Oleg Vidov
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Moscow International Film Festival, 1973

Press

For press: the book and the film

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Press kit

Press kit

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OLEG documentary key art

Fact sheet

The facts, checked

  • Oleg Vidov

    Born June 11, 1943, just outside Moscow. Died in 2017, aged 73, in Westlake Village, California.

  • The escape

    Crossed from Yugoslavia into Austria in May 1985. The US embassy in Rome gave him political asylum.

  • The films

    More than 50, including The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Headless Horseman, Red Heat and Thirteen Days.

  • The animation

    In 1992 he and Joan Borsten Vidov bought the rights to a library of Soviet animation and restored it.

  • The book

    Oleg: A Memoir, by Oleg Vidov and Joan Borsten Vidov. Vidov Publishing. Out 9 November 2026. Translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis.

  • The documentary

    OLEG: The Oleg Vidov Story (2021). Directed by Nadia Tass, narrated by Brian Cox. On Prime Video.

What they said

Quotes, with credits

  • "The Robert Redford of Soviet Cinema."

    Deborah Caulfield, Los Angeles Times

  • "A star in the USSR, he defected in 1985 and later acquired distribution rights to the famed Soyuzmultfilm animation library."

    The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2017

  • "Arguably, he was the most popular young actor of his generation."

    an interviewee in the documentary OLEG

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