Durante gli anni '80 del 1900, le autorità sovietiche si mettono alla ricerca di un serial killer che prende le sue vittime in stazioni ferroviarie e fermate dei treni e le porta nei boschi.Durante gli anni '80 del 1900, le autorità sovietiche si mettono alla ricerca di un serial killer che prende le sue vittime in stazioni ferroviarie e fermate dei treni e le porta nei boschi.Durante gli anni '80 del 1900, le autorità sovietiche si mettono alla ricerca di un serial killer che prende le sue vittime in stazioni ferroviarie e fermate dei treni e le porta nei boschi.
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- 10 vittorie e 11 candidature totali
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- QuizThe characters of Fetisov and Burakov were both real people who investigated the actual Chikatilo killings, yet their ranks and positions were changed in the movie. Historically, Major Mikhail Fetisov was sent from Moscow in order to investigate the killings (in the film he is already in Rostov as a Colonel heading the militia) while Victor Burakov was a civilian forensic expert (in the film he is a Police Lieutenant) assigned by Fetisov to head the investigation. There was no Central Committee comprised of Communist Party and KGB men above the two (this was a plot device created for the film to show Soviet bureaucratic methods) and the main reason why the case took so long was that the investigators interviewed over 150,000 people trying to narrow down who the killer could be. The mistaken release of Chikatilo, and the botched blood-semen test, was accurate as it occurred in the investigation.
- BlooperThe film spans 12 years, yet Lt. Viktor Burakov's children don't age.
- Citazioni
Bukhanovsky: [to Burakov and Fetisov] Together you make a wonderful person.
- Curiosità sui creditiEpilogue: "The mistake in blood and semen analysis that allowed Andrei Chikatilo to be released in 1984 has never been adequately explained. Soviet Russia's head forensics expert has since asserted that she had discovered a rare new phenomenon--a man with a blood type of one kind, and a semen type of another. Her colleagues around the world scoff at the idea. Chikatilo led detectives to the graves of three undiscovered victims, proving conclusively that he was their murderer, and bringing the final body count to 52 dead. Thirty-five of the victims were children under the age of 17. Andrei Chikatilo was convicted of all 52 murders."
- Versioni alternativeThe 1995 UK video release was cut by 37 secs by the BBFC to reduce stabbings during the murder scenes.
Recensione in evidenza
There are some excellent comments and observations on this film. I was pleased to note the comparisons to Fritz Lang's "M" (forget the 50's abortive remake with lightweight David Wayne). The real villain is not the tortured murderer (extraordinarily fine performance by Jeffery DeMunn), taking out his sexually frustrated anger on his victims-- mostly children. He is the objective. The real villain is the stifling bureaucratic Soviet system, drowning in its own corrupted incompetence. The frustration of an uncompromisingly dedicated man (Rea in his best role since "The Crying Game"), a facile pragmatist who's willing to use the system to his advantage (Sutherland always successful in this kind of role), a hesitant, frightened but determined psychiatrist (the incomparable Max Sydow), the bumbling, boopous bureaucrat of a prosecutor (brilliant Brit actor John Wood) and the quiet, supporting wife of the driven investigator (delightful supporter, Imelda Staunton). This is one damn fine film. Its darkness and bleakness are supported by the portrayal of a corrupt, incompetent system which works against success. The is no need to dip into gore-laden slice 'n dice sensationalism that has characterized so many recent films. Gore is present-- it's a ghastly story-- but it adds to the depicting of a pathologically twisted human being. The success of the story is precisely that: these were acts perpetrated by a person, a human like you or I. Where you and I choose to vent our frustration by reasonable means, Chikatilo took his anger out on the most innocent and vulnerable of us, our children. The superb premise of this story is made manifest by an equally superb cast of excellent actors. --sadly, I note that our Australian friend didn't like the speech and no doubt would have preferred to hear them speaking in Aussie dialect. Well, too bad. This fine film sure worked for me and everyone else I've talked with who has seen it.
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