Deja Vu (1988 film)

Dj Vu is a 1988 SovietPolish comedy thriller that takes place in Soviet Odessa in 1925 and spoofs a lot of gangster films.

In search of his victim, Pollack gets into the most unbelievable situations arising from the peculiarities of the city of Odessa, as well as from mad historical era. Being the first passenger of the ship voyage New YorkOdessa, he is assigned to be accompanied by the Komsomol guide Glushko and is besieged by pioneers and journalists. Jumping from the train and hitting his head, Pollack forgets what he is actually doing there retrograde amnesia, and tries to live up to his cover as an honest professor. Nechyporuk, in turn, learns about the arrival of the killer and is trying to kill him. Pollack experiences several periods of regain and loss of memory a periodical Dj vu while trying to track down Nechyporuk. Finally, Nechyporuk is arrested by Soviet authorities on an unrelated charge and sent to jail. Pollack, having lost the rest of his sanity, ends up in a mental hospital.At one point, as Pollack chases Nechyporuk through the city, both accidentally take part in the filming of the famous Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin. ........

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