Gorky Park (1983) on Netflix
Three mutilated bodies are found near the Gorky Park ice rink, their faces and fingertips removed. Moscow investigator Arkady Renko takes the case, but the KGB will not take it over.
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Plot summary
In Moscow, militsiya officer Arkady Renko is summoned to a clearing by the Gorky Park ice rink, where three bodies have been found shot and deliberately disfigured. The KGB, led by Major Pribluda, declines to take over the inquiry, which troubles Renko. He traces a pair of the dead woman's skates to Irina Asanova, a movie set worker who says they were stolen, and he asks Professor Andreev, an anthropologist, to rebuild the faces of the woman and of one of the men, whom the pathologist believes is American. At the dacha of Chief Prosecutor Iamskoy, Renko meets Jack Osborne, an American sable importer, and William Kirwill, a New York detective searching for his missing brother.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gorky Park (1983)
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- Before William Hurt was cast as Arkady Renko in Gorky Park, Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino were both considered for the role, while Cary Grant and Burt Lancaster were considered to play Jack Osborne and Roman Polanski was considered for Prof. Andreev.
- The Soviet Communist Party condemned Gorky Park as anti-Communist and anti-Soviet and refused the production access to Moscow, forcing the crew to shoot mainly in Helsinki, Finland, with the city's Kaisaniemi park standing in for the title location, and in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Gorky Park novelist Martin Cruz Smith turned down the chance to adapt his own book for the screen, leaving the job to Dennis Potter, whose screenplay relocated the story's climax from New York City to Stockholm.
- Because every other actor playing a Russian character in Gorky Park was British except Polish-born Joanna Pacuła, American star William Hurt adopted an English accent for the role of Arkady Renko to match his co-stars.
