Yury

Tetya Klava fon Getten (2008)

Actors: Nina Ruslanova (actress), Igor Tolstunov (producer), Mikhail Bogdasarov (actor), Tatyana Orlova (actress), Yelena Rayskaya (writer), Anton Makarskiy (actor), Aleksandr Oleshko (actor), Pavel Sborshchikov (actor), Anton Silaev (composer), Olga Medynich (actress), Yevgeni Danchevsky (actor), Anna Kagarlitskaya (producer), Anna Antonova (actress), Alexey Chernobrivko (editor), Natalya Khlopetskaya (director),

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Romance,

Un rey en La Habana (2005)

Actors: Manuel Manquiña (actor), Manuel de Blas (actor), Paulina Gálvez (actress), Antonio Dechent (actor), Carmen Machi (actress), Guillermo Represa (editor), Edesio Alejandro (composer), Pancho Casal (producer), Alexis Valdés (writer), Alexis Valdés (actor), Alexis Valdés (director), Alexis Valdés (producer), María Isabel Díaz (actress), José Alias (actor), Diana Fernández (costume designer),

Plot: Mr. Arturo, an old rich Spanishman who arrives to Havana to marry Yoli, dies suddenly in bed. Yoli's family, afraid of losing all the money, convinces her ex-boyfriend Papito to go to Spain and get the money. Papito will have to be clever enough to deceive everybody and succeed in Spain.

Genres: Comedy,

Moscow on the Hudson (1984)

Actors: Richard Halsey (editor), Paul Mazursky (director), Paul Mazursky (writer), Maria Conchita Alonso (actress), Albert Wolsky (costume designer), Paul Mazursky (producer), Elya Baskin (actor), Paul Mazursky (actor), Kim Delgado (actor), Robin Williams (actor), Jackée Harry (actress), Udo Kier (actor), Michael Greene (actor), Mickie McGowan (miscellaneous crew), Wayne Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: 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.

Keywords: attorney, bare-breasts, bathtub, beach, bloomingdale's-new-york-city, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brooklyn-new-york-city, chauffeur, circus, citizenship
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: 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. America is sometimes a strange place even for Americans. Let alone for Vladimir Ivanoff, a Russian defector with a black roommate, a Cuban lawyer, and an Italian girlfriend. Who's learning to live with Big Macs, cable TV, hard rock, softcore, unemployment and a whole new wonderful word for him. Freedom.

Quotes:

Cop: This is New York City. A man can do whatever he wants.

Vladimir Ivanoff: In Moscow we fought for an inch of freedom! Here you take it and pour shit all over it.

Lionel Witherspoon, Bloomingdales Security Officer: Fags! Everywhere!

Anatoly Cherkasov: An artist without freedom is like a bird without wings.

Lionel Witherspoon, Bloomingdales Security Officer: [as a clearly nervous Vladimir pours water over himself in Bloomingdale's] What do you think you're doing?::Vladimir Ivanoff: I defect.::Lionel Witherspoon, Bloomingdales Security Officer: Not here, you don't. There's a men's room down the hall.

Boris, KGB man: [speech given before going to America]::[in Russian]::Boris, KGB man: Stay away from places like the Subway.::Boris, KGB man: [looks towards Yuri]::Yuri: [now in English] Times Square,::Boris, KGB man: uh, Teems Square,::Yuri: Greenich Villlage::Boris, KGB man: uh, Grenich yillage,::Yuri: Rockefeller Center::Boris, KGB man: Kak? [Russian for "What?]::Yuri: Rockefeller Center::Boris, KGB man: Reekafeller Tsyenter::Yuri: [shrugs]::Boris, KGB man: [shrugs]

Orlando Ramirez, Vladimir's Cuban Lawyer: My father was called Orlando. He rolled the finest cigars in Havana. "Orlando el Rey," they called him..."Orlando the King." Then Castro came along and my father was on his ass.::Vladimir Ivanoff: Castro is a great man.::Orlando Ramirez, Vladimir's Cuban Lawyer: Castro is a Cuban bullshit artist who has been taken in by Russian bullshit artists!

french man on bus: [first lines]::french man on bus: Excuse me, sir. Does this bus go to the Lincoln Center?

Anatoly Cherkasov: O ok, ok, ok. Let's practice our English.::Vladimir Ivanoff: Ok.::Anatoly Cherkasov: Ok, let us practice. You start.::Vladimir Ivanoff: Hello, Mifter...::Anatoly Cherkasov: Mister.::Vladimir Ivanoff: Mister.::Anatoly Cherkasov: Mister.::Vladimir Ivanoff: Mister. Hello, Mister, may I buy lamb chop?::Anatoly Cherkasov: Sure thing, Mister.::Vladimir Ivanoff: Do you read Ernest Hemingway?::Anatoly Cherkasov: Every Fucking Day.::Vladimir Ivanoff: Kiss me, beautiful. Beautiful? Beatuiful. I love you.

Vladimir Ivanoff: You don't look like Marxist.::Veronica Cohen: I'm not. I'm a humanist. What does a marxist look like anyway?::Vladimir Ivanoff: Usually has beard, mustache.::Veronica Cohen: A-ha, the women too?::Vladimir Ivanoff: In Russia, especially women.::[Anatoly waves a small american flag at Vladiimir from across the room]::Vladimir Ivanoff: Excuse me, I a... happy to talk to you, but I must now to make toilet.