A series of films on the way we live now
Olga Goes to Hollywood What happens when you leave your homeland - forever? Olga Serova knows that she will probably never see her friends and family in Russia again. She has crossed the world, and ended up in Tinsel Town. But the Hollywood of legend is not what Olga discovers in her everyday life.
Olga, the daughter of an important communist official in the Ministry of Heavy Machinery, is an intense, beautiful and emotional woman. She met her husband Zhenya at the Moscow Circus School, where they both trained as actors. As
'refuseniks', they were secretly filmed by the BBC in Moscow eight years ago.
Now Zhenya can find work only as a Los Angeles taxi- driver. Olga brings up her children in the new world of the corner supermarket and Corky the killer whale. Her story is one of a search for an identity and a home. But what is the price of exile? Reporter David Lomax Photography IAN STONE
Sound recordist RICHARD MANTON Film editor LES NEWMAN
Producer MICHAEL WALDMAN Editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
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