During Gorbatchov’s perestroika, Archer Sloan, a Chicago student, visits Moscow while the Soviet Union is changing from Communist to Wild West capitalist society. Purely by bad luck, he becomes a pawn in a dangerous cat and mouse game for a black Madonna, a precious icon, which was stolen from Russian Orthodox clergy by the quickly rising, rich and corrupt Russian mafia, and then by a black market-girl he followed just as a flirt who didn’t know herself what she nicked. The well-connected mobsters find him and threaten his life in no time, and the US embassy isn’t very helpful, worse, it’s also infiltrated… |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 4.9/10 | |
Released: | February 7, 1992 | |
Runtime: | 87 min | |
Genres: | Drama Thriller Crime | |
Companies: | 20th Century Fox Film Corporation JVC | |
Cast: | Roman Polanski Andrew Divoff Frank Whaley Natalya Negoda | |
Crew: | Lindsay Smith Deran Sarafian Ilmar Taska | |
DeoVindice : I watched this originally for Tim Vine and he was brilliant however I really enjoyed every...