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Moscow on the Hudson

Vladimir Ivanoff walks into a department store to buy blue jeans, walks out with a girl friend, an immigration lawyer and a buddy. His life and theirs will never be the same again.

1984 · R · 1h 55m

Directed by Paul Mazursky

6.3

TMDB audience score
241 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.

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Cast

  • Robin Williams
    Vladimir Ivanoff

  • María Conchita Alonso
    Lucia Lombardo

  • Cleavant Derricks
    Lionel Witherspoon

  • Alejandro Rey
    Orlando Ramirez

  • Savely Kramarov
    Boris, KGB agent

  • Elya Baskin
    Anatoly Cherkasov

  • Oleg Rudnik
    Yuri

  • Aleksandr Beniaminov
    Vladimir's Grandfather

  • Lyudmila Kramarevskaya
    Vladimir's Mother

  • Ivo Vrzal-Wiegand
    Vladimir's Father

  • Tiger Haynes
    Lionel's Grandfather

  • Eyde Byrde
    Lionel's Mother

  • Robert MacBeth
    Lionel's Stepfather

  • Donna Ingram-Young
    Leanne Witherspoon

  • Yury Olshansky
    Blozonov

  • Olga Talyn
    Svetlana

  • Aleksandr Narodetsky
    Leonid

  • Pierre Orcel
    Young French Man