OLEG, Award-Winning Documentary Narrated by Brian Cox About Soviet-Era Film Star, Debuts on Amazon Prime

    LOS ANGELES, CA, November 25, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The feature-length documentary OLEG, directed by acclaimed Australian filmmaker Nadia Tass and narrated by Brian Cox (Succession) is now available to stream on Amazon Prime in the US and the UK. The film, which tells the extraordinary life story of Soviet Russian cinema icon Oleg Vidov, brings a captivating journey of fame, defection, and resilience to audiences following a successful run at film festivals worldwide.

OLEG is produced by Joan Borsten Vidov, Oleg's widow and a former American entertainment journalist, who spent three years creating this powerful documentary. The film is narrated by BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Emmy-winning actor Brian Cox (Succession) and features Costa Ronin (The Americans, Homeland) as the voice of Young Oleg.

The film is directed by one of Australia's most prominent directors Nadia Tass (Amy, Malcolm, Matching Jack). Additionally, Borsten assembled an international team alongside Tass with Italy's Andrea Guerra (Hotel Rwanda) who composed the original music. The editor is Leonard Feinstein (Darfur Now), and the writer/editor is Cory Taylor (JFK: A President Betrayed).

"OLEG is a story of courage, art, and resilience," says Tass. "It explores the legacy of one of the Soviet Union's most celebrated actors and his daring defection to the West. It's an honor to bring Oleg's story to North American audiences."

The trailer is available here: https://bit.ly/OlegTrailer

OLEG now on Amazon Prime. The film is $2.99 to stream, $9.99 to own, in HD.

Visit the film's official website: www.olegvidovfilm.com for more details and updates.

For press inquiries, interviews requests or to request a review screener, please contact:

Phillip Nakov
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Joan Borsten (Producer) was born in Santa Monica, California. Joan did her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley and her graduate work at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. In 1985, while working for the LA Times and living in Rome, she met her husband-to-be Oleg Vidov, who had just dramatically defected to the west, a few months later, the new couple moved to Los Angeles. Joan began a new chapter of her career working as a film industry executive. In 1992, Films by Jove, the film production and distribution company she and Oleg founded, acquired the international rights to an award-winning Russian animation library. They partnered with Mikhail Baryshnikov, who invited 36 leading actors to re-voice the stunningly beautiful animation, and subsequently released the films around the world. This instantly popularized Russian animation which had previously been seen primarily at a few film festivals. But, in 2007, the Russian State intervened and under the direction of the Kremlin, a Russian Oligarch bought back the rights to the Russian animation film library and all the rights and all the masters Oleg and Joan had worked so hard to restore, were gifted to a state-owned television station.

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