Maschenka (1987)

Anecdotes

• Adapté de : Machenka

Maschenka is a 1987 international film adaptation of the debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published under his pen name V. Sirin in 1926. The film was directed by John Goldschmidt from a screenplay by John Mortimer and stars Cary Elwes as Ganin and Irina Brook as Maschenka.

Production

The motion picture was filmed on location in West Berlin, West Germany and in Helsinki and Katajanokka, Finland. For the sequence depicting Maschenka's arrival by train the producers rented the Russian Imperial Finnish train that once belonged to the Romanov family.

The filming was shadowed by the Chernobyl disaster. Actor Cary Elwes later recounted, I recall a crew meeting being called on a set in a place called Katajanokka, in Helsinki, ... and being told that there was nothing to fear because the winds were in our favor and that the fallout was likely to be blown in another direction. We were warned, however, that as a precaution we probably shouldn't drink the local milk.

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