Russian actor Vitaly Solomin would have turned 76 today.  He played an absolutely perfect Watson in the Lenfilm series the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.  (the 'old' Russian Holmes series)  Here is a link to a lovely youtube video tribute to Solomin:  www.youtube.com/watch

Happy birthday Vitaly Solomin!

alek_morse referenced this in his lj, so I'm reposting the link here, since I'm guessing not many of you on my f-list read Russian (just to be clear, I don't either), but the review itself is in English.

The Curious-Incident of the Russian Sherlock Holmes is a very insightful review of the "old" Russian Series with Livanov and Solomin. If you haven't seen ( Read more... )

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This is from Google translate, so it's a little disjointed, but the sense of it comes across pretty well. If you read Russian, the original is in
ru_sherlockianaVasily Livanov : "This is not Holmes, but some punks ( Read more... )