Synopsis
A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.
Awards
Details
- Released
- 6 April 1984
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Director
- Paul Mazursky
- Writers
- Leon Capetanos, Paul Mazursky
- Box office
- $25,100,000
- Countries
- United States of America
- Languages
- Russian, English
- Production
- Bavaria Film, ML Delphi Premier Productions, Columbia Pictures, Taurus Film
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Cast
Robin WilliamsNominated
María Conchita Alonso
Cleavant Derricks
Alejandro Rey
Savely Kramarov
Elya Baskin
Oleg Rudnik
Aleksandr Beniaminov- LLyudmila Kramarevskaya
- IIvo Vrzal-Wiegand