Back in the USSR (film)
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Directed by | Deran Sarafian |
Written by | Lindsay Smith Ilmar Taska |
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Music by | Les Hooper Rena Riffel |
Production company | JVC Entertainment |
Release date | February 7, 1992 |
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
References[]
Categories:
- 1992 films
- American films
- 1992 crime thriller films
- Films set in Moscow
- Cold War films
- English-language films
- Films set in the Soviet Union
- Films directed by Deran Sarafian
- American crime thriller films
- Crime thriller film stubs