Incident at Map Grid 36-80

Incident at Map Grid 36-80 (Russian: Случай в квадрате 36-80, translit. Sluchay v kvadrate 36-80) is a 1982 Soviet military action movie by Mikhail Tumanishvili. Total number of Soviet audience estimated 33 million 100 thousand.^[1]

Cast

Russian characters

• Boris Shcherbakov as Maj. Gennady Volk
• Mihai Volontir as Capt. Sergey Skiba
• Anatoli Kuznetsov as Maj. General Pavlov
• Boris Tokarev as navigating officer Lieut. Vladimir Pavlov
• Valery Malyshev as Prap. Leonid Gudkov
• Vladimir Sedov as Admiral Spirin

American characters

• Omar Volmer as Admiral Rink
• Paul Butkevich as Terner
• Vytautas Tomkus as Maj. Armstrong
• Ivars Kalniņš as Allan

Critical reception

According to Tony Shaw, Professor of Contemporary History at University of Kansas, the film serves as a Soviet counterpart to Rambo: First Blood Part II.^[2] According to Robert D. English, the positive depiction of the Soviets in contrast to the Americans is an example of the methods used to shape cultural perceptions during the late Cold War.^[3]

References

1. ↑ Случай в квадрате 36-80 [Incident at Map Grid 36-80] (HTML) (in Russian). Kinopoisk.ru. 
2. ↑ Shaw, Tony; Youngblood, Denise J. (2010). Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. p. 190. ISBN 0-7006-1743-4. 
3. ↑ English, Robert D.; Halperin, Jonathan J. (1987). The Other side: how Soviets and Americans perceive each other. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers. p. 114. ISBN 0-88738-687-3. 

External links

• Incident at Map Grid 36-80 on IMDb