"Russia" (1986) TV mini-series

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

John McGreevy

Writer:

Peter Ustinov (writer)

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy | History | Sport | War

Plot Keywords:

Railway | Part Fiction | Subway | TV Mini-Series | Choir

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Cast

Peter Ustinov	...	Himself - Host
Olegar Fedoro	...	Fyodor Dostoyevsky (as Oleg Fedorov)
Lev Durov	...	Lev Tolstoy
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Valentina Azovskaya	...	Catherine the Great
Yevgeni Nesterenko	...	Boris Godunov (on stage)
Anatoli Obukhov	...	Oblomov
Yuri Orlov	...	The young Ulyanov, Lenin
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky	...	Himself (conductor)
Yevgeni Tilicheyev	...	Peter the Great (as Evgeny Telycheev)
Andrei Tolubeyev	...	Alexander I (as Andrei Tolubeev)
Yevgeni Yevtushenko	...	Himself (author of 'Babi Yar')

Also Known As:

"Peter Ustinov's Russia: A Personal Journey" (Canada: English title) (complete title)

Runtime:

48 min (6 episodes)

Country:

Canada

Language:

English | Russian

Color:

Black and White | Color

Filming Locations:

Moscow, Russia

Company:

Victor Solnicki Productions

Quotes:

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: [firmly] Nothing is always true. A few things are always untrue.
Himself - Host: Mr. Dostoyevsky, when you were younger you were led out into a public square in order to be shot as a revolutionary. In the last moment there was a reprieve and you were sentenced to four years in Siberia and eight further years in the army. Don't you sometimes resent those 12 wasted years of your life?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: [passionately] No! They gave me everything. My literature, my characters, my understanding, my compassion. Why should I resent a superficial injustice? So, I am grateful, even thankful to the fools, the idiots who sentenced me to be shot.
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