An intrepid television journalist sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Union has trouble sticking to her assignment when she unearths a horrific experimental drug trial involving children. Determined to prepare a video that will show the world exactly what's been going on, she dodges the long arm of the KGB and falls into bed with a Communist bureaucrat.
Acting
Geneviève Bujold commits fully to this bonkers premise.
Production
Actually shot in Moscow — rare Western access for 1980.
Director
Paul Almond
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of the first Western productions granted location shooting in the USSR — the crew smuggled extra film stock fearing confiscation.
The film bombed critically and commercially, with Roger Ebert calling it 'inexplicable' — yet it's become a fascinating artifact of pre-Glasnost Western anxiety.
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