The Hound of the Baskervilles (Russian: Собака Баскервилей) is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of the same name. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes, ensuring the film's popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other features of ...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Russian: Собака Баскервилей) is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of the same name. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes, ensuring the film's popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other features of this entry in the series include exterior shots which closely match the novel's setting in the Dartmoor marshland, as well as an all-star cast: in addition to the Livanov -Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian actor Oleg Yankovsky as the villain Stapleton.
In a comedic departure from the novel, the character of Sir Henry has a profound disdain for oatmeal, a fact which becomes a subject of several heated arguments with the butler Barrymore throughout the film....
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