Citizen X is a made-for-TV movie, released in 1995, which covers the investigation of the Ukrainian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted of killing 53 women and children, and the efforts of detectives in the Soviet Union to capture him.
The film was directed by Chris Gerolmo, who also wrote the screenplay adapted from the book The Killer Department by Robert Cullen. It stars Stephen Rea as Detective Viktor Burakov, Donald Sutherland ...
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Citizen X is a made-for-TV movie, released in 1995, which covers the investigation of the Ukrainian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted of killing 53 women and children, and the efforts of detectives in the Soviet Union to capture him.
The film was directed by Chris Gerolmo, who also wrote the screenplay adapted from the book The Killer Department by Robert Cullen. It stars Stephen Rea as Detective Viktor Burakov, Donald Sutherland as Col. Mikhail Fetisov, Burakov's commanding officer, Max von Sydow as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky, a psychiatrist assisting the case, and Jeffrey DeMunn as Chikatilo.
As well as being a crime thriller, the movie depicts Soviet propaganda and bureaucracy contributing to the failure to capture Chikatilo; his crimes were not widely reported for fear of revealing that such things ever occurred in the USSR.
The movie was entirely shot in Hungary. The station where Chikatilo picks his victims is the Hatvan railway station, northeast of Budapest. The...
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