Back in the USSR (film)

Back in the USSR is a 1992 American thriller film directed by Deran Sarafian and starring Frank Whaley, Natalya Negoda and Roman Polanski. Written and produced by Ilmar Taska and Lindsay Smith.

Back in the USSR
Directed by	Deran Sarafian
Written by	Lindsay Smith Ilmar Taska
Produced by	Lindsay Smith Ilmar Taska
Starring	Frank Whaley Natalya Negoda Roman Polanski
Cinematography	Yuri Neyman
Edited by	Ian Crafford
Music by	Les Hooper Rena Riffel
Production companies	JVC Entertainment Largo International
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	February 7, 1992 (1992-02-07)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	USA
Languages	English Russian
Box office	$501,036 (USA)

Plot

Set in Moscow during the last years of the Soviet Union, with Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika in full swing, the film follows Archer Sloan, a young American student from Chicago, who arrives hoping to sample the delights of Moscow, but runs into a number of people interested in stolen art works.^[1]

Cast

• Frank Whaley as Archer Sloan
• Natalya Negoda as Lena
• Roman Polanski as Kurilov
• Andrew Divoff as Dimitro
• Dey Young as Claudia
• Ravil Isyanov as Georgi
• Harry Ditson as Whittier
• Brian Blessed as Chazov
• Constantine Gregory as Stanley
• Boris Romanov as father Pyotr
• Vsevolod Safonov as Ivan
• Yuri Sarantsev as concierge
• Oleg Anofriyev as taxi driver