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The Demi-Paradise (also known as Adventure for Two) is a 1943 British comedy film made by Two Cities Films. It stars Laurence Olivier as a Soviet Russian inventor who travels to England to have his revolutionary propeller manufactured, and Penelope Dudley-Ward as the woman who falls in love with him.
Adventure for Two: Directed by Anthony Asquith. With Laurence Olivier, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Marjorie Fielding, Margaret Rutherford. Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships.
Mar 25, 2019 · A major wartime propaganda epic meant to foster better Anglo-Russian relations, which unlike the similar American film “Mission to Moscow” doesn’t go off the deep end. The lengthy story begins with a Russian nautical engineer’s pre-war visit to London.
A Russian inventor tries to cope with British life while helping the country prepare for war.
In 1939, Russian engineer Ivan Kouznetsoff (Laurence Olivier) is in England to tout his new aeronautical design. Unfortunately, the distrustful Brits ignore Ivan's...
The Demi-Paradise (1943) Penelope Dudley-Ward lights up the screen as a spirited industrialist’s daughter who educates a Russian engineer (Olivier) on the mysteries and charms of the English psyche and class system before and after the outbreak of the war.
Synopsis. Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them.
