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A vacationing American and a sultry Russian thief lead police and smugglers on a deadly chase through Moscow.
- Deran Serafian
- Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
- Frank Whaley
Mar 14, 2018 · Director and co-writer Armando Iannucci spoke to RogerEbert.com about which scene was most difficult to write, finding the comedy in dire circumstances, and what makes this story set in 1953 so timely. The settings in the film combine that faded grandeur of the post-Tsarist Soviet Union with the chilliness of the Soviet era.
My review of the obscure culture shock thriller, Back In The USSR (1992) starring Frank Whaley, Natalya Negoda, Roman Polanski, Andrew Divoff, Dey Young, Ravil Isyanov, and Brian Blessed.
- 24 min
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Feb 7, 1992 · Back in the U.S.S.R.: Directed by Deran Sarafian. With Frank Whaley, Natalya Negoda, Roman Polanski, Andrew Divoff. During Gorbatchov's perestroika, Archer Sloan, a Chicago student, visits Moscow while the Soviet Union is changing from Communist to Wild West capitalist society.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Deran Sarafian
- 1992-02-07
Jan 1, 2000 · Back in the U.S.S.R. Review. Brian is an American tourist, who after a series of misunderstandings and an unhelpful US Embassy, finds himself trapped in an unpleasant and dangerous Moscow. The...
Back in the USSR tries to tell a story about the Soviet Union in transition under Mikhail Gorbachev: there are Russian nationalist protestors in the street waving the red white and blue flag, the state is weak and crumbling and the black marketeers run the show in cahoots with corrupt officials.
Preposterous but entertaining, light thriller. allen214-3 18 January 2002. On his last day on vacation in Moscow, a young American's (Frank Whaley) attempts to get laid are sidetracked by a search for a stolen icon with the most preposterous set of plot twists imaginable.
