Margarita's actors speaking Russian list

[Lila W Zaharkov]

At 11:55 AM 10/17/2001 -0400, you wrote:
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>>How about Sean Connery in The Hunt for Red October for worst movie-Russian
>>ever?  It's a rather painful opening few minutes.
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>I absolutely agree with Tony. Connery and Sam Neill speak Russian
>several times in the movie, each time in atrociously pronounced,
>grammatically uninflected pseudo-sentences. Alec Baldwin was
>a *little* more credible.
>And this is a movie that HAD Russian actors in it, speaking normally !!
>
>Leslie Davis is right to bring up *Reds*. Beatty and Keaton play
>Americans speaking Russian, so their accents are not a bother.
>And am I right in remembering that that was Jerzy Kosinski playing
>Dzherzhinsky?? So long ago ...
>-FR
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did we forget baryshnikov's White nights also with Kosinsky as the nasty KGB?

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