"How do you find a killer who doesn’t exist?"

2015

2h 17m

6.3(1737 votes)

Crime

Thriller

Overview

Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

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Cast & Crew

47 members

Acting

Tom Hardy

Leo Demidov

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Gary Oldman

General Mikhail Nesterov

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Noomi Rapace

Raisa Demidov

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Fares Fares

Alexei Andreyev

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Joel Kinnaman

Vasili

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Paddy Considine

Vladimir Malevich

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Jason Clarke

Anatoly Brodsky

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Mark Lewis Jones

Tortoise

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Vincent Cassel

Major Kuzmin

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Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Ivan Sukov

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Charles Dance

Major Grachev

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Xavier Atkins

Young Leo Demidov

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Karel Dobrý

Photographer

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Agnieszka Grochowska

Nina Andreyeva

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Petr Vaněk

Fyodor

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Jana Stryková

Mara

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Ursina Lardi

Zina Gubinova

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Michael Nardone

Semyon Okun

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Finbar Lynch

Doctor Boris Zarubin

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Tara Fitzgerald

Inessa Nesterov

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Josef Altin

Alexander

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Sam Spruell

Doctor Tyapkin

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Lorraine Ashbourne

Anna

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Ned Dennehy

Coroner

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Jemma O'Brien

Elena Okun

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Lottie Steer

Tamara Okun

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Barbara Lukešová

Semyon Okun's Wife

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Zdeněk Bařinka

Jora Aleksevic Andreyev

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Petra Lustigová

Zoya

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Predrag Bjelac

Basurov

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Samuel Buttery

Varlam

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Ondřej Malý

The Collector, Yury Abelman

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Ivan G'Vera

Budenny

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Václav Jiráček

Stephan

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Anssi Lindström

Alexander Pickup

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Ondřej Volejník

Cyril

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Sonny Ashbourne Serkis

Artur

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Heather Craney

Galina Shaporina

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Marie Jansová

Alicia

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Иван Шведов

Artur's Father

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Romana Goščíková

Artur's Mother

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Igor Farbak

Dimitri

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Martin Hub

Galina Shaporina's Husband

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Kristýna Leichtová

Domestic Arts Teacher

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Hana Frejková

Alexei's Mother

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Pavel Šimčík

Tibor

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Markéta Tanner

Volsk School Director, Larissa Anasova

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