A Promise Kept: The Oksana Baiul Story (1994)

Based on the life of the Olympic figure skater.

Director:

Charles Jarrott

Writers:

Bill Wells, Mimi Rothman Schapiro

Stars:

Miguel Ferrer, Sonja Lanzener, Susanna Thompson

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Miguel Ferrer	...	Stanislav
Sonja Lanzener	...	Galina
Susanna Thompson	...	Marina Baiul
Leeza Vinnichenko	...	Grandmother
Monica Keena	...	Oksana Baiul
Oksana Baiul	...	Herself
Kathleen Stupp	...	Oksana as a Child
Melissa McGough	...	Oksana as a Toddler
Stephen Blake	...	Victor Petrenko
Suzanne Semanick	...	Katya
Peggy McIntaggart	...	Anna (as Peggy Sanders)
Kate Rogal	...	Galya (as Kate Cardille Rogal)
Erica Shannon	...	Nancy Kerrigan
Phillip G. Kellams	...	Nickolai (as Phillip Kellams)
Jeff Howell	...	Sergei

Storyline

Based on the life of the Olympic figure skater.

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Plot Keywords:

skater | olympics | skating | ice skating | winter olympics | 

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Genres:

Biography | Drama | Sport

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 November 1994 (USA)

Also Known As:

Oksana - un destin d'étoile

Filming Locations:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Signboard Hill Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min 120 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

User Reviews

Great skating in a Disneyland Soviet Union

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.