Citizen X

Citizen X is a 1995 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 1980s, and the successive bureaucratic obstacles they consistently encounter. The film is based upon the true story of Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted in 1992 of the murder of 52 women and children committed between 1978 and 1990. 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 1993.
== Cast ==
* Stephen Rea as Lieutenant (later Colonel) Viktor Burakov
* Donald Sutherland as Colonel (later General) Mikhail Fetisov
* Jeffrey DeMunn as Andrei Chikatilo
* Max von Sydow as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
* Joss Ackland as Bondarchuk
* John Wood as Gorbunov
* Ion Caramitru as Tatevsky
* Imelda Staunton as Ms. Burakova