A Promise Kept: The Oksana Baiul Story (1994)Based on the life of the Olympic figure skater. Director:Charles Jarrott |
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A Promise Kept: The Oksana Baiul Story (1994)Based on the life of the Olympic figure skater. Director:Charles Jarrott |
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| Miguel Ferrer | ... |
Stanislav
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Sonja Lanzener | ... |
Galina
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| Susanna Thompson | ... |
Marina Baiul
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Leeza Vinnichenko | ... |
Grandmother
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| Monica Keena | ... | ||
| Oksana Baiul | ... |
Herself
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Kathleen Stupp | ... | |
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Melissa McGough | ... | |
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Stephen Blake | ... |
Victor Petrenko
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Suzanne Semanick | ... |
Katya
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Peggy McIntaggart | ... |
Anna
(as Peggy Sanders)
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| Kate Rogal | ... |
Galya
(as Kate Cardille Rogal)
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Erica Shannon | ... |
Nancy Kerrigan
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Phillip G. Kellams | ... |
Nickolai
(as Phillip Kellams)
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Jeff Howell | ... |
Sergei
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Based on the life of the Olympic figure skater.
This dramatised biography of Oksana Baiul provides wonderful skating. Anybody who has seen any of Soviet and post-Soviet reality will however be very disappointed by the pastel-coloured Disneyland SU where Oksana is supposed to have moved around, in freshly painted flats where some occasional folkloristic napkin or bedcover is exhibited probably in order to tone down the American-style surroundings. A particularly amusing detail is the outer door to the posh-looking block of flats with the shining door knob (no stolen bulbs here!). Not to speak of the extremely good taste and stylish clothes of all the very healthy-looking men and women of this fictional Ukraine. At least most of the names are more or less correctly pronounced. The subject would have been extremely interesting both from human and skating point of view.