Coming Out of the Ice (1982)
- Director(s):
- Waris Hussein
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Coming Out of the Ice stars John Savage as the real-life Victor Herman, an American athlete born to Ukrainian immigrants. In 1931, when Herman was sixteen, he and his family moved to the Soviet Union when his father was transferred there for his job with Ford Motor Company. Four years later, Victor won the world parachute jump competition, but refused to accept an award bestowed by Josef Stalin or to renounce his American citizenship. Presumably as a result, Herman was sentenced to hard labor and then exile in Siberia; he would not be cleared of "counterrevolutionary" charges until 1955. He eventually returned to the United States nearly 45 years after he was first imprisoned. Filmed in Finland, Coming Out the Ice was first telecast on May 23, 1982. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Steven Berkoff - Atoman
- Tom Chadbon - Samsonov
- Donald Eccles - Nesterov
- Clive Merrison - Bikov
- Malcolm Storry - Camp 2 Guard Commander
- Frank Windsor - Sam Herman
- Willie Nelson - Red
- John Malcolm - Chernov
- John Savage - Victor Herman
- Edward Burnham - Commissar of Krasnovarsk
- Ben Cross
- Hal Galili - American Guide in Gorky
- Bernice Stegers - Barber
- Peter Vaughan
- David Hayman - Camp 1 Guard Commander
- Sylvia Kay - Rose Herman
- Michael Burrell - Hunger Striker
- Francesca Annis - Galina
- Director(s):
- Waris Hussein
- Writer(s):
- Alan Sharp
- Producer(s):
- Christopher Pearce
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