Streets Of Gold

Streets Of Gold (1986)

  • 31% of critics liked it
    (13 reviews)

  • 47% of users liked it
    (105 ratings)

Klaus Maria Brandauer stars in this drama as Alek Neuman, a one-time boxing champion in the Soviet Union. While he was one of the top-ranked Russian fighters of his day, he was never allowed to box in the Olympics, because the Soviets would not permit Jews to compete on their national teams. Many… More

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R, 1 hr. 35 min.
Directed By
Joe Roth
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Nov 14, 1986 Wide
Live Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    A likable, but hardly compelling story.

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    A lot of the film was shot in Brighton Beach, and looks authentic, but everything else is either synthetic or derivative, like the musical score.

  • Paul Attanasio, Washington Post

    It's a wonder nobody had thought of casting Brandauer as a boxer before -- his work is so full of devilish feints and tricky, misleading expressions.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    Streets of Gold starts out to make a statement about the kind of person this Russian emigre was, and it ends up using him as the backdrop for a tired Hollywood formula.

  • Rita Kempley, Washington Post

    A rousing ringside drama with Austrian hunk Klaus Maria Brandauer.

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