西尔维斯特·史泰龙,约翰·利思戈,迈克尔·鲁克,简宁·特纳,瑞克斯·林恩,卡罗琳·古多尔,里昂·罗宾逊,克雷格·法布拉斯,乔治·斯科特·柯民思,丹尼斯·弗雷斯特,Michelle Joyner,马克斯·佩利希,保罗·温菲尔德,拉尔夫·韦特,Trey Brownell,扎克·格雷尼尔,维托·鲁吉尼斯,唐·戴维斯,斯科特·霍斯比,约翰·芬,布鲁斯·麦克吉尔,萝丝玛丽·邓斯莫尔,Michael Weis,Billy D. Lucas
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 ...