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In the seventies Berkoff worked with Stanley Kubrick on A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon, and with Antonioni in The Passenger. He had the basis for a cult film career.
A TV mini-series about the fall of the Tsar. Olivier and many other British actors are in the film. A tiresome overlong film, which suffers badly from comparisons with Dr Zhivago. In Berkoff´s very short non-speaking role he is one of Lenin's revolutionaries.
Lenin, and in the background Berkoff looks on.
Berkoff like everyone else is lost amid the hoards of stars. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner in 1971.
A small role in Stanley Kubrick´s filming of the Anthony Burgess novel. The novel, about violence and using futuristic Russian slang, has elements of Berkoff´s East. Berkoff plays the sadistic policeman, so an early version of his Rambo role, in a scene just after McDowell is arrested. Berkoff's use of body language is spot on. Directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1971.
Jack Nicholson directed by Antonioni. A disillusioned reporter in the desert takes on the identity of anther man who has died, and he turns up at the appointments in the dead man's diary. The reporter finds he is involved in gun running. A very tedious very long film, Nicholson is not suited to Antonioni´s style and the result is plodding dialogue and uninspired acting by everyone. Berkoff has a minor role as the lover in a relationship falling apart. His lines are stilted and there is no emotion between the two ex-lovers. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1975.
Kubrick´s period piece filmed, unusually for him, outside Britain, in Ireland. Berkoff´s second Kubrick film alongside A Clockwork Orange. Berkoff has two short scenes as Lord Ludd, a dandy. He loses at cards to Robert Ryan and then loses at swords in a duel. Directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1975.
A tiresome and reverential film of novel by Henry Fielding- surely the last thing to do with Fielding. By Tony Richardson from 1977 with Gielgud and other well-known British actors fill up the cast. |
