Trivia / Citizen X

• California Doubling: Set in Russia, shot in Hungary.
• Completely Different Title:
  • Finland: The Beast is Coming
• Fake Russian: The main players are from everywhere but Russia: Stephen Rea is Irish, Donald Sutherland is Canadian, Max von Sydow is Swedish, Jeffrey DeMunn is American, and Joss Ackland is British. Even the actors in minor roles are not Russian but Hungarian, except for Radu Amzulescu, who plays Federenko, who’s Romanian, and Ion Caramitru, who plays Tatefsky, the committee member who (briefly and ineffectually) challenges Bondarchuk, who was one of Romania’s most distinguished actor/directors.

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