Summaries

A disgraced communist schoolteacher in Kyiv becomes a brutal, unfeeling serial killer. Based on the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo.

In 1984, in Kyiv, the communist teacher Andrej Romanovic Evilenko is dismissed from his position after a pedophilic act against a student. On 15 May 1984, the pedophile Evilenko begins to rape children, and then slashing the victims in pieces and eating them. The magistrate family man Vadim Timurouvic Lesiev is assigned to catch the serial killer and almost eight years later he finally captures the monster that killed fifty-five persons, most of them children and young women. On 22 May 1992, Evilenko goes to the court and on 14 February 1994 he is finally executed.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Based on the true story of A. R. Cikatilo, also known as the monster of Rostov. A. R. Evilenko is a serial killer who killed and ate more than 50 children in old Soviet Republic. V. T. Lesiev is the detective who tracks down and catches him.—Marco M. Romagnoli

Details

Keywords
  • evil man
  • murder of a child
  • human monster
  • serial murder
  • perversion
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Crime
  • Drama
Release date Apr 15, 2004
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Not Rated
Countries of origin Italy
Language English
Filming locations Kyiv, Ukraine
Production companies Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC) Pacific Pictures (II)

Box office

Budget $9700000
Gross worldwide $87760

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 51m
Color Color Black and White
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

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