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Criminal

Only in Hollywood

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When Joan Borsten married actor Oleg Vidov, also known as “the Soviet Robert Redford,” he introduced her to beautiful Soviet animations created in Moscow’s Soyuzmultfilm studio, like Hedgehog in the Fog, by Yuri Norstein. Joan and Oleg eventually acquired the rights to distribute the films outside of the former Soviet Union. One day, Joan realized someone was undercutting their business, and she devised a very Hollywood solution. We talk with Joan Borsten, Andre Violentyev, and former FBI Special Agent and current private investigator, Jake Schmidt. You can learn more about Joan Borsten’s late husband, “the Soviet Robert Redford” in her new documentary, based on his autobiography. It’s called “The Oleg Vidov Story.” Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:31.3

There's a Soviet short film from 1975 called Hedgehog in the Fog.

0:37.0

It's only 10 minutes long.

0:39.0

It's been called the best animated film of all time.

0:43.0

Truly,

0:45.0

The picture, I was a great deal

0:48.0

with the wrong with Shittades

0:50.0

the world. Truly actually, a Russian animation is a kind of an art form. The cartoons there,

1:00.0

they are made without the restrictions that your typical American cartoons are like they don't have to be 26 minutes long

1:06.2

You know for space for commercials that they don't have to have this continuation of a story once the episode is over.

1:14.0

Back in the Soviet Russia, the cartoons were made purely as a way to sort of entertain the kids,

1:22.0

of course,

1:23.0

but also as a kind of art.

1:26.0

They were only as long as they needed to be,

1:29.0

they only told the story the way it ought to be told

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