Citizen X
![]() Citizen X is a made-for-TV movie, released in 1995, which gives a fictionalised account of the Ukrainian serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo—who was convicted of killing 52 people—and the efforts of detectives in the Soviet Union to capture him. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The film was directed by Chris Gerolmo, was based on a book by Robert Cullen, and stars Stephen Rea as Detective Viktor Burakov, Donald Sutherland as Col. Mikhail Fetisov, Burakov's commanding officer, Max von Sydow as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky, a psychologist assisting in the case, and Jeffrey DeMunn as the killer. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ As well as being a crime thriller, the movie tries to make a serious point about propaganda and bureaucracy contributing to the failure to capture Chikatilo, since his crimes were not widely reported for fear of revealing that such things occurred in the "perfect" Soviet Union. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1995: 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995-2005): http://www.unesco.org/culture/indigenous/... Ukrainian: Ukrainian can mean:... Serial killer: Serial killers are individuals who, on multiple occasions spread out through time, murder victims who are generally unknown to them beforehand. Their crimes are committed as a result of a compulsion that, in many but not all cases, has roots in the killer's (often dysfunctional) youth, as opposed to... Citizen X related Images and Photos (experimental) | ~ Table of Content ~
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