The Soviet Union made the definitive Holmes? Comrade, you won't believe your eyes.
After upsetting the criminal underground in 'the Master Blackmailer' case, Sherlock Holmes has to face his archenemy: Prof. Moriarty.
Acting
Livanov's Holmes: arrogant, vulnerable, utterly mesmerizing.
Production
Soviet-era London somehow feels more authentic than British ones.
Direction
Maslennikov stages Reichenbach as genuine tragedy, not action.
Director
Igor Maslennikov
Vasiliy Livanov
Sherlock Holmes
Vitali Solomin
Dr. Watson
Rina Zelyonaya
Mrs. Hudson
Boryslav Brondukov
Inspector Lestrade
Nikolai Kryukov
Colonel Sebastian Moran
Viktor Yevgrafov
Professor James Moriarty
Aleksandr Zakharov
Ronald Ader
Boris Klyuev
Mycroft Holmes
Aleksey Kozhevnikov
Mr. Murray
Ignat Leyrer
Peter Steiler Jr.
Anatoliy Podshivalov
Marker
Yury Eller
Moriarty's accomplice
Dima Khrilev
Boy from hotel
Vladimir Markov
lord Belmor
Igor Andronnikov
Moriarty's accomplice
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This Soviet series was so beloved in Russia that Livanov got a statue in London — the only foreign actor so honored.
The waterfall scene was filmed at a Georgian location so dangerous that stuntmen refused; the actors did their own climbing.
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