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Backpackers tortured in Russia. Title of movie?

by Guest2873 | earlier

Hi, I hope you can help me with this one. I saw this movie when i was a kid a long time ago and I do not remember the title. Here is the plot: I think its 2 backpackers travelling in Finland, they end up crossing the border to Russia, and get arrested by the police, or military police. They get tortured. I remember a part, one of the backpackers comments on the Russian police drinking a Coke or Pepsi, he says they drink Coke (it was probably Pepsi) here, I hope he chokes on it. The police hear him and stick a pen in a bullet hole in the backpacker leg. They eventually end up in this underground prison where the inmates play a chess game where the pieces are human beings that get killed if the piece they are representing gets eaten. Finally the backpackers try to find a way to escape and I think that eventually do. Maybe one gets killed in the process. Does this ring a bell? Can you tell me the name of movie now?

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Guest23279715

Hello,

This was the 1986 film Born American, directed and co-written by Renny Harlin. There were actually three U.S. students who, after crossing the Finnish-Russian border for the fun of it, are captured and tortured by the Russian authorities.
It was originally suspected to star Chuck Norris but he backed out after filming was delayed by funding difficulties and his son, Mike Norris, landed the lead instead. A Finnish demonstration, this was at that the time the bulk expensive film ever to have been organized in Finland. The Finnish central social family members excluded the picture, because of ad of extreme hatred against Russian nationality. The success of the film in the United States sanctioned Harlin to receive his foot in the door in Hollywood.
I hope you got the answer what you are looking for.

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