The Twentieth Century Approaches

The Twentieth Century Begins
Directed by	Igor Maslennikov
Written by	A. Conan Doyle (novel) Igor Maslennikov Yuri Veksler
Produced by	Lenfilm
Starring	Vasily Livanov Vitaly Solomin Rina Zelyonaya Borislav Brondukov Boris Klyuyev Innokenti Smoktunovsky
Cinematography	Dmitri Dolinin Vladimir Ilyin
Music by	Vladimir Dashkevich
Distributed by	Lenfilm Gosteleradio
Release date	1986 (1986)
Running time	102 minutes (in 2 parts)
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Twentieth Century Approaches (Russian: Двадцатый век начинается) is a 1986 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories about Sherlock Holmes. It is the fifth film in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson film series directed by Igor Maslennikov.

The film is based on four stories by Conan Doyle – "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Adventure of the Second Stain", "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans", "His Last Bow".

Cast

• Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes
• Vitaly Solomin as Dr. Watson
• Rina Zelyonaya as Mrs. Hudson (uncredited)
• Borislav Brondukov as Inspector Lestrade (voiced by Igor Yefimov)
• Boris Klyuyev as Mycroft Holmes
• Innokenti Smoktunovsky as Prime Minister Lord Thomas Bellinger
• Aleksandr Romantsov as Sir Trelawney Hope, European Minister
• Yelena Safonova as Lady Hilda Trelawney-Hope
• Larisa Guzeyeva as Ma'am Anry Furnie
• Viktor Koretsky
• Yevgeni Platokhin
• Yekaterina Zinchenko as Mrs. Watson
• O. Aksenov
• B. Velichko
• Konstantin Vorobyov
• Vladimir Kalish
• Arkadi Koval
• Mikhail Morozov as Smith
• Vladimir Tatosov
• Leonid Kuravlyov as Von Bork (uncredited)

External links

• The Twentieth Century Approaches at IMDb