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Director:
Writers:
Martin Cruz Smith (novel)
Dennis Potter (writer)
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Release Date:
12 January 1984 (Australia) more
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Tagline:
It all began with three faceless bodies in the snow ... more
Plot:
An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park... more | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Cold War Thriller of Highest Order, Fresh Two Decades On more (40 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Gorky Park (Austria) (West Germany) [de]
Brottsplats: Gorkij parken (Sweden) [sv]
Eglima sto Gorky Park (Greece) [el]
El parque Gorky (Colombia) (cable TV title) [es]
Gorkij park (Hungary) [hu]
Gorkin puisto (Finland) [fi]
Mistério no Parque Gorky (Brazil) [pt]
Mordene i Gorkijparken (Norway) [no]
Moskova'da cinayet (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
O Mistério de Gorky Park (Portugal) [pt]
Park Gorki (Serbia) [sr]
Park Gorkiego (Poland) [pl]
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Runtime:
128 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The dish washing liquid (squat white bottle, green flat cap) on the kitchen counter in the flat (in Gamla Stan Stockholm) is actually Timotei shampoo which Apted thought looked more like dish washing liquid than the real thing. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: When Arkady's car stalls on the bridge on the way back to Moscow, the wipers are still running. As Arkady repeatedly tries to re-start the car, we see the wipers still running at full speed. In real life, each time he tried to restart the car, the wipers would slow from the drain of battery power away from the wipers to the starter motor. more
Quotes:
Arkady Renko: [to the bartender] A Stinger, please.
[walks away]
Arkady Renko: Stinger.
William Kirwill: That's a whore's drink.
Arkady Renko: I am a whore.
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Soundtrack:
It's So Easy more

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Cold War Thriller of Highest Order, Fresh Two Decades On, 18 July 2006
8/10
Author: David Daniel Ball from Sydney, Australia

Life is cheap when people are desperate.

Gorky Park is a communal leisure area in Moscow. A place of beauty available to the poorest. It was a tenet of faith of US conservatives of the day that communism had left people poor. US liberals of the day claimed that the truth of communist freedoms was being obscured by conservatives. Few in the west understood Soviet life. Whatever the faults of this film, the characters were real, desperate and flawed.

The hero is part superman in the violence. Both touched and Teflon. Hurt plays the naive observer who is witnessing cracks in the paintwork. An honest cop who knows enough politics to live.

The mystery is disturbing, and things get worse. Soviet Russia was a flawed vision of idealists. Nothing works as it is supposed to, and when some well meaning youths attempt to achieve utopia, establishment has a way of buying souls.

Gorky Park is a vision that might have been set in any of many nations where totalitarian regimes fed on the dreams of youth. This is not a common or average film. The violence is extreme and apparently unnecessary, except in some places in the world, such things happen.

I've not read the book.

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