Daniel Espinosa’s CHILD 44 Trailer Starring Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman

The first trailer for the upcoming thriller Child 44 has been released, which is set in ’50s Soviet Russia and stars Tom Hardy as a disgraced secret police agent who joins forces with a general, played by Gary Oldman to track down a serial killer preying on young boys. The film is directed by Daniel Espinosa (Easy Money, Safe) and also stars  Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman and Vincent Cassel.

Child 44 opens in theaters on April 17th.

A politically-charged serial killer thriller set in 1953 Soviet Russia, CHILD 44 chronicles the crisis of conscience for secret police agent Leo Demidov , who loses status, power and home when he refuses to denounce his own wife, Raisa , as a traitor. Exiled from Moscow to a grim provincial outpost, Leo and Raisa join forces with General Mikhail Nesterov to track down a serial killer who preys on young boys. Their quest for justice threatens a system-wide cover-up enforced by Leo’s psychopathic rival Vasili , who insists “There is no crime in Paradise.”