It is not
often that you find a movie as good as the book. I can only name a half dozen: The Name of the Rose, Dr. Zhivago, Catch 22…
Yesterday I
watched Child 44. I have read the book by
Tom Roy Smith and it was interesting; but this movie was every bit and riveting as
the book.
I normally
don’t care for spy or war movies; but, I do tend to read stories taking place
during Stalin’s Russia. Child 44
takes place in Russia and the Ukraine where ‘there is no murder in paradise.’ A young Russian officer becomes obsessed
with apprehending a serial child killer and as a results is stripped of his
rank and, with his wife, sent to the camps.
It is a great movie and a good read.
The Ol'Buzzard
