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6.6/10   74 votes
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Director:
Waris Hussein
Writers:
Victor Herman (autobiography Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life)
Alan Sharp (writer)
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Release Date:
23 May 1982 (USA) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama more
Plot:
A young American man in Russia in the 1920s to help build a factory makes a request to go home to the U.S... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Interesting historical account of an American surviving incarceration in the U.S.S.R. more

Cast

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John Savage ... Victor Herman

Willie Nelson ... Red Loon
Francesca Annis ... Galina

Ben Cross ... Gen. Tuchachevsky
Frank Windsor ... Sam Herman
Sylvia Kay ... Rose Herman
Peter Vaughan ... Belov
John Malcolm ... Chernov
Bernice Stegers ... Lady Barber
Steven Berkoff ... Atoman
Donald Eccles ... Nesterov

Tom Chadbon ... Samsonov
Clive Merrison ... Bikov
Edward Burnham ... Commissar
David Hayman ... Guard Commander 1
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Additional Details

Runtime:
104 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16
Filming Locations:
Helsinki, Finland more
Company:
EMI Films more

Fun Stuff

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In the scene in which Victor is walking on the market, most of the extras were Finnish. Out of the frame we can hear one of them saying in Finnish: "I almost looked at the camera”. more

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Interesting historical account of an American surviving incarceration in the U.S.S.R., 17 September 2000
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Author: Tom-207 from Boston

In the 1920s Victor Herman left the United States with his parents who went to the U.S.S.R. with other Americans to build an automobile factory there. They were part of an idealistic socialist group who thought that the Soviet Union would be a better place for working class people.

Herman had athletic prowess in track and field, and the Soviet authorities wanted him to represent them in world competition. At first he consented, but later demurred when their demands on him became onerous. He asked to leave the country, but of course, back then, departure equaled treason, and they sent him to a remote prison camp. This film depicts the story of his survival. It's a good account of forgotten Americans from a forgotten period.

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