[2] Gregori, who operates as the patriarch to a "family" of child assassins, adopts Alexander after seeing his mother, Susanna, without a partner at a hospital.

Gregori tells the children the world is full of terrible men which is why they must carry out their missions.

Gregori teaches the children to put earplugs in during assassinations to protect their ears from the gunshot.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Well-acted and suitably chilling, Partisan is a dark drama whose confident craft may offer enough for some viewers to look past its flaws.

"[6] On Metacritic, the film received a rating of 50 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".