

06/04/1984
A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.

Robin Williams
as Vladimir Ivanoff

María Conchita Alonso
as Lucia Lombardo

Cleavant Derricks
as Lionel Witherspoon

Alejandro Rey
as Orlando Ramirez

Savely Kramarov
as Boris, KGB agent

Ilya Baskin
as Anatoly Cherkasov

Oleg Rudnik
as Yuri

Aleksandr Beniaminov
as Vladimir's Grandfather

Lyudmila Kramarevskaya
as Vladimir's Mother

Ivo Vrzal-Wiegand
as Vladimir's Father

Tiger Haynes
as Lionel's Grandfather

Eyde Byrde
as Lionel's Mother

Robert MacBeth
as Lionel's Stepfather

Donna Ingram-Young
as Leanne Witherspoon

Olga Talyn
as Svetlana

Aleksandr Narodetsky
as Leonid

Pierre Orcel
as Young French Man

Stephanie Cotsirilos
as Veronica Cohen

Frederick Strother
as Bill

Anthony Cortino
as Male Clerk

Betsy Mazursky
as Bloomingdale's Manager

Kaity Tong
as Kaity Tong

Royce Rich
as Bloomingdale's Cop

Christopher Wynkoop
as Agent Ross, FBI

Lyman Ward
as Agent Williams, Justice Dept.

Joe Lynn
as Mean Man on Subway

Joy Todd
as Blanche

Paul Mazursky
as Dave

Thomas Ikeda
as Korean Cab Driver

Barbara Montgomery
as Mrs. Marlowe

Adalberto Santiago
as Latin Band Leader

Sam Moses
as Dr. Reddy

Yakov Smirnoff
as Lev

Sam Stoneburner
as Panama Hat

Michael Greene
as Texan

Rosetta LeNoire
as The Judge (as Rosetta Le Noire)

Sal Carollo
as

Dana Lorge
as Wanda

Mikhail Shufutinskiy
as Singer in the restaurant
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