Rocky IV

Rocky IV (1985)

Timing: 1:31 (91 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1985-11-21

Country

United States

Production

United Artists, Winkler Films, Chartoff Productions

Genre

Drama

Budget

$31 000 000

Revenue

$300 473 716

Website

https://www.mgm.com/movies/rocky-iv

Director

Sylvester Stallone

Actors

Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Brigitte Nielsen, Tony Burton, Michael Pataki, Stu Nahan, R.J. Adams
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Scenario

Sylvester Stallone

Producer

Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff, James D. Brubaker, Arthur Chobanian

Operator

Bill Butler

Composer

Vince DiCola

Artist

William Ladd Skinner

Audition

Amanda Mackey

Editing

John W. Wheeler, Don Zimmerman
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• Stallone refused to simulate a boxing match with Dolph Lundgren and decided to fight him for real. As a result, the latter's powerful blows made Stallone regret his decision.
• In the episode where Rocky addresses the Soviet audience, his line “It's better than making twenty million people kill each other” is translated into Russian as: “It's better than 20 million dollars.”
• Dolph Lundgren received the role of Ivan Drago, beating out 5,000 candidates.
• Brigitte Nielsen was in charge of casting for the film.
• Stallone and Lundgren trained together for six months during the preparation for filming.
• The film was banned from release in the USSR.
• Filming period: April 30 – July 1985.
• An American boxer is sent to train in a small town called Krasnogurbinsk, which does not actually exist.
• Before the fight, the Soviet anthem of 1943–1955 is played. Although the film's plot takes place in 1985.
• During the performance of the Soviet anthem, the orchestra stops playing before the anthem is finished.
• Drago's captain's shoulder boards do not correspond to those of a junior officer and have two pips, like those of a senior officer, while the captain's stars are attached to one of the pips.
• Stallone refused to simulate a boxing match with Dolph Lundgren and decided to fight him for real. As a result, the latter's powerful blows made Stallone regret his decision.