Back in the USSR ( Back in the U.S.S.R. )

Back in the USSR (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Back in the U.S.S.R.
Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Mono )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
87 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1992 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Deran Sarafian

Written By:
Deran Sarafian
Lindsay Smith
Ilmar Taska

Actors:
Frank Whaley ..... Archer
Natalya Negoda ..... Lena
Roman Polanski ..... Kurilov
Andrew Divoff ..... Dimitro
Dey Young ..... Claudia
Ravil Issyanov ..... Georgi
Harry Ditson ..... Whittier
Brian Blessed ..... Chazov
Constantine Gregory ..... Stanley
Aleksei Yevdokimov ..... Mikhail (as Alexei Yevdokimov)
Boris Romanov ..... Father Peter
Vsevolod Safonov ..... Ivan
Yuri Sarantsev ..... Concierge
Oleg Anofriyev ..... Taxi Driver (as Oleg Anofriev)
Nikolai Averyushkin ..... Aide (as Nikolai Averiushkin)

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***English audio with brief Russian audio parts***During Gorbatchov's perestroika, Archer Sloan, a Chicago student, visits Moscow while the Soviet Union is changing from Communist to Wild West capitalist society. Purely by bad luck, he becomes a pawn in a dangerous cat and mouse game for a black Madonna, a precious icon, which was stolen from Russian Orthodox clergy by the quickly rising, rich and corrupt Russian mafia, and then by a black market-girl he followed just as a flirt who didn't know herself what she nicked. The well-connected mobsters find him and threaten his life in no time, and the US embassy isn't very helpful, worse, it's also infiltrated...

Back in the USSR is a 1992 American thriller film directed by Deran Sarafian and starring Frank Whaley, Natalya Negoda and Roman Polanski. The film is set in Moscow during the last years of the Soviet Union, with Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika in full swing. Archer Sloan, a young American student from Chicago arrives hoping to sample the delights of Moscow, but runs into a number of people interested in stolen art works.

An American tourist is trapped in Moscow, accused of murder and the theft of a priceless icon. When the US Embassy and the Russian police refuse to help he is forced to seek assistance from members of the Moscow underworld.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 13 November, 2015.