Chikatilo in Film and Literature
Film
- The 1995 film Citizen X, based on Robert Cullen's book The Killer Department, portrayed the investigation of the "Rostov Ripper" murders. Citizen X starred Stephen Rea as Viktor Burakov, Jeffrey DeMunn as Chikatilo, Donald Sutherland as Mikhail Fetisov and Max von Sydow as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky.
- The 2004 film Evilenko, starring Malcolm McDowell and Marton Csokas, was loosely based on Chikatilo's murders.
Books (factual)
Four books have been written about the case of Andrei Chikatilo:
- Robert Cullen, The Killer Department: Detective Viktor Burakov's Eight-Year Hunt for the Most Savage Serial Killer of Our Times (ISBN 1-85797-210-4).
- Richard Lourie, Hunting The Devil: The Pursuit, Capture and Confession of the Most Savage Serial Killer in History (ISBN 0-586-21846-7).
- Peter Conradi, The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer (ISBN 0-86369-618-X).
- Mikhail Krivich and Olgert Olgin, Comrade Chikatilo: The Psychopathology of Russia's Notorious Serial Killer (ISBN 0-450-01717-6).
Fiction
- Child 44, a novel by Tom Rob Smith, draws heavily on the Chikatilo story. The story's events set several decades earlier, during the time of Joseph Stalin and immediately thereafter.
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