‘Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story’

‘Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story’, a U.S.-Russia co-production will premiere this year at the Moscow International Film Festival April 23 and 25, 2021, the spiritual home of this great actor, once called the Robert Redford of the USSR. The 95-minute documentary which memorializes his rise to fame, his ill-fated marriage into the inner circles of the Brezhnev family, and his desperate escape to the West by illegally crossing a border was directed by Nadia Tass and produced by Joan Borsten.

Joan, whom he met in Rome, and married in the U.S., states:

This film is about my late husband, but it is not a “vanity” project. His life was so unique and interesting it deserves to be documented.

I grew up in Hollywood (my father was a studio executive). For more than ten years I worked first as a political reporter for Israel’s respected English language daily Jerusalem Post and then became an entertainment reporter for the LA Times Calendar section…