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Citizen X | 
 enlarge | Actors: Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Joss Ackland, Zsolt Biro, András Bálint
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 8258
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: HBOD91185D
ISBN: 0783116934
UPC: 026359118524
EAN: 9780783116938
ASIN: 0783116934
Theatrical Release Date: February 25, 1995
Release Date: July 11, 2000
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Product Description
Based on the true story of the hunt for the most savage and elusive serial killer on record. 8 years 52 victims 1 killer. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 06/01/2004 Starring: Stephen Rea Joss Ackland Run time: 102 minutes Rating: R Director: Chris Gerolmo
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| Customer Reviews: Read 77 more reviews...
 Ruthless! October 15, 2008
Gail Strumberger (Pewaukee, Wisconsin United States)
I first saw this movie on HBO, unless I"m mistaken. Have been waiting for it to come out on DVD. It's absolutely stark and fascinating. It's a Russian "Silence Of The Lambs" - good for those who love horror or murder mysteries.
Gail Strumberger
Author "Shock Therapy: Planaphobic"
 CITIZEN X June 1, 2008
Mrs. Pa Incledon
I FOUND THE PRODUCT TO BE VERY GOOD THE ONLY DOWN SIDE IS DOES NOT PLAY ON CERTAIN DVD MACHINE LIKE TEAC IT CAME UP REGION WRONG BUT PLAYED ON NATIONAL LG WITH NO PROBLEMS.
DO YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE ON HOW TO OVERCOME THIS PROBLEM QUICKLY? IN ALL OTHER WAY THE PRODUCT IS VERY GOOD. IS THERE ANY WAY TO GROUP ORDERS ONCES THEY ARE IN THE SYSTEM?
citizen x May 31, 2008
thor (joliet, il. usa)
i just think this is a great movie. great acting. good locale. i just love it.
Excellent true crime drama May 10, 2008
lexo1941 (Dublin, Ireland)
I rented Citizen X one evening when my local video shop hadn't anything else to offer. I was not expecting it to be very good, despite the casting of such heavyweight actors as Stephen Rea and Donald Sutherland. Sutherland is brilliant but erratic, while Rea is too often simply boring.
I was greatly surprised to find it brilliant. Rea's hangdog face and weary demeanour are perfect for the role of the hard-pressed forensic scientist Burakov (not a detective as sometimes stated, although he functioned like one on this case). Sutherland's feline turn as Rea's superior is one of the more subtle and fascinating pieces of acting he's done in the last few years - as Rea's character gets more and more stoical and unflappable, Sutherland's actually becomes less cynical and more hopeful as the film goes on. Max Von Sydow is wonderful as the psychiatrist whose crucial profile of the unknown killer becomes pivotal in the investigation. Some praise Joss Ackland as the bombastic and blinkered Party commissar who consistently refuses to accept that there is a serial killer at work, but I thought it was pretty much the same performance Ackland always does whenever he's playing a pompous and low-grade-evil functionary.
The real acting honours, in my opinion, go to Jeffrey DeMunn for his remarkable incarnation of Andrei Chikatilo. Blinking, stooped, bespectacled, mumbling in his rumpled raincoat, he's a harmless and dowdy shadow of a man who as soon as he's rendered his prey helpless becomes a slavering, wild-eyed, terrifying beast - and yet you can't help feeling weirdly sorry for him. Even when Chikatilo is on trial, it's almost as though he doesn't really understand why what he did was so wrong, and why people seem to hate him so much. The final line of the movie - 'Please don't turn around' - is one of the most chilling moments I've ever seen in cinema.
This film puts most American-set serial killer movies to shame. Understated, low on cheap suspense (no heavy breathing and stalking and handheld camera) and yet intensely dramatic, it's totally compelling. It incidentally demonstrates that the collapse of the Soviet Union was not, as Vladimir Putin has called it, 'the largest geopolitical catastrophe of the century'. It had to happen, if only because once you declare that your country is a place where serial killers can't possibly exist, you create the conditions for a Chikatilo to act out his obsessions without anyone having the will or the resources to stop him.
police drama March 26, 2008
B. Edwards
this was a gift to my sister who had no luck in search for it. she was surprised and loves this dvd
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