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Moscow on the Hudson is a american film of genre Drama directed by Paul Mazursky released in USA on 6 april 1984 with Robin Williams
Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 6 april 1984
Length 1h55
Directed by Paul Mazursky
OriginUSA
Themes Films about alcoholism, Circus films, Films about immigration, Films about music and musicians, Politique, La précarité, Jazz films, Political films
Rating64%
Moscow on the Hudson is a 1984 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Mazursky, and stars Robin Williams as a Soviet circus musician who defects while on a visit to the United States. The film was released on April 6, 1984.
Williams's co-stars include María Conchita Alonso (in her film debut), Elya Baskin as the circus clown, Savely Kramarov as one of two KGB apparatchiks, Alejandro Rey as the musician's immigration attorney, and Cleavant Derricks as his first American host and friend.
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Set against the backdrop of the Cold War and Soviet political repression of the early 1980s prior to perestroika, Vladimir Ivanoff (Robin Williams), a saxophonist with the Moscow circus, lives in a crowded apartment with his extended family. He stands in lines for hours to buy toilet paper and shoes. When the apparatchik assigned to the circus (Kramarov as Boris) criticizes Vladimir for being late to rehearsal and suggests Vladimir may miss the approaching trip to New York, Vladimir gives Boris a pair of shoes from the queue that made Vladimir late.Actors
Robin Williams
(Vladimir Ivanoff)
María Conchita Alonso
(Lucia Lombardo)
Cleavant Derricks
(Lionel Witherspoon)
Elya Baskin
(Anatoly Cherkasov)
Alejandro Rey
(Orlando Ramirez)
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