Back in the USSR (film)
Appearance
Back in the USSR | |
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Directed by | Deran Sarafian |
Written by | Lindsay Smith Ilmar Taska |
Starring | Frank Whaley Natalya Negoda Roman Polanski |
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 - Archer Sloan
- Natalya Negoda - Lena
- Roman Polanski - Kurilov
- Andrew Divoff - Dimitro
- Dey Young - Claudia
- Ravil Isyanov - Georgi
- Harry Ditson - Whittier
- Brian Blessed - Chazov
- Constantine Gregory - Stanley