Oleg Vidov — one of the Soviet Union's most beloved actors — was persecuted, blacklisted and pushed to the breaking point before escaping to the West and achieving the American dream.
Cast
Brian Cox
Narrator (voice)
Costa Ronin
Oleg Vidov (voice)
Oleg Vidov
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Andreyev
Self
Radyk Ayupov
Self
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Self
Leonid Berdichevskiy
Self
Joan Borsten
Self
Veljko Bulajić
Self
Milena Dravić
Self
Merima Isaković
Self
Roger Donaldson
Self
Walter Hill
Self
Svetlana Druzhinina
Self
Pavel Finn
Self
Graeme Gill
Self
Gennadiy Gurevich
Self
Francesca Harrison
Self
Richard Harrison
Self
Gitte Hænning
Self
Sasha Kapustina
Aunt Nyuta (voice)
Andrey Kazankov
Self
Julian Lowenfield
Self
Mike Medavoy
Self
Aleksandr Mitta
Self
Cathy Moriarty
Self
Karin Mørch
Self
Yuri Norstein
Self
Sergei Pashin
Self
Amanda Plummer
Self
Oksana Pushkina
Self
Phil Roman
Self
Kseniya Ryabinkina
Self
Nina Shorina
Self
Verica Stamenkovic
Self
Oleg Sulkin
Self
Valentina Titova
Self
Sergei Vidov
Self
Vladimir Vinokur
Self
Crew
Nadia Tass
Director, Executive Producer
Cory Taylor
Screenplay
Anya Ovdienko Vidov
Executive Producer
Sergei Vidov
Executive Producer
Joan Borsten
Producer
Sasha Kapustina
Associate Producer
Gregor Zupanc
Associate Producer
Valentina Castellani
Co-Producer
Nikolai Kazantcev
Co-Producer
Seth Isler
Co-Producer
Valentina Churaeva
Co-Producer
Paul Hackner
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Andrea Guerra
Original Music Composer
Bob Jackson
Dialogue Editor
Marianna Yarovskaya
Consulting Producer
Svetlana Winter
Supervising Producer
Milos Antic
Supervising Producer
Nataliya Mak
Supervising Producer
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