Citizen X
Citizen X is a made-for-TV movie, released in
1995, which gives a fictionalised account of the Ukrainian
serial killer,
Andrei Chikatilo - who killed 52 people - and the efforts of detectives in the
Soviet Union to capture him. The film was directed by Chris Gerolmo, was based on a book by Robert Cullen, and stars
Stephen Rea as Detective Viktor Burakov,
Donald Sutherland as his commanding officer,
Max von Sydow as a psychologist assisting in the case, and Jeffrey DeMunn as the killer.
As well as being a crime thriller, the movie tries to make a serious point about propaganda and bureaucracy contributing to the failure to capture Chikatilo, since his crimes were not widely reported for fear of revealing that such things occurred in the "perfect" Soviet Union.
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