Priklyucheniya Sherloka Kholmsa i doktora Vatsona: Okhota na tigra (TV 1980)

Director:

Igor Maslennikov

Writers:

Arthur Conan Doyle (stories), Vladimir Valutskiy (screenplay)

Stars:

Vasili Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya

Cast

Cast overview:
Vasili Livanov	...	Sherlock Holmes
Vitali Solomin	...	Dr. Watson
Rina Zelyonaya	...	Mrs. Hudson
Borislav Brondukov	...	Inspector Lestrade
Igor Dmitriev	...	Inspector Gregson
Viktor Yevgrafov
Aleksandr Zakharov
Aleksey Kozhevnikov
Boris Klyuev	...	Mycroft Holmes
Nikolai Kryukov	...	Colonel Sebastian Moran
Anatoli Podshivalov
Irina Kraslavskaya	...	(as I. Kraslavskaya)
E. Kharkevich
Valeri Smolyakov	...	(as V. Smolyakov)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

based on short story | foreign language adaptation

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Genres:

Crime | Mystery

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Details

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Release Date:

1980 (Soviet Union)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

65 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Sherlock Holmes' room contains small framed photographs of Lon Chaney Senior and Junior.

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Goofs

When Watson faints at the sight of Holmes, there is a shot of him lying unconscious on the rug. On the far left side of the screen, we can also see the hand of Mrs. Hudson, also lying on the ground. A moment later, we hear the coffee cup fall to the ground and then the sound of Mrs. Hudson fainting in turn.

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Connections

Followed by Priklyucheniya Sherloka Kholmsa i doktora Vatsona: Dvadtsatyy vek nachinaetsya (1986)

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Viali Solomin has received a lot of praise from viewers of Igor Maslenikov's series of Sherlock Holmes films for Soviet television for his exceptionally good portrayal of Doctor Watson, and I think it's very well deserved. His acting is superb, as demonstrated by the fact that "The Hunt for the Tiger" is a Sherlock Holmes film that doesn't suffer by the fact that Sherlock Holmes doesn't appear for over half of its length.

Watson here is very believably an, intelligent, loyal man with the deep feelings of a creative writer and the drive to help others of a good doctor. This allows this excellent adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's "Adventure of the Empty House" (skillfully folded into a three-part serial with "Charles Augustus Milverton" and "The Final Problem") becomes not just a tense and suspenseful mystery and adventure story, but also a very human drama about Watson and Mrs. Hudson's loss of Holmes, and later, of course, their joy when he returns. When he does come back Vasili Livanov is excellent as always; I'm not sure I could imagine any other actor pulling of the unlikely scene of Sherlock Holmes crying as well.

The direction and pacing are as finely-tuned as ever, and everything seems to hit the right note, with the events of the previous two films being wrapped up nicely. Once again I applaud the filmmakers who could make Sherlock Holmes speak Russian, and be more believable than on most occasions when he speaks his original English.