The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981 film)

Infobox Film
name = The Hound of the Baskervilles


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director = Igor Maslennikov
producer = Lenfilm
writer = A. Conan Doyle (novel)
Igor Maslennikov
Yuri Veksler
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starring = Vasily Livanov
Vitaly Solomin
Borislav Brondukov
music = Vladimir Dashkevich
cinematography = Dmitri Dolinin
Vladimir Ilyin
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released = 1981
runtime = 147 min.
country = Soviet Union
language = Russian
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imdb_id = 0083100

"The Hound of the Baskervilles" ( _ru. Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона: Собака Баскервилей, _en. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles) is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of the same name. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes, ensuring the film's popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other features of this best entry in the series include excellent exterior shots which closely match the novel's setting in the Dartmoor marshland, as well as an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Livanov - Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars an internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as the villain Stapleton.

Cast

* Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes
* Vitaly Solomin as Dr. Watson
* Rina Zelyonaya as Mrs. Hudson
* Borislav Brondukov as Inspector Lestrade
* Irina Kupchenko as Beryl Stapleton
* Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville
* Alla Demidova as Laura Lyons
* Sergey Martinson as Mr. Frankland
* Oleg Yankovsky as Stapleton
* Aleksandr Adabashyan as Barrymore
* Svetlana Kryuchkova as Mrs. Barrymore
* Evgeny Steblov as Dr. Mortimer

Miscellania

The character of Sir Henry has a profound disdain for oatmeal, a fact which becomes a subject of several heated arguments with the butler Barrymore throughout the film. In addition, Barrymore is portrayed as a loud talker, which causes him to be constantly admonished by the nervous and jittery Sir Henry, - "...there are no deaf people in this house, Barrymore".

External links

*imdb title|id=0083100|title=The Hound of the Baskervilles
* [http://www.bakerstreetdozen.com/russianholmes.html A Russian page dedicated to the series]