Moscow On The Hudson (1984)

Vladimir Ivanoff (Robin Williams) is quite and reserved Russian circus performer who is fed up with the situation in his country and moreover the Soviet Union. During a tour of America, Vladimir decides, along with other performers, to defect as America is truly the land of his dreams. While he shops at Bloomingdales, he makes acquaintances with a security guard (Cleavant Derricks) who is humored by Ivanoff’s candid love for the United States. He also meets a young Italian woman (Maria Conchita Alonso) who he falls in love with, and she encourages him to pursue his only true occupational love, music. As he does he learns that while America is a great place to live, its way of life is not all it’s cracked up to be.