Back in the USSR (film)
| Back in the USSR | |
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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
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
- 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
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