Russia blocks Hollywood thriller ‘Child 44’

Russia’s Ministry of Culture and a distributor have agreed not to release a new Hollywood movie, just a day before it was to open.

Child 44, directed by Daniel Espinosa, is a mystery thriller featuring a Soviet policeman investigating a series of grisly child murders in 1953. Its stars include Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman and is out now in the UAE.

The ministry said on Wednesday that it had received complaints concerning “distortion of historic facts and wilful interpretation of events... as well as images and characters of Soviet citizens of the period.”