Russia is rich in talented people who have proven themselves in various fields of activity. Cinema is no exception. Representatives of the domestic acting school are in demand not only at home, but also abroad.
Soviet, and later Russian actors acted in joint films directed by domestic film studios in cooperation with foreign ones, and in those that were completely created by foreign film companies.
Soviet era
The famous actor Georgy Vitsin starred in two joint films. In the Soviet-Polish motion picture The Journey of Pan Klyaksa, based on the fairy tales of the Polish writer J. Bzhechwa, he played King Apollinarius. Another film with the participation of this actor is the American-Soviet adaptation of the fairy-tale play by M. Meterlinck "The Blue Bird". In this film, directed by the American director J. Cukor, G. Vitsin starred in the role of Sahara - one of the companions of the boy Tiltil and the girl Mitil. The partners of the Soviet artist were such famous American actors as Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda and Robert Morley.
Vladimir Vysotsky starred in the Hungarian-French melodrama "Them Two" (1977). This is the only film where he played with his wife Marina Vlady.
Oleg Vidov starred in foreign films. In 1967 he played Prince Hagbard in the Danish film Red Robe, based on the romantic plot of a Scandinavian ballad. In 1990, the actor played the cameo role of Otto in the American erotic melodrama "Wild Orchid", and a year earlier O. Vidov and another famous Soviet actor - Savely Kramorov - took part in the creation of the American film "Red Heat", where their partners were A. Schwarzenegger and J. Belushi.
Vidov's career in American cinema continued in the post-Soviet period: "Ice Runner" (1993), "Love Story" (1994), "Immortals" (1995), "Wishmaker 2: Evil Never Dies" (1999), "Thirteen Days" (2000).
Savely Kramarov also did not limit himself to "Red Heat". In 1984, he starred in the science fiction film A Space Odyssey 2010 as a Soviet cosmonaut. Other American films with S. Kramarov's participation are “Moscow on the Hudson” (1984), “Armed and Dangerous” (1988), “Double Agent” (1987).
Modernity
Contemporary Russian actors are also in demand abroad.
The American film "The Turn" (1997), based on the novel by J. Ridley "Stray Dogs", starred Valery Nikolaev, familiar to the Russian public from the TV series "Birthday of the Bourgeois". In the same year, he starred in another American film - "Saint", and a year later - in the thriller "Insidious Enemy."
In the American action movie The Peacemaker, created in 1997, one of the main roles was played by the Russian actor Alexander Baluev, his partners were George Clooney and Nicole Kidman.
In 2001, the film Behind Enemy Lines was made in the United States, which tells about the Bosnian War in 1995, and one of the roles in it was played by Russian Vladimir Mashkov.
