The Girl from Petrovka

Dec 12, 1974

1h 43m

★ 5.2

A Russian girl, an American reporter, the love they shared... and the country that made it impossible.

Overview

A beautiful Russian ballerina falls in love with an American news correspondent. The KGB is most displeased and does everything it can to break them up.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

KMA

Universal Pictures

The Zanuck/Brown Company

The Girl from Petrovka Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Oktyabrina

Goldie Hawn

Joe

Hal Holbrook

Kostya

Anthony Hopkins

Minister

Grégoire Aslan

Ignatievitch

Anton Dolin

Alexander

Bruno Wintzell

Leonid

Zoran Andrić

Judge

Hanna Landy

Helga Van Dam

Inger Stratton

Kremlin Press Official

Richard Marner

American Reporter

Harry Towb

Zitto Kazann

Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout, she remains in contact with this mysterious person, who needs Terry's help save his life.

5.1

Joy Division

Nov 17, 2006

A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.

6.0

Red King, White Knight

Nov 25, 1989

The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the country. In the meantime, the U.S. policy makers struggle over whether or not to inform the Soviets of the plot. Stoner's problems are complicated by the renewal of an affair with Anna, a Russian, as he tries to convince her to defect.

4.3

Best Defense

Jul 20, 1984

An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.

5.7

The Osterman Weekend

Oct 14, 1983

The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.

6.3

Slow Dancing In The Big City

Nov 8, 1978

An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.

6.2

Spies Like Us

Dec 6, 1985

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.

6.3

Gorky Park

Dec 15, 1983

Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the government.

8.0

Dancing Ghosts

Aug 23, 1992

Choreographic school, young talents are collected here. Behind eight years of study - three months remain before the final performance. And finally, “Giselle” is appointed, roles are distributed, girls are worried - they are afraid of the wording “professionally unsuitable”, but Yulya’s thoughts are different. She fell in love for the first time. And she has to choose between her beloved and the stage.

6.7

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Dec 31, 2002

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

5.6

Enigma

Oct 15, 1982

Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.

6.3

The Good Shepherd

Dec 11, 2006

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

7.1

Rocky IV

Nov 21, 1985

Rocky Balboa holds the world heavyweight championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union. This time, Rocky's training regimen takes him to Siberia, where he prepares for a globally televised match in the heart of Moscow. But nothing can truly prepare him for what he's about to face – a fight to the finish, in which he must defend not only himself, but also the honor of his country!

6.8

23

Jul 2, 1998

The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson's "Illuminatus", but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl's rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB.

6.0

Outrageous Fortune

Jan 30, 1987

Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study with Korzenowski. The two women end up dating the same man (who turns out to be a double agent) and follow him across the country to force him to choose between them.

5.4

Darling

Oct 19, 2017

The moving love story of a dancer on the rollercoaster ride of her life, a drama about the rise and fall of a modern woman as she summons the courage to face her greatest trial.

6.2

Hans Christian Andersen

Dec 19, 1952

A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.

0.0

Batman

Jan 1, 1993

Two Russian craftsmen, slightly warmed up by a game of chess, where instead of pieces there are glasses with "strong drink", invent a perpetual motion machine... for a ballerina.

6.7

White Nights

Nov 22, 1985

After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.

0.0

Lum and Abner Abroad

Feb 4, 1956

The "boys" from Pine Ridge visit Europe and try to help a Yugoslavian ballerina find her American lover, become involved with French jewel thieves, and take on posh society in Monte Carlo.