Evilenko Movie
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In 1984, in Kiev, the communist teacher Andrej Romanovic Evilenko is dismissed from his position after a pedophilic act against a student. On 15 May 1984, the pedophile Evilenko begins to rape children, and then slashing the victims in pieces and eating them. The magistrate family man Vadim Timurouvic Lesiev is assigned to catch the serial killer and almost eight years later he finally captures the monster that killed fifty-five persons, most of them children and young women. On 22 May 1992, Evilenko goes to the court and on 14 February 1994 he is finally executed.
| Malcolm McDowell | Andrej Romanovic Evilenko |
| Marton Csokas | Vadim Timurouvic Lesiev |
| Ronald Pickup | Aron Richter |
| Frances Barber | |
| John Benfield | |
| Eugenia Gandij | |
| Ihor Ciszkewycz | Novikov |
| Fabrizio Sergenti Castellani | Tabakov |
| Vladimir Levizkiy | Frolov |
| Alexei Chadyuk | Captain Ramenskij |
| Viktor Gluskov | Nikitin |
| Ostap Stupka | Doctor Amitrin |
| Vernon Dobtcheff | Bagdasarov |
| Adrian McCourt | Surinov |
| Romana Pollak | Irina Zubova |
| David Grieco |
6.10 out of 10 (1013 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Does not compare to Citizen X
posted on 24 May 2009This is the true story of citizen Chikatilo, a serial killer on the loose in former Russia and the man who brought him in, detective Vadim Timorovic Lesiev.McDowell plays his role as a creepy killer very well, but the rest of the movie can't keep up with his performance.This story has been told before in the movie Citizen X from director Chris Gerolmo, and in my opinion so much better. Although detective Lesiev is called Burakov in this version of the story, Stephen Rea plays this role very well. You can feel his frustration fighting against a corrupt and unwilling system. The part of Chikatilo is played by Jeffrey DeMunn and he does a great job. His performance of the warn out factory worker with a deadly secret, is so much more believable than the monster McDowell portrays in Evilenko.Besides that, Citizen X can support on a great cast (Donald Sutherland, Joss Ackland, Max von Sydow, John Wood) and has something that Evilenko lacks: a good script!
Awful...Awful....Awful
posted on 12 Apr 2009I seldom vote a movie so low ....this got a 2 from me. I was sooo disappointed! The real story is soooooo much more interesting.Why on earth the writer / director felt the need to take a real life story and then wrap it up in fictionalized nonsense is beyond me.Imagine a story like in the movie Downfall about the last days in Hitler's bunker. As brilliant a movie as could be made. Imagine that instead of Hitler, it chronicled the downfall of a Mr. Hilter, a bad fictional character. Further imagine that what actually happened was modified to make a different story. Who cares about a mythical Mr Hilter an his stupid story when you have the horror of the story of Hitler and what his last days were. This is as bad an idea as what I can possibly imagine! This movie is not about the mass murderer Andrei Chikatilo. This is about a Mr.Evilenko (Mr. Hilter) If you want to see a much better movie about Chikatilo see Citizen X.Sorry but this is pure trash (and I liked The Adventurers and Caligula)!
Disgusting Sick Monster
posted on 08 Apr 2009In 1984, in Kiev, the communist teacher Andrej Romanovic Evilenko (Malcolm McDowell) is dismissed from his position after a pedophilic act against a student. On 15 May 1984, the pedophile Evilenko begins to rape children, and then slashing the victims in pieces and eating them. The magistrate family man Vadim Timurouvic Lesiev (Marton Csokas) is assigned to catch the serial killer and almost eight years later he finally captures the monster that killed fifty-five persons, most of them children and young women. On 22 May 1992, Evilenko goes to the court and on 14 February 1994 he is finally executed."Evilenko" is a very impressive movie, based on the true story of the serial-killer Evilenko from Soviet Union that recalls a darker and scarier Dr. Hannibal Lecter of "The Silence of the Lambs". The first point to highlight in this practically unknown gem is the stunning performance of Malcolm McDowell, who seems to be tailored for evil characters and is amazing in the role of a pedophile cannibal. Marton Csokas is also excellent, performing a persistent and firm investigator involved with the sick deaths and frustrated for not finding the monster. The direction of the promising David Grieco is also magnificent, keeping adequate pace and exposition of the scenes. The music score of the composer Angelo Badalamenti is outstanding as usual. In the end, "Evilenko" is a highly recommended movie that deserves to be discovered by the viewers. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Evilenko"
Don't do it!
posted on 19 Nov 2008Nothing, and I mean nothing, works in this film. The acting, the accents (you'll repeatedly see actors alternate between a fake Russian accent and their own, be it British or American), the story telling, etc..When the movie ended the first thing one of the friends I saw it with said was "Let's get out of here!" and I couldn't agree more. Evidently the same goes for the rest of the audience as most of them left before the announced Q&A with the director.The fun we had in the 30 minutes we spent afterwards going through plot holes and inconsistencies almost earns Evilenko a "2"... almost....
great movie with excellent acting
posted on 30 Oct 2008Macolm Mcdowell did a great job in this movie as Andrej Romanovic Evilenko. His one of the best actors, but he played only in a few very good movies. In this and in A Clockwork Orange, but that was ages ago. Also Marton Csokas played very good as the police officer. Do not think this movie wasn't good, due to the bad reviews. Watch this movie yourself and you'll see it's very good. There are now like 160 votes on this movie because nobody knows it. IT IS as good as citizen X, Very different story, and a much better plot. The director, David Grieco, did a great job in working out the characters. You know more about the killer and about the police men, then in citizen X. Go to see this movie and you really enjoy it. 8/10
Trash!!! A complete piece of garbage.
posted on 28 Jul 2008I started watching this movie because the story of Chikatilo is one that is horrible as well as interesting.On the DVD box it said the real story of Citizen X. Well, those who have seen the movie Citizen X will probably agree with me that this version is completely garbage. Not only is this movie stupid, the author of the book, who is also the director of the movie, just made a ridiculous story. The real "monster of Rostov" was Andrei Chikatilo and not Andrei Evilenko. And the policeman was Viktor Burakov and not Vadim Timurovic Lesiev.Don't read the book by David Grieco, but read the true story, written by Robert Cullen.
Representation of the 60thies russian serial killer
posted on 09 Apr 2008The story about the russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo that was probably one of the worst of the history, blamed of killing over 100 peoples and and even eaten parts of the body (some was children). In my opinion this movie is too slow and too much philosophical, is a story, seen from the eyes of the russian detective Vadim Timorovic Lesiev, but such an important representation is lacking of thrill and suspence even some interesting action. Here is represented as a sort of philosophical documentary. Evilenko is an important character and the intense interpretation of Malcolm McDowel probably is not enough to save this movie. Worth to see in a dvd rental.
creepy - and not in a good way
posted on 30 Jan 2008Being somewhat of a serial killer history buff, I was surprised and excited to see "Evilenko" on the shelf at Hollywood Video. Based on real-life Russian killer Andrei Chikatilo, (I assume they changed the name to incorporate the word "evil", but I don't know for sure) this movie falls short of true drama AND any type of documentary. McDowell's accent is appalling (and ever-changing), and the scenes with the children are just plain disturbing. And not in that "Silence of the Lambs" disturbing way. In a "dear god I'm watching something bordering on pornography" way. I know I'm sort of exaggerating here, but it felt really wrong, and forced. No good!!!!
Malcolm Mcdowell at his best
posted on 10 Oct 2007Well let's face it. This is in fact a great film. Malcolm Mcdowell is truly amazing. It is a sad film and not the slasher flick that I was expecting. MM is a fantastic actor. Every moment you see him in this film is quality stuff.The story is quite unsettling and that might be a good thing? Many movies these days have nothing special about them at all! This film has some great acting, great cinematography and many uneasy moments. Not too bad at all.Watch it - it's not a waste of time. Some movies are. I am looking forward to searching out other MM films (yes I know he did Clockwork Orange). Keep up the good work Malcolm.
Utter crap
posted on 18 Sep 2007I have bought the DVD, because I remembered very powerful movie about Chekotylo. The problem is that the movie I have remembered was "Citizen X", not "Evilenko". Evilenko is stupid, absolutely surreal movie, classic Italian cheap crap. McDovell tries to save the movie, but script is too chaotic and unrealistic. The story is not true even if tries to pretend to. The strangest part is the fact the move is boring too, which is really strange for mass-murder thriller. Only first 20 minutes or so are interesting, but unfortunately the boredom lasts another 100 minutes! It was so dull I was not been able to watch it to the end. Well, 2 Euros wasted (at least it was cheap). Spare your time and money - watch "Citizen X" instead.
Disturbing and ucomforable thriller
posted on 25 Aug 2007A teacher by the name of Andrej Evilenko (played by Malcolm McDowell) is fired after he tried to rape one of his young students. This first scene is truly unsettling and shocking. From there is gets worse when this communist man decides he likes to kill. Mr. McDowell does an excellent, creepy job as a real life serial killer. Now, that being said, I'm not all sure how much of the story is actually real. Its pretty believable though. All this being said, everyone who took part in the movie was great, and the acting was well done. The movie as a whole is good, but also a little too much (well, maybe not to some viewers). The movie is quit graphic and intense, but not to gratuitous so that is good. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in the story, or anyone in the cast. Other than that though, I'd say its up to whoever if they really wanna see it. I rate this 7/10 (mainly for the superb acting). (my rating) Rated R for disturbing and aberrant violent and sexual content, nudity and some language
A great, disturbing movie
posted on 22 Jun 2007Evilenko is one of those rare moments in the history of cinema, where a (nearly) perfect mix of elegance and perversion succeeds in producing an alarming portrait of the world in which we live. Acting, screenplay, direction, music and scenes, all contribute to create a realistic, dark atmosphere of decadence and inner horror. The story tells this is somewhere in Russia during the Gorbacev era. But we can locate it everywhere - everywhere there is a school, and there is a hierarchy ready to cover even the worse crimes. Malcom McDowell creates one of the most credible, disgusting and disturbing monsters ever seen on screen. Not fascinating as Hannibal Lecter, his clear character alteration is not enough to be aware of his pernicious attitude. This is the first movie of Grieco: not bad as a debut! The movie has not been really distributed in Italy, and I see the average score in IMDb is very low. I understand this is not the usual investigation movie, so it's hard to be accepted. However, I found it to be an important movie, if not really a milestone.
fascinating true story turned into a piece of crap
posted on 13 Apr 2007A few years ago, I saw "Citizen X". I vaguely remembered this great film and the horrifying story it was about when my attention was drawn to "Evilenko, the real citizen X" in the videostore. It turned out to be a big disappointment. The description on the DVD-cover is more exciting than the film itself. The story jumps randomly forward in time, leaving a lot of questions unanswered, never really grabbing one's attention. The murderer gets a lot of screen time in the first 20 minutes, so you feel like seeing events from his perspective. Clearly, he's a freak, but more in a pathetic than a horrifying manner. His ability to "hypnotise" his victims comes out of the blue near the end of the film and made no sense to me. A lot of could-be-interesting supporting characters don't get enough time to evolve beyond flat-characters.Watch Citizen X instead of Evilenko.
McDowell excels for a change
posted on 02 Mar 2007Malcolm McDowell hasn't had many roles in the past several years that one could call good, but he excels in his role here as Andrej Evilenko, Communist Party Member, school teacher, and serial killer. We begin when he's still teaching school and keeps a young girl after class, and when he tries to rape her she stabs him in the arm with a pencil and when he won't show the wound to the headmaster, he's asked to resign. Of course, he tells his wife it's all part of a conspiracy, what with Gorbachev and his weird ideas about Perestroika and all that. Thanks to his loyalty he's given a job with the KGB, supposedly, but continues on with his little escapades of preying on children. The police are after him, of course, but they have no idea who he is and enlist the help of a homosexual psychoanalyst who finds Evilenko in a relatively short time. Unfortunately the psychoanalyst doesn't have any time to report his findings prior to his untimely death. Vadim Lesiev (Martin Csokas) is the police inspector hard on the trail, and he's so immersed in the case that his wife takes their daughter and leaves, until he finds the killer. When Evilenko is finally captured the resulting interrogation gets a bit weird, as it seems that Evilenko has some sort of hypnotic powers over his victims, but in this case it's merely the inspector playing along. This is all quite well done, and compelling, but it does seem to bounce around a bit. If you can also get past the fact that all the Russians have British accents, then you'll be just fine. I will assume this is another depiction of the same serial killer as "Citizen X", which is also a good film but not for the same reasons. 7 out of 10.
Inside the mind of Evilenko, you will see the blue sky.
posted on 26 Feb 2007I vote often but rarely feel the need to go beyond that point. With that said I will keep it simple. The acting is believable, the soundtrack, compelling, haunting and delicious. The story, although altered and a piece of fiction based on fact, interesting. Performances all around are believable, Malcolm hits a definite peak with his portrayal, a career milestone. Don't expect disturbing scenes of horror, expect disturbing scenes of subtle perversion. We don't enter the mind of the serial killer, he has to let us out first. Inside the mind of Evilenko, you will see the blue sky. (comrade) Perhaps today is not the day, but I see this becoming a cult classic in the years to come. Recommended.Also recommended is the Italy only soundtrack with vocal samples from the movie.
Evil and Co
posted on 10 Aug 2006Since his fateful role in "Clockwork Orange" as Alex De Large, Malcolm Mc Dowell was doomed to spend the rest of his career playing the villain archetype (Caligula and countless B-horror movies...). Let's hope he earned enough money to help him to forget what would have happened if Stan the Man didn't choose him among 10.000 Mick Jagger lookalikes (yes, our favorite worn out handbag was approached for the role).Evilenko's the dumbest flick a director can bring forth with a subject as sensitive and hard to cope with as serial killers and paedophilia's. Not an ounce, not even the merest gram of nuance or elusiveness, D.Grieco wrecks everything with the subtlety of Red Army soldiers discovering German women hidden in a Berlin cellar during WWII. Malcolm Mac Dowell tries alone to rescue the movie from a predictable flop, to no avail. He and the late Klaus Kinski led the same kind of career, but they could only save what was worth saving.
Unwatchable mess with a brilliant Malcolm McDowell.
posted on 15 Jun 2006I saw this movie at the Natfilm-festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. I was thoroughly unimpressed. Not true, there was actually one good thing about the movie: Malcolm McDowell. His acting is superb, he can play a maniac like few others and in this movie he is positively chilling. I also loved his performance in 'The Company', another horrible movie with a few good performances. It is sad that he can't find a good movie to invest his considerable talent in. Back to the movie. The movie was presented by the director who explained, that he wanted it to be a parable on the collapse of communism and the disillusion, that brought with it. This explains, I think, to some extent what went wrong. He tried too hard. The script ended up being a mishmash of a fascination-with-serial-killers-horror-movie and a self-indulgent and trite piece of symbolism. One of the worst scenes is the interrogation scene, where the investigator confronts Evilenko and "battles with him on his terms". I don't think I have ever seen so many clichés and and so much half-digested pop-psychology forced into such an unnecessarily long scene. The dialogue is completely unbelievable and it certainly doesn't help, that it is, for the most part, delivered by utterly untalented people. Why the director chose to use Russian actors and dub them with second-rate voice actors is a mystery. Marton Csokas plays well enough, if a little wooden and the actress playing Evilenko's wife steals the frame in the few scenes she is in. Other than that the movie is a complete waste of actor wages. In conclusion, I would like to say, that I think this movie gave me an understanding for the horror Evilenko's victims must have felt. I certainly couldn't get out of the cinema fast enough.
Say it ain't so, Alex!
posted on 10 May 2006"Evilenko" is a dramatization of the crimes of Russian pedophile/serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, and the latest film to join the ranks of DTV fare such as "Ted Bundy," "Ed Gein," and "The Zodiac Killer" (among others). Like the aforementioned films, this paints a half-cocked portrait of madness undermined by inadequate production values, embellished details, and a plodding pace (there is no reason for this to crawl towards nearly 2 hours). Writer-director David Grieco brings some flair to the images and storytelling, and Malcolm McDowell is finely awkward in the title role, but the overall structure is incredibly mundane: like other films of this type, we have policemen on the trail of a mad killer; mad killer kills; police arrive at crime scene(s); killer is caught; killer is killed. Angelo Badalamenti, best known for his work with David Lynch, composed the generic, undistinguished score. "Evilenko" has the benefit of McDowell, but precious little else--overall, it's a bland, boring experience.
Is this man more famous than I realize?
posted on 29 Dec 2005Until I spotted "Evilenko" at the DVD store, I'd never heard of the man portrayed (Evilenko wasn't his real name). But it turns out that he was the Soviet Union's most famous serial killer. Andrey Evilenko (Malcolm McDowell) was a teacher in 1980s Kiev who tried to rape one of his students and got fired. From there, he started murdering children and women, all the while masquerading as someone defending communism.You gotta understand that this guy was downright sick, as the movie makes clear. I guess that this movie isn't a masterpiece, but it does a good job showing him going crazy. Probably recommendable, if only to show a certain part of history.
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mcdowell is evilenko
posted on 26 May 2009Evilenko is made extremely well, I've seen it twice now on DVD and Malcolm McDowell's towering characterization of the real Russian serial killer should be recognized as an artistic achievement. No, it's not Citizen X and that's a good thing. Where Citizen X reads like a plodding police investigation, Evilenko comes across as a searing reading of a killer's personal hell. David Greico has written and directed a completely interesting and thorough examination of Evilenko's mind and motivations. While the killings are handled dispassionately, the victims aren't one dimensional, we feel for them but Grecio never sentimentalizes them. Definitely a cut above the average serial killer film.