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  • Director: Chris Gerolmo
  • AMG Rating: starstarstar
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Movie Type: Police Detective Film, Docudrama
  • Themes: Serial Killers, Murder Investigations
  • Main Cast: Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland
  • Release Year: 1995
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: R

Plot

Stephen Rea stars as a relentless Russian investigator in this made-for-cable thriller. Based on an actual case, this taut film tells the story of Burakov (Rea), a Russian forensic pathologist assigned to track down a brutal serial killer who is targeting young drifters. The nature of the assignment takes its toll on Burakov's personal life, as he tracks the killer for years despite the red-tape and bureaucracy of the Soviet state. Nominated for several awards overall that year, Donald Sutherland won an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for his co-starring role as Rea's supportive superior, Fetisov. The movie was filmed in Hungary. ~ Bernadette McCallion, All Movie Guide

Cast

Joss Ackland - Bondarchuk; Andras Balint - Ignatiev; Geza Balkay - Procurator; Ion Caramitru - Tatevsky; Jeffrey DeMunn - Chikatilo; Ralph Nossek - Dunenkov; Stephen Rea - Burakov; Tusse Silberg - Mrs. Chikatillo; Imelda Staunton - Mrs. Burakova; Donald Sutherland - Fetisov; Max von Sydow - Bukhanovsky; Miklos B. Szekely - Older Partner; Chris Gerolmo - Militiaman; John Wood - Gorbunov; Murray Ewan - Office Manager; Zoltan Gera - Doctor; Simon Gevai - Hanging Boy; Czeslaw Grocholski - Ivanov; Istvan Hunyadkurthy - Drunk Father; Gyorgy Miklosy - Constable; Denes Ujlaky - Farmer; Mihaly Szabados - Kid Militiaman

Credit

Lorand Javor - Art Director, Joyce Nettles - Casting, Maria Hruby - Costume Designer, Chris Gerolmo - Director, William C. Goldenberg - Editor, Randy Edelman - Composer (Music Score), Jozsef Romvari - Production Designer, Robert Fraisse - Cinematographer, Timothy Marx - Producer, Chris Gerolmo - Screenwriter

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Citizen X
Directed by Chris Gerolmo
Produced by Timothy Marx
Robert Stone
Webster Stone
Written by Robert Cullen
Chris Gerolmo
Starring Stephen Rea
Donald Sutherland
Max von Sydow
Jeffrey DeMunn
Joss Ackland
John Wood
Radu Amzulescu
Imelda Staunton
Music by Randy Edelman
Cinematography Robert Fraisse
Editing by William Goldenberg

Citizen X is a made-for-TV movie, released in 1995, which covers the investigation of the Ukrainian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted of killing 53 women and children, and the efforts of detectives in the Soviet Union to capture him.

The film was directed by Chris Gerolmo, who also wrote the screenplay adapted from the book The Killer Department by Robert Cullen. It 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 psychiatrist assisting the case, and Jeffrey DeMunn as Chikatilo.

As well as being a crime thriller, the movie depicts Soviet propaganda and bureaucracy contributing to the failure to capture Chikatilo; his crimes were not widely reported for fear of revealing that such things ever occurred in the USSR.

Production

The movie was entirely shot in Hungary. The station where Chikatilo picks his victims is the Hatvan railway station, northeast of Budapest. The smaller, arched train shelter scene was shot in Nagymaros. Several other scenes were shot in the Gödöllő Railway Station.

Awards

  • CableACE Awards
    • Best Movie or Miniseries
    • Best Supporting Actor in a Movie or Miniseries (DeMunn)
  • Edgar Awards
    • Best TV Feature or MiniSeries (Gerolmo)
  • Emmy Awards
    • Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special (Sutherland)
  • Golden Globe Awards
    • Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV (Sutherland)

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