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Moscow on the Hudson (1984) 6.2
When a Russian musician defects in Bloomingdale's department store in New York, he finds adjusting to American life more difficult than he imagined. Director:Paul Mazursky |
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Lucia Lombardo
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Lionel Witherspoon
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Orlando Ramirez
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Saveli Kramarov | ... |
Boris
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Anatoly
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Yury
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Aleksandr Benyaminov | ... |
Vladimir's Grandfather
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Lyudmila Kramarevskaya | ... |
Vladimir's Mother
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Ivo Vrzal-Wiegand | ... |
Vladimir's Father
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Natalya Ivanova | ... |
Sasha
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Tiger Haynes | ... |
Lionel's Grandfather
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Lionel's Mother
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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. Written by Zaphod <aaa@scs.leeds.ac.uk>
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America is sometimes a strange place even for Americans. Let alone for Vladimir Ivanoff, a Russian defector with a black roommate, a Cuban lawyer, and an Italian girlfriend. Who's learning to live with Big Macs, cable TV, hard rock, softcore, unemployment and a whole new wonderful word for him. Freedom. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
6 April 1984 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Moscú en Nueva York See more »Filming Locations:
Bartlett Place, Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$13,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$25,100,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Color (Metrocolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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french man on bus: Excuse me, sir. Does this bus go to the Lincoln Center?
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Written & Produced by David McHugh
Performed by Maria Conchita Alonso
Courtesy of A&M Records
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Did You Know?
Trivia
In one scene, a cinema is showing An Unmarried Woman, directed by Paul Mazursky, the director of Moscow on the Hudson. See more »Goofs
In the USSR of the 1980s even teenagers weren't acquainted with middle finger gesture, let alone an 80-year-old man doing it towards KGB officers. See more »Quotes
french man on bus: [first lines]french man on bus: Excuse me, sir. Does this bus go to the Lincoln Center?
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Soundtracks
"SUENOS"Written & Produced by David McHugh
Performed by Maria Conchita Alonso
Courtesy of A&M Records
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This is THE ONLY movie I've seen that truly shows life in the Soviet Union, which is made in the West.
This is a great movie! It really hits on why people tried to run from the Soviet Union, the oppression there and the taste of freedom in the USA. It is extremely realistic! We were ashamed at some points in the movie associating ourselves with the former fellow countrymen. But the showed THE TRUTH! All of the things shown used to happen in real life.
Robin Williams was brilliant. He spoke Russian with almost no accent, which was amazing!
I am from the Soviet Union so I know what I'm talking about. Nearly all of the rest of the movies are not more than a joke when it concerns reflecting life in Russia or Soviet Union. Even in the Air Force One (with Harrison Ford!) I was laughing like crazy when they showed supposedly Russian Prison.
So, all of you lucky to be born in freedom, please see this movie and you maybe will start thinking why you are so lucky and how exciting but difficult is to be an immigrant!