Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter. Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...
安东尼·巴容,拉斐尔·奎纳德,加拉泰亚·贝露琪,多米尼克·雷蒙,伯纳德·布兰卡恩,Nathan Le Graciet,梅兰妮·马丁内兹,迈克·雷勒斯,马蒂厄·阿米利安,埃维莉娜·皮蒂,卡德尔·布阿拉加,玛莉索尔·佛塔德,蒂伯特·巴雅德,玛雅·丹内伊,汤米·李·巴克,费萨尔·德杰杜伊,安东尼·罗德里格兹,维克托·格里特萨斯,乔安·亚当,格里高利·科斯特卡德