The Twentieth Century Approaches

The Twentieth Century Begins
Directed by	Igor Maslennikov
Produced by	Lenfilm
Written by	A. Conan Doyle (novel) Igor Maslennikov Yuri Veksler
Starring	Vasily Livanov Vitaly Solomin Borislav Brondukov
Music by	Vladimir Dashkevich
Cinematography	Dmitri Dolinin Vladimir Ilyin
Distributed by	Lenfilm Gosteleradio
Release dates	1986 (1986)
Running time	102 minutes (in 2 parts)
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Twentieth Century Approaches (Russian: Двадцатый век начинается) is a 1986 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories about Sherlock Holmes. It is the fifth film in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson film series directed by Igor Maslennikov.

The film is based on four stories by Conan Doyle – "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Adventure of the Second Stain", "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans", "His Last Bow".^[1]

Cast

Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes
Vitaly Solomin as Dr. Watson
Rina Zelyonaya as Mrs. Hudson (uncredited)^[2]
Borislav Brondukov as Inspector Lestrade (voiced by Igor Yefimov)
Boris Klyuyev as Mycroft Holmes
Innokenti Smoktunovsky as Prime Minister Lord Thomas Bellinger
Aleksandr Romantsov as Sir Trelauney Hope, European Minister
Yelena Safonova as Lady Hilda Trelauney-Hope
Larisa Guzeyeva as Ma'am Anry Furnie
Viktor Koretsky
Yevgeni Platokhin
Yekaterina Zinchenko as Mrs. Watson
O. Aksenov
B. Velichko
Konstantin Vorobyev
Vladimir Kalish
Arkadi Koval
Mikhail Morozov as Smith
Vladimir Tatosov
Leonid Kuravlyov as Von Bork (uncredited)

References

External links

The Twentieth Century Approaches at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Igor Maslennikov

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson	Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981) The Treasures of Agra (1983) The Twentieth Century Approaches (1986) Remembrance of Sherlock Holmes (2000)

Other films	Sentimentalny roman (1976)

Screen adaptations of Sherlock Holmes stories

Silent films

Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905)
Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes (1910)
A Study in Scarlet (1914)
Detektiv Braun (1914)
Der Hund von Baskerville (1914)
The Valley of Fear (1916)
Sherlock Holmes (1916)
Sherlock Holmes (1922)
Der Hund von Baskerville (1929)

Norwood series

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921)
The Sign of Four (1923)

Wontner series

Rathbone-Bruce
series

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Voice of Terror (1942)
Secret Weapon (1943)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
The Spider Woman (1944)
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
The Pearl of Death (1944)
House of Fear (1945)
The Woman in Green (1945)
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Terror by Night (1946)
Dressed to Kill (1946)

Maslennikov
series

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)
The Treasures of Agra (1983)
The Twentieth Century Approaches (1986)

Stoll series (shorts)

By actor

Clive Brook	The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929) Sherlock Holmes (1932)

Peter Cushing	The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) The Masks of Death (1984)

Christopher Lee	The Deadly Necklace (1962) The Leading Lady (1991) Incident at Victoria Falls (1991)

Christopher Plummer	Silver Blaze (1977) Murder by Decree (1979)

Ian Richardson	The Sign of Four (1983) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983) Murder Rooms (2000)

Matt Frewer	The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000) The Sign of Four (2001) The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002) The Royal Scandal (2003)

Ian Hart (as Watson)	The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) The Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)

Robert Downey, Jr.	Sherlock Holmes (2009) A Game of Shadows (2011)

Other films

The Speckled Band (1931)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)
A Study in Scarlet (1933)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937)
A Study in Terror (1965)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse (1983)
The Case of Marcel Duchamp (1984)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
Hands of a Murderer (1990)
The Crucifer of Blood (1991)
1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)
The Hound of London (1993)
Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
Sherlock Holmes (2010)
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
Mr. Holmes (2015)

Comedies,
pastiches,
and parodies

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
The Limejuice Mystery or Who Spat in Grandfather's Porridge? (1930)
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937)
The Case of the Screaming Bishop (1944)
Deduce, You Say! (1956)
They Might Be Giants (1971)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (1976)
Sherlock Pink (1976)
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
The Private Eyes (1980)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Without a Clue (1988)
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (1997)
Zero Effect (1998)
A Samba for Sherlock (2001)
Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler (2006)
Aria the Scarlet Ammo (2008)
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes (2009)
Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (2010)
Sherlock Yack (2011)
The Empire of Corpses (2015)

Television
series

Sherlock Holmes (1951)
Sherlock Holmes (1954)
Sherlock Holmes (1965–68)
Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982)
The Baker Street Boys (1983)
Sherlock Hound (1984–85)
Sherlock Holmes (1984–94)
- episodes
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (1999–2001)
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (2000)
Sherlock (2010–present)
Elementary (2012–present)
Sherlock Holmes (2013)
Sherlock Holmes (2014)

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