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The mid-1980s, Kyiv, Ukraine, which back when was still a part of the USSR: Evilenko (Malcolm McDowell), a school teacher, is fired from his job for trying to rape a 11 year old girl - but he, a glowing communist, manages to use this to climb up the career ladder and become a member of the KGB, as with the system starting to crumble under Mikhail Gorbachev, enthusiastic partymembers like Evilenko are in hot demand, no matter their backstpry. And while working for the KGB and travelling all over the country, Evilenko has made it his habit to ... rape and murder children, cut their bodie apart and eat parts of them. Of coujrse, since his murders happen all across the large country and he's clever enough to not leave any too obvious clues, he gets away with this for years before anyone is even able to connect the dots. It's only very eventually that Vadim Lesiev (Marton Csokas), an old-school communits like Evilenko, is even tasked with searching for a serial killer as a special investigator. But he has little to go on, and for quite some time, Evilenko manages to use his KGB connections to obscure his tracks. In his desperation, Lesiev hires a psycho-analyst, Richter (Ronald Pickup), to give him pointers. Richter does more than just that, he has found out Evilenko long before the police even know about his existence - ony he doesn't share his knowledge with the police but has his own, dangerous agenda ...

Now one thing up front, Evilenko isn't as violent as my synopsis makes it sound, fortunately most of the violence agains children is kept off-screen. And that said, Evilenko is actually a darn fine movie, one that blends serialkiller cinema with whodunnit and political thriller tropes in a very unforced way and manages to tell a pretty engaging and at times very disturbing tale at a brisk yet not rushed pace. And with a first rate cast led by the always dependable Malcolm McDowell, this has turned out to be a very worthwhile cinematic experience.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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