Press
For press: the book and the film
Oleg Vidov: A Memoir, by Oleg Vidov and Joan Borsten Vidov, is out November 9, 2026, from Vidov Publishing. Pre-orders are open on Amazon.
The documentary OLEG: The Oleg Vidov Story (2021), directed by Nadia Tass, streams on Prime Video.
Download the press kit below. For interviews and review copies, write to our publicist, Victoria Talbot, at vickypresspr@gmail.com.
Download the press kit (PDF)
Fact sheet
The facts, checked
Oleg Vidov
Born June 11, 1943, just outside Moscow. Died in 2017, aged 73, in Westlake Village, California.
The escape
Crossed from Yugoslavia into Austria in May 1985. The US embassy in Rome gave him political asylum.
The films
More than 50, including The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Headless Horseman, Red Heat and Thirteen Days.
The animation
In 1992 he and Joan Borsten Vidov bought the rights to a library of Soviet animation and restored it.
The book
Oleg Vidov: A Memoir, by Oleg Vidov and Joan Borsten Vidov. Vidov Publishing. Out November 9, 2026. $29.95 in print, $12.99 on Kindle at Amazon. Translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis.
The documentary
OLEG: The Oleg Vidov Story (2021). Directed by Nadia Tass, narrated by Brian Cox and Costa Ronin. On Prime Video.
What they said
Quotes, with credits
“The Robert Redford of Soviet Cinema.”
Deborah Caulfield, Los Angeles Times
“A star in the USSR, he defected in 1985 and later acquired distribution rights to the famed Soyuzmultfilm animation library.”
The Hollywood Reporter, May 16, 2017
“Arguably, he was the most popular young actor of his generation.”
From the documentary OLEG
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