The Girl from Petrovka

1974
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The Girl from Petrovka
Poster The Girl from Petrovka

Title: The Girl from Petrovka

Original Title: The Girl from Petrovka

Year: 1974

Info

Release Dates

  • United States: August 22 1974

Plot

An American journalist named Joe is assigned to carry out his work in the Soviet Union as a correspondent at a time when diplomatic relations are still very tense. In this place, He will meet Oktyabrina, a beautiful ballerina of the Russian ballet, independent and illegal in the country since it has no papers. Together they begin a passionate love story in which both of them open their hearts each other and discover what they can provide within their social, cultural and personal differences. But this romance begins to be a danger because the KGB, Russian information agency, wants to see them separated because they suspect they may belong to a network of espionage that could compromise the Soviet Union. A film directed by Robert Ellis Miller and starring by Hal Holbrook (Joe) and Goldie Hawn (Oktyabrina).

Cast

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'The Girl from Petrovka' V.O trailer 2:20

Trivia

Before filming started, Anthony Hopkins scoured the bookshops of London's Charing Cross Road trying to find a copy of the novel by George Feifer, upon which this film was based. He had no luck and went to catch a train home. There at the station, lying forgotten on a bench, was a copy of the book. Years later, Hopkins met Feifer, who told him that he had lent his own copy to a friend, who then lost it. Hopkins produced the one he found and asked if it was his. By an amazing coincidence, it was the author's own book Hopkins had chanced upon.

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