Gorky Park
A man whose mission is to investigate a homicide which happens in Moscow's Gorky Park works for the Moscow police. Suddenly, he uncovers the real conspiracy which involves the Moscow city government.
8 February 1946, Dublin, Ireland, UK
15 August 1955, Kuhmo, Finland
July 2, 1951 in Imatra, Finland
6 May 1954, Kuopio, Finland
2 January 1957, Tomaszów Lubelski, Lubelskie, Poland
January 01, 2000
Some action-movie slam-bang would have been more satisfying, if ultimately no more coherent.
March 26, 2009
William Hurt is superb as a Moscow militia detective caught between his desires to be simply a good cop and the unfathomable motives of the secret Soviet government, all complicated by an unexpected love for Joanna Pacula.
October 30, 2005
Hopelessly dated and morose -- and much is lost from the bestselling novel.
October 23, 2004
By the end of Gorky Park, we realize that it's not the solution that matters, but what the case itself forced the people to discover about themselves.
August 21, 2004
A crackling good novel is still born on the screen.
October 23, 2014
Gorky Park is well done and unique amid the films of its day. While certainly made with the Cold War as its backdrop, the film never resorts to the Cold War clichés of the time.
May 24, 2003
This is pretty gripping, if somewhat formulaic, stuff.
May 20, 2003
It remains a taut, clever thriller throughout, with Mr. Apted's direction establishing its intensity immediately and sustaining it well.
March 30, 2009
An uneven but fascinating murder mystery.
February 09, 2006
Neither Dennis Potter's screenplay nor the heavyweight cast can raise this adaptation of Martin Cruz Smith's best-selling spy novel above the ordinary.
