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Bookmark this pageStreets of Gold (1986)
Director: Joe Roth
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From Time Out Film Guide
Brandauer plays an exiled Soviet boxing champ, now a self-pitying drunk and washer-up in a New York Russian restaurant. Banned from fighting in the Soviet Union for using his anti-Semitic coach as a punch-bag, he takes on a couple of local prospects, training them up for a grudge match against a visiting Soviet team. You can guess the rest, right down to the Rocky-style finale. Director Roth never uses a short jab when he can take a wild swing, usually at the cold inhumanity of Soviet society.Author: NF
Cast & crew
Director: Joe Roth
Producer: Joe Roth, Harry J Ufland
Cast: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adrian Pasdar, Wesley Snipes, Angela Molina, Elya Baskin, Rainbow Harvest, Daniel O'Shea, John Mahoney full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 94 mins
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