I found this movie on DVD from my public library. The theme is not pleasant, it is the rule of Stalin and in their attempts to make their country a "perfect state" they denied that anything such as murder could exist.
Tom Hardy is grown up Leo Demidov, he had been an orphan and now was an officer in the military. There is a strange death, a young boy is found dead and the "official" reason for death was being hit and killed by a train.
But the audience knows better, we see a glimpse of a man confronting the boy then luring him away. Eventually a number of other boys were found dead.
The story is about Leo taking an interest and investigating these deaths, even if it gets him on the wrong side of his superiors. One of the dead children turns out to be his brothers.
Hardy is very good in this role, characters speaking English with a Russian accent.
Tom Hardy is grown up Leo Demidov, he had been an orphan and now was an officer in the military. There is a strange death, a young boy is found dead and the "official" reason for death was being hit and killed by a train.
But the audience knows better, we see a glimpse of a man confronting the boy then luring him away. Eventually a number of other boys were found dead.
The story is about Leo taking an interest and investigating these deaths, even if it gets him on the wrong side of his superiors. One of the dead children turns out to be his brothers.
Hardy is very good in this role, characters speaking English with a Russian accent.