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Gorky Park (1983)
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Director:
Michael Apted |
COUNTRY
France |
GENRE
Crime/Drama/
Thriller/Romance |
NORWEGIAN
TITLE
Mordene i Gorkiparken |
RUNNING
TIME
128
minutes |
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Producer:
Gene Kirkwood
Howard W. Koch Jr. |
Screenwriter (based on the novel by Martin Cruz Smith):
Dennis Potter |
Review
William Hurt's
elegant, arrogant and delicately aloof Arkady Renko is the hub in this
investigation mystery portraying the corruption, trustlessness and
coldness in a closed cold war Soviet Union. Despite some seemingly
biased opinions concerning the Soviet way of life, the film actually
holds up well as a just document of the cold war, showing the downside from
both perspectives and maintaining faith in a socialist society despite
delivering it some heavy blows. It should be kept in mind that to shoot
a film like Gorky Park from a Soviet perspective in 1983, allegedly from the
inside of the USSR, and with a Soviet hero and an American
villain, was a rather controversial move. Helsinki worked as a stand-in for Moscow and
British English a
stand-in for Russian, but the filmmakers still managed to create a
highly believable and sober film. Gorky Park is atmospheric, tightly knit and
portrays a cold and uncommercial society in an attractive and sexy
manner.
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