Back in the USSR (film)
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Directed by | Deran Sarafian |
Written by | Lindsay Smith Ilmar Taska |
Produced by | Lindsay Smith Ilmar Taska |
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Cinematography | Yuri Neyman |
Edited by | Ian Crafford |
Music by | Les Hooper Rena Riffel |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | USA |
Languages | English Russian |
Box office | $501,036 (USA) |
Back in the USSR is a 1992 American thriller film directed by Deran Sarafian and starring Frank Whaley, Natalya Negoda and Roman Polanski. Written and produced by Ilmar Taska and Lindsay Smith.
Plot
[edit]Set in Moscow during the last years of the Soviet Union, with Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika in full swing, the film follows Archer Sloan, a young American student from Chicago, who arrives hoping to sample the delights of Moscow, but runs into a number of people interested in stolen art works.[1]
Cast
[edit]- Frank Whaley as Archer Sloan
- Natalya Negoda as Lena
- Roman Polanski as Kurilov
- Andrew Divoff as Dimitro
- Dey Young as Claudia
- Ravil Isyanov as Georgi
- Harry Ditson as Whittier
- Brian Blessed as Chazov
- Constantine Gregory as Stanley
- Boris Romanov as father Pyotr
- Vsevolod Safonov as Ivan
- Yuri Sarantsev as concierge
- Oleg Anofriyev as taxi driver