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 ...
海伦·亨特,比尔·帕克斯顿,加利·艾尔维斯,杰米·格尔兹,菲利普·塞默·霍夫曼,罗伊丝·史密斯,阿兰·卢克,西恩·瓦兰,斯科特·汤姆森,托德·菲尔德,乔伊·斯洛特尼克,杰瑞米·戴维斯,扎克·格雷尼尔,派特里克·费斯克勒,尼古拉斯·萨德勒,本·韦伯,安东尼·拉普,埃里克·拉雷·哈维,亚布拉哈姆·本鲁比,杰克·布塞,拉丝蒂·休默,阿丽夏·维加,达里尔·考克斯,Ben Jackson