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Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century (1987) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1987 · 149 mins · Russian
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- Starring
- Konstantin Vorobyov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Boris Klyuev, Svetlana Smirnova, Arkadiy Koval, Leonid Kuravlyov
The movie was released shortly before the full two‑part television series, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches, aired. In this cut‑down version the entire storyline taken from Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Bruce‑Partington Drawings” was omitted, resulting in a streamlined plot.
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