Top 8 Hollywood movies in which Russians are good
Hollywood's formulaic thinking is no longer surprising. If Russians appear on the screen, wait for villainies. We are used to it and treat it with humor. However, there are exceptions to any rule. We found eight Western films in which Russians appear as heroes or just good guys.
An exceptional film. At the height of the Cold War, Hollywood made a movie about the friendship of Americans and Soviet citizens. In the story, a Soviet submarine goes off course and runs aground off the coast of a fictional island in Massachusetts. The locals are panicking, believing that Russian infantrymen have arrived with bad intentions. And submariners don't really need anything but a tugboat. Meanwhile, a young sailor Alexey falls in love with an American woman, an affair breaks out between them, and in the end everything ends with a happy ending.
Oscar winner William Hurt plays a Russian investigator who had to find the perpetrators of a triple murder committed in Gorky Park. Little by little, the circumstances of the case become clearer, and the evidence points to the involvement of the KGB. A seasoned operative is tempted to close the case. In addition, he learns that his beloved woman is also involved in the murder. But, pursued by the KGB, overcoming the networks of deception and betrayal, the investigator decides to stop at nothing and bring the murderers to justice - even at the cost of his own fate and love.
The inimitable Robin Williams in the role of a Soviet saxophonist with a rare name Vladimir Ivanov. While touring the USA, he gets a unique chance to stay in America and start a new life. A shy, intelligent man learns the basics of American life, but when he sees its underside, he is disappointed. But you can't go home anymore. A big role in the film went to Savely Kramarov, who by that time had emigrated to the United States. And Mikhail Shufutinsky flashes by.
Perhaps the most famous American movie about Russians. A thunderstorm of the criminal world, a Moscow policeman played by Arnold Schwarzenegger is on the trail of a Georgian mobster who, using his connections in America, seeks to get the Soviet Union hooked on cocaine. To catch the bandit, Schwarzenegger goes to Chicago, where a local chatterbox (James Belushi) becomes his partner. Together they smash half the city to pieces and defeat evil.
A huge comet is rushing towards our planet, which threatens to wipe out all life from the face of the earth. To prevent a catastrophe, the Russian-American spaceship "Messiah" is sent to the comet; the team must destroy the ill-fated celestial body with the help of nuclear explosions. However, the explosion does not destroy the comet, but splits it into two parts, which continue to fly to Earth. The commander of the ship understands that they have a chance to eliminate a large fragment by driving the ship into a fault and detonating the remaining nuclear charges there. Russians and Americans in a single impulse decide to sacrifice their lives for the sake of saving humanity.
In the famous "Armageddon", not only Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck are heroes. In the middle of the picture, Lev Andropov appears on the screen — a Russian cosmonaut who has been on duty alone at the Mir orbital station for a year and a half. American shuttles, designed to save the world, arrive at the light for refueling. Suddenly, the fuel ignites, the station explodes, but thanks to Andropov's decisive actions, the astronauts remain alive.
In the film, based on real events, Harrison Ford plays a heroic captain of a Soviet nuclear submarine. During the trip to the K-19, an accident occurs, and a radiation leak begins on the ship. Sailors manually repair damage in the reactor compartment, receiving a large dose of radiation. The captain decides to sink the boat, and the crew picks up the American destroyer that came up. Seven sailors die a week later, and later — another 20 people.
CIA agent Napoleon Solo is a real ace, he has dozens of successful operations behind him. Only one person in the world can compare with him — a young and extremely promising KGB officer Ilya Kuryakin. Their confrontation is taking on frightening proportions. But then a secret criminal organization is announced, intending to disrupt the fragile balance of power on the planet through the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Solo and Kuryakin bury the hatchet and work together for the benefit of humanity.