Evilenko
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Directed by | David Grieco |
Written by | David Grieco |
Produced by | Mario Cotone |
Starring | Malcolm McDowell Marton Csokas Ronald Pickup Frances Barber John Benfield Vernon Dobtcheff |
Cinematography | Fabio Zamarion |
Edited by | Francesco Bilotti Massimo Fiocchi |
Music by | Angelo Badalamenti Dolores O'Riordan |
Production companies | Pacific Pictures MiBAC |
Distributed by | Mikado (Italy) TLA Releasing(UK) Jinga Films |
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Running time | 111 minutes[1] |
Country | Italy |
Language | English |
Budget | $9.7 million |
Evilenkois a 2004English-languageItaliancrimehorrorthrillerfilm very loosely based on theSovietserial killerAndrei Chikatilo.Written and directed byDavid Grieco,the film starsMalcolm McDowell,Marton Csokas,andRonald Pickup.
Plot
[edit]In 1984, inKyiv,schoolteacher Andrej Romanovich Evilenko is dismissed from his position after attempting to rape a pupil. Driven by hispsychopathicurges and embittered by thecollapse of the Soviet Union,Evilenko begins torape,kill, andcannibalisewomen and children. It is hinted throughout the movie that Evilenko somehow gained the power to hypnotise his victims, which accounts for their lack of resistance and his continuous evasion of the authorities.
Vadim Timurouvic Lesiev, amagistrateand family man, is assigned to catch the serial killer. For years, Evilenko eludes Lesiev and psychiatrist Aron Richter, who is assigned toprofilethe killer. Richter eventually finds Evilenko with a little girl and manages to break Evilenko's hypnotic hold on her, but is killed by Evilenko in retaliation; although it appears to Evilenko that she is run over by a train, the girl escapes alive.
Almost two years later, Lesiev finally captures Evilenko, who by now has killed 55 people, mostly children and young women. On 22 May 1992, Evilenko goes to court, and on 14 February 1994, he is finally executed. Before his execution, two governments expressed interest in Evilenko's psychic abilities and asked for extradition of Evilenko but were denied.
Cast
[edit]- Malcolm McDowellasAndrei Romanovich Evilenko
- Marton Csokasas Vadim Timurovich Lesiev
- Ronald Pickupas Aron Richter
- Frances Barberas Fenya Evilenka
- John Benfieldas Oleg Chivadze
- Alexei Chadyuk as Captain Ramensky
- Ostap Stupka as Doctor Amitrin
- Vernon Dobtcheffas Bagdasarov
- Adrian McCourt as Surinov
- Ruby Kammer as Tonya
Production
[edit]The story is a fictionalization of the life and crimes of serial killerAndrei Chikatilo.Large segments of the film were adapted from Grieco's novel entitledThe Communist Who Ate Children.The character is renamedAndrei Evilenkoin reference to Chikatilo.[2]
Soundtrack
[edit]The soundtrack was composed byAngelo Badalamentiand features two tracks withDolores O'Riordan,"Angels Go to Heaven" and "No Way Out". It has been released in 2004 on CD digipak by Italian music labelMinus Habens Records.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"EVILENKO(15) ".British Board of Film Classification.23 May 2006.Retrieved10 July2013.
- ^"crime-mystery.info".Archived fromthe originalon 15 February 2018.Retrieved29 June2017.
External links
[edit]- 2004 films
- 2004 horror films
- 2004 crime thriller films
- 2000s horror thriller films
- Italian crime thriller films
- Italian horror thriller films
- Crime horror films
- 2000s serial killer films
- English-language Italian films
- Films about pedophilia
- Horror films based on actual events
- Films based on non-fiction books
- Films set in the 1980s
- Films set in the 1990s
- Films set in Russia
- Films set in Ukraine
- Films shot in Ukraine
- Italian independent films
- Italian serial killer films
- Crime films based on actual events
- Films scored by Angelo Badalamenti
- 2004 independent films
- 2000s English-language films