Moscow on the Hudson
Vladimir Ivanoff walks into a department store to buy blue jeans, walks out with a girl friend, an immigration lawyer and a buddy. His life and theirs will never be the same again.
Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
Timing:
1:55 (115 min)
6.2/10
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Country
Production
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Budget
$2 147 483 647
Revenue
$25 100 000
Director
Actors
Robin Williams, María Conchita Alonso, Cleavant Derricks, Alejandro Rey, Savely Kramarov, Ilya Baskin, Oleg Rudnik, Aleksandr Beniaminov, Lyudmila Kramarevskaya, Ivo Vrzal-Wiegand
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Leon Capetanos, Paul Mazursky
Producer
Operator
Composer
David McHugh
Artist
Audition
Joy Todd
Editing
Richard Halsey
All team (10)
All team (10)
Short description
A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.
What's left behind the scenes
- Preparing for the role took Robin Williams (1951-2014) almost a year. Throughout this time, the actor studied Soviet customs and learned Russian. It is claimed that he dedicated 5 hours a day to language lessons and learned to speak Russian in a month. By the start of filming, he was already quite fluent in Russian and could even hold a conversation. He was coached by an actor from the USSR named David.
- Preparing for the filming for a year, director Paul Mazursky (1930-2014) spoke with Russians living in the United States, as well as with those who still lived in the USSR, particularly in Kyiv, Moscow and Leningrad.
- For several months, Robin Williams studied the saxophone and, according to his music teacher, reached a level usually achieved in two years.
- Scenes set in the USSR were filmed in Munich, Germany. On the grounds of «Bavaria Studios» there was a large set depicting a street in an Eastern European city, and the filmmakers were allowed to set up any decorations they wanted. This street was first built for the filming of Ingmar Bergman's (1918-2007) film «The Serpent's Egg» (1977).
- The director and one of the screenwriters, Paul Mazursky, later said that the plot of the film was inspired by details of his family history. His grandfather, originally from Kyiv, once fought in the Russian army, but one day fled the Tsarist regime and reached America by sea. During the voyage, he met a girl who later became the director's grandmother.
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