯·柯克,琳达·博伊德,基冈·康纳·特雷西,乔纳森·切里,特伦斯·卡森,贾斯蒂娜·马查多,托尼·托德,莎拉·卡特,亚利桑德罗·雷,肖恩·西珀斯,安德鲁·爱尔莱,克里斯蒂娜·杰斯特泽姆布斯卡,艾琳·佩德,诺尔·费舍,贝妮塔·夏,阿伦·道格拉斯,埃里克·李塞德,伊妮德·雷伊·亚当斯,薇娜·苏德,达西·劳瑞,John R. Taylor,奇尔顿·克兰,Klodyne Rodney,凯姆·科罗宁