Based on a novel by Tom Rob Smith, the film follows Hardy and Oldman as two Russian soldiers who team up in order to track down a serial killer targeting young boys.
Lionsgate will be releasing Child 44 in theaters 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 Vasil , who insists “There is no crime in Paradise.”
