Evilenko is a 2004 Italian film very loosely based on the Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. The story is a fictionalisation of the serial killer's life; large segments of the movie were adapted from a novel entitled The Communist Who Ate Children. The character is renamed Andrei Evilenko and the film is claimed to be based on a true story. Malcolm McDowell plays the main character. The soundtrack was composed by Angelo Badalamenti, and features a track with Dolores O'Riordan.
Plot
In 1984, in Kiev, schoolteacher Andrej Romanovic Evilenko (McDowell) is dismissed from his position after attempting to molest a student. Driven by his sociopathic urges and embittered by the collapse of the Soviet Union, Evilenko begins to rape children, and then slashes the victims into pieces and eats them.
Vadim Timurouvic Lesiev (Marton Csokas), a magistrate and family man, is assigned to catch the serial killer. For years, Evilenko eludes Lesiev and psychiatrist Aron Richter (Ronald Pickup), who is assigned to profile the killer. Almost eight years later, Lesiev finally captures Evilenko, who by now has killed 55 people, mostly children and young women.
On 22 May 1992, Evilenko goes to court and, on 14 February 1994, he is finally executed.
Main cast
See also
- Citizen X, an American film about Chikatilo from 1995.
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