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television film by Chris Gerolmo

For other uses, see Citizen X (disambiguation).

Citizen X is a ^[1] American television film which covers the efforts of detectives in the Soviet Union to capture an unknown serial killer of women and children in the s, and the bureaucratic obstacles they encounter.

The film is based upon the true story of Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted in of the murder of 52 women and children committed between and It stars Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, and Max Von Sydow. The film is based on Robert Cullen's non-fiction book The Killer Department, published in

Plot

A body is discovered on a collective farm during harvesting in A subsequent search of adjacent woods, authorized by the new forensic specialist, Viktor Burakov, turns up seven more bodies in varying stages of decomposition.

The film tells the story of the subsequent eight-year hunt by Burakov for the serial killer responsible for the mutilati