| Russian Roulette | |
| Director: | Lou Lombardo |
| Producer: | Elliott Kastner Jerry Bick |
| Based On: | Kosygin is Coming (novel) by Tom Ardies |
| Starring: | George Segal Cristina Raines Denholm Elliott Gordon Jackson Peter Donat Richard Romanus |
| Music: | Michael J. Lewis |
| Cinematography: | Brian West |
| Editing: | Richard Marden |
| Studio: | Bulldog ITC Films |
| Distributor: | Rank Film Distribution (United Kingdom) Avco Embassy (United States) |
| Runtime: | 93 minutes |
| Country: | Canada United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
Russian Roulette is a 1975 British-Canadian thriller film directed by Lou Lombardo and starring George Segal, Cristina Raines and Denholm Elliott.
Shaver (George Segal), a disgraced former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, receives an offer to keep an eye on a Latvian dissident during an upcoming visit to Vancouver by a renegade Soviet Premier in exchange for eventually being reinstated to the force. However, upon accepting the assignment, he finds himself engulfed in a KGB conspiracy to kill the premier during his visit and must clear his own name.
The film was the directorial debut for Lombardo, who is noted primarily as a film editor. It was adapted from Tom Ardies' novel Kosygin Is Coming. It was filmed primarily in Vancouver, where the story also took place.
After being released theatrically in 1975, the film was released to home video on VHS in 1986, and on DVD by Shout! Factory in October 2013 as part of a double feature with Love and Bullets, a Charles Bronson thriller originally released in 1979.[1]