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Overview
Release Date:
17 February 1984 (Finland) moreTagline:
It all began with three faceless bodies in the snow ... morePlot:
An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park... more | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Cold War Thriller of Highest Order, Fresh Two Decades On moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| William Hurt | ... | Arkady Renko | |
| Lee Marvin | ... | Jack Osborne | |
| Brian Dennehy | ... | William Kirwill | |
| Ian Bannen | ... | Iamskoy | |
| Joanna Pacula | ... | Irina Asanova | |
| Michael Elphick | ... | Pasha | |
| Richard Griffiths | ... | Anton | |
| Rikki Fulton | ... | Maj. Pribluda | |
| Alexander Knox | ... | General | |
| Alexei Sayle | ... | Golodkin | |
| Ian McDiarmid | ... | Prof. Andreev | |
| Niall O'Brien | ... | KGB Agent Rurik | |
| Henry Woolf | ... | Levin | |
| Tusse Silberg | ... | Natasha | |
| Patrick Field | ... | Fet |
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128 minCountry:
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EnglishColor:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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West Germany:16 (f) | Canada:14+ (Ontario) | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:12 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:RMOVIEmeter: 
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The Irish Coffee Bar where Renko and the others discuss brandy and creme de menthe no longer exists but the Sheraton of course still stands at Tegelbacken. moreGoofs:
Continuity: Renko's very obvious black eye almost completely disappears in a matter of several minutes. moreQuotes:
Irina Asanova: KGB have better cars, you know.Arkady Renko: Ah, but they don't always take you where you want to go, do they?
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Life is cheap when people are desperate.
Gorky Park is a communal leisure area in Moscow. A place of beauty available to the poorest. It was a tenet of faith of US conservatives of the day that communism had left people poor. US liberals of the day claimed that the truth of communist freedoms was being obscured by conservatives. Few in the west understood Soviet life. Whatever the faults of this film, the characters were real, desperate and flawed.
The hero is part superman in the violence. Both touched and Teflon. Hurt plays the naive observer who is witnessing cracks in the paintwork. An honest cop who knows enough politics to live.
The mystery is disturbing, and things get worse. Soviet Russia was a flawed vision of idealists. Nothing works as it is supposed to, and when some well meaning youths attempt to achieve utopia, establishment has a way of buying souls.
Gorky Park is a vision that might have been set in any of many nations where totalitarian regimes fed on the dreams of youth. This is not a common or average film. The violence is extreme and apparently unnecessary, except in some places in the world, such things happen.
I've not read the book.