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Citizen X is a american film of genre Drama directed by Chris Gerolmo released in USA on 25 february 1995 with Stephen Rea
Citizen X (1995)
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Add to a movie listCitizen X is a made-for-TV film, released in 1995, which covers the investigation of the Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted in 1992 of killing 53 women and children between 1978 and 1990, and the efforts of detectives in the Soviet Union to capture him. The film is based on Robert Cullen's non-fiction book The Killer Department (1993).
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A body is discovered on a collective farm during harvesting in 1982. A subsequent search of adjacent woods, authorized by newly installed official, Viktor Burakov, turns up seven more bodies in varying stages of decomposition. The film tells the story of the subsequent eight-year hunt by forensic specialist Burakov for the serial killer responsible for the mutilation and murder of over 50 people, 35 of them below the age of 18. Burakov is promoted to detective and eventually aided, covertly at first, by Col. Mikhail Fetisov, his commanding officer and the shrewd head of the provincial committee for crime, and, much later, by Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky, a psychiatrist.Actors
Stephen Rea
(Lt. Viktor Burakov)
Donald Sutherland
(Col. Mikhail Fetisov)
Max von Sydow
(Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky)
Jeffrey DeMunn
(Andrei Chikatilo)
Joss Ackland
(Bondarchuk)
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