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Plot summary
In the Soviet Union in 1982, workers harvesting on a collective farm find a body, and forensic specialist Viktor Burakov authorizes a search of the adjacent woods, which uncovers seven more. Promoted to detective, Burakov spends eight years pursuing the person who mutilated and killed more than fifty people, most of them young. Col. Mikhail Fetisov, his commanding officer, aids the inquiry, at first quietly, and the psychiatrist Alexandr Bukhanovsky, a student of what he calls abnormal psychology, is brought into the case. Because serial murder is associated with decadent Western morality, officials fear the effect on the country's image and keep the killings out of the press, while bureaucracy slows the detectives.
Cast
- Radu Amzulescuas Federenko
- László Váradi Baloghas Peasant
- Zsolt Biroas Older Gay Man
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Citizen X (1995)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film tells the true story of Andrei Chikatilo, a Soviet serial killer. He was convicted in 1992 of killing 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990.
- The film was shot in Hungary, with the Hatvan railway station northeast of Budapest standing in for the station where Chikatilo picked his victims.
