Gorky Park DVD (1983)

Gorky Park details

Format:	15 DVD
Starring:	Joanna Pacula, Brian Dennehy, Lee Marvin, William Hurt
Director:	Michael Apted
Genres:	Drama, Thriller - Crime
Studio:	MGM ENTERTAINMENT

DVD 1 disc

Name	Discs
Gorky Park	15 Feature

DVD Information

Run time:	2 hours 4 minutes
Rental release:	19 May 2003
Main languages:	English

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Chilling Thriller for ...

By DIMITRIOS#4 from WOKING , 27 Oct 2004

[Highly rated reviewer]

Chilling Thriller for its time and still stands its ground today!

Was a great film to watch again after so many years.

Recommended to all!

Regards

Zach
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Russia in Helsinki With English Actors

By Cato (715 reviews) from Lydbury North , 15 Oct 2012

Slow, rather complicated plot for the initial premise of finding the murderers of three people in Gorky Park . But that's probably the fault of the novel the film was based upon. Interesting to see some old English faithfuls in the cast, including Michael Elphick, who did'nt turn up in a Russian police uniform very often, and a very young looking Richard Griffiths. The least said about Alexei Sayle's cameo performance the better. but at 2 hours the film did drag on a bit.
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Mis-cast and not very interesting

By BrokenToySoldier (11 reviews) from Egg Rock , 01 Feb 2011

This sounded like it would be political, hard-hitting and somewhat informative. Maybe I just read the wrong reviews because what I saw was a hotchpotch of mis-cast, now-comedy actors running through a plot that I lost track of for the simple reason that it wasn't very interesting.
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Arkady isn't quite as down at heel as you want him to be

By a customer from Morecambe, England , 15 Oct 2008

...that's my main complaint about this Brit-Russo production (Ian Bannen, Micheal Elphick, Alexi Sayle)...William Hurt just glides through a performance in name only. If you love the Cruz Smith books, you won't recognise your beloved Arkasha. Gen. Pribluda is good, and the locations are fab (I love snow, by the way, so any film with it in gets my vote - check out Fargo) so whaddya want fer a tanner?, as we say in Lancashire.

Lee Marvin plays the stereotypical American businessman okay, and Richard Griffiths also has a good part. Dosvedanya!
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The cop who came in from the cold

By rpere008 (20 reviews) from Bangor , 23 Jan 2008

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I did not know the film was based on a book until I read the reviews. I saw 'Gorky Park' with no preconceptions and I have no idea whether the book translated well or not into film.

I thought the plot was tight and the suspense was nicely maintained until the end. However, I missed a few more hidden agendas on the part of some of the characters, particularly William Hurt's Arkady Renko. I did not see the need of having an American cop in the story (maybe the viewers of the era couldn't conceive that a Russian cop could be the good guy?) There is also this theme that pops up in every film of the Soviet genre I have viewed, from 'Red Dawn' to 'Hunt for Red October': every Russian's dream is to defect to the West, because freedom is good and Communism is evil. It makes the film seem a tad dated.

So why is 'Gorky Park' well worth watching? It's entertaining, and it may have served as an inspiration for Michael Apted's WWII spy-story, 'Enigma', one of my favorite films from the last 5 years. If so, this may have been its greatest contribution.
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gorky park

By a customer from Bridgend , 07 Dec 2007

excellent movie,very enjoyable
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