The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1

Name: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1
Genre: Mystery, Adventure, Crime, TV Movie
Released: 1981-07-25
Duration: 1 h 14 min
Rating: 8.7
Cast: Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya, Boryslav Brondukov, Evgeniy Steblov

Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона: Собака Баскервилей. Часть 1 (1981)

Timing: 1:14 (74 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1981-07-25

Country

Soviet Union

Production

Lenfilm, Gosteleradio USSR

Genre

Mystery, Adventure, Crime, TV Movie

Budget

Box office

Website

Director

Igor Maslennikov

Actors

Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya, Boryslav Brondukov, Evgeniy Steblov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksandr Adabashyan, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Oleg Yankovskiy, Irina Kupchenko
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Camera operator

Vladimir Ilin

Composer

Vladimir Dashkevich

Artist

Berta Manevich

Audition

Editing

Lyudmila Obrazumova
Whole Team (34)

Short description

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes, ensuring the film's popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other features of this best entry in the series include excellent exterior shots which closely match the novel's setting in the Dartmoor marshland, as well as an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Livanov -Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars the internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as the villain Stapleton.

What's left behind the scenes

Anastasia Vertinskaya, Svetlana Orlova, Lyubov Polishchuk, Zhanna Bolotova, Matlyuba Alimova, and Svetlana Toma auditioned for the role of Beryl Stapleton.
The distinctive dialogues between Sir Henry and Barrymore, which became the basis for numerous jokes, were improvised by Nikita Mikhalkov (Henry) and Alexander Adabashyan (Barrymore) during filming.
Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov and Boris Ivanov auditioned for the role of Barrymore.
The film is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's novella "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1902).
Marianna Vertinskaya, Irina Muravyova, Elena Koreneva, and Larisa Udovichenko auditioned for the role of Laura Lyons.
Oleg Dal, Yuri Bogatyryov, and Alexander Kaydanovsky auditioned for the role of Jack Stapleton.
Anatoly Solonitsyn, Igor Yasulovich, Pyotr Merkuryev, Eduard Martsevich, and Sergei Zamorev auditioned for the role of Mortimer.
Nikolai Gubenko and Igor Vasilyev auditioned for the role of Henry Baskerville.
As in Maslennikov's two previous Sherlock Holmes films, Yuri Veksler was intended to be the cinematographer for 'The Hound of the Baskervilles,' but he suffered a heart attack. Consequently, two new cinematographers were urgently hired for the film: Vladimir Ilyin was responsible for location shooting, while Dmitry Dolinin worked in the studio.
Aleksandr Adabashyan, who played Barrymore, wears his wedding ring on his right hand, as is customary in Russia (and in the USSR at the time). An English Barrymore, however, should wear his wedding ring on the left hand.