Irina Malysheva Movies

In this first American film to be shot entirely in Moscow, young vacationing American Archer Sloan (Frank Whaley) gets involved in the theft of a rare religious icon. The "hot-potatoed" icon lands in Sloan's possession and one of the underworld bad guys involved in the theft is murdered. Sloan becomes a suspect and is forced into fleeing the Moscow police while trying to locate the people who can vindicate him. This Glasnost-era film will probably be better remembered for its glimpse into a molting Soviet Union, than for intrigue as an actioner. Included in the cast is Polish producer Roman Polanski. ~ Rovi

In this romance, which was enormously popular in the former Soviet Union, Klava (Galina Polskich) is a woman with a history of disappointment in love. She is divorced from her first husband, by whom she had her now teenaged son. Her second lover, who was married to a dying woman, gave her custody of his daughter but has now left her. She makes the acquaintance of a sailor who has come to her southern seaport town to bury his mother. Because he knows no one in town, she is able to help him a great deal. As they work together, handling these intimate details, they come to care for each other, but each is careful not to become too close, too soon. Klava is too busy dealing with her son's turbulent emotions as he embarks on his first love affair and taking care of her adopted daughter to have time for romance. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Boris Rytsarev directed this sweeping 1976 Russian adaptation of the fairy tale classic The Princess and the Pea. Part of the Russian Cinema Council Collection, Printsessa Na Goroshine stars Alisa Frejndlikh and Andrei Podoshyan, and retells Hans Christian Anderson's beloved story of the prince who places a pea under the mattress of his would-be wives, in hopes of someday finding a woman who proves herself to be a real princess. With original dialogue in Russian, the film is available dubbed in English and French, and subtitled in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi