死刑  Казнь

Like Fr
 itz Lang, David  Fi ncher or Bo
ng Joon Ho bef ore him, talented debut filmm aker Lado Kv
ataniya us es th e concept of police det
ect

ive vs serial
 killer for an excitingly stylis ed, ma 
cabre and haunt
ing n ar 
rative, t hat ultim ately re
volves aro
und t he identity of an era in this case, the late 1980s S
oviet Union
. With Glasnost  an  d the end of commu
nist ru le
,

t he West  also learned of the (unsurpr  ising) fact that there were s erial

 killers in R 
ussia too –  the most notorious 
ca
se  prob ab ly t  hat of 
Andrei C hikat
ilo, nickn amed t he Rosto v Rippe r, or  the Russ

ian H
annibal Lecter.                
                
          
                           
 Ba sed on these and many other 
sou rces, Kvataniya and screenwrite
r Olga 
Gor odetskaya constructed an immers
ive psychological puzzle,  jumping back and forth in time,
to reveal  ever n  ew- pos sible motives for the acti ons of
a ll t he protagonists. It all s tart

s in 1990, w hen De tective
 Issa Davydov  i s celebrating his promotion and recei ves a call, reporting a crime tha t looks precisely like t  he

ones of the serial k iller
 that he famo usly captured  some ye ars before ...