If Russian minister of culture banned the movie, it's a must to see

Rating: 10/10 (17 April 2015)

The Russian media these days is flooded with ugly anti-Western propaganda. Just a year ago a movie like Child 44 would be watched by millions of Russians without any objection from the Russian government. However, since Russia started the war in Ukraine, the ideological climate there dramatically changed. Now they are talking again about "enemies of the people" and about America that wants to destroy Russia. Russian trolls are everywhere in the western media. Read their angry reviews on this site, and you'll understand that we are dealing here with a national psychosis that overwhelmed Russia. Political issues aside, the movie shows no brilliancy at all. It's very average in quality, and has many factual errors. However, it's worth watching since it shows the Soviet human tragedy and helps American moviegoers to understand it. I give this movie a score of 10 only for one reason. If it upsets the intellectual midgets like the Russian minister of culture Mr. Medinsky and his cohorts, who work overtimes to distort and glorify the Soviet past, then the movie is absolutely successful.