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Gottfried John playing General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov
Born in Berlin, Germany on 29th August 1942
Starred In Goldeneye (1995)
film information
General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov played by Gottfried John is the second villain of Goldeneye. After Bond and Alec Trevelyan break into a Russian chemical factory in the pre-tile sequence, Ourumov holds Alec at gunpoint whilst Bond lays detonators.
After ‘killing’ Alec Ourumov accompanies Xenia Zaragevna Onatopp to the Severnaya Space Facility, where she murders all the staff (or so she thinks). Ourumov later reports to Dimitri Mishkin where he is informed that Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova has escaped, arranging Boris Grishenko to meet and kidnap her.
Ourumov arrives a bit late when Dimitri Mishkin interrogates Bond and Natalya. Ourumov shoots Mishkin using Bonds gun, then attempts to kill Bond pretending they shot Mishkin and were killed while trying to escape. After escaping by running through some Russian archives, Natalya is caught by Ouromov’s men. In the following exciting sequence Bond drives a Russian Tank through the streets of St Petersburg following Ouromov’s car, leaving a path of destruction behind him. Bond parks his tank in the oncoming path of Alec’s Armour Train where he manages to bring the train to a halt. Bond boards the train, and after holding Alec and Xenia at gunpoint, he tells Alec to release Natalya. Ourumov is killed when Alec and Xenia make the Russian General into a sacrificial lamb.
character information
General Ourumov is the former Soviet Colonel in charge of a Russian chemical weapons factory seen in the pre-title sequence. After being promoted, Ourumov takes charge of the Severnaya Space Facility. General Ourumov sides with Alec Trevelyan as they conduct an elaborate scheme to use the Goldeneye satellites for personal profit. They plan to hack into British banks moments before the Goldeneye blast wipes out any trace of the crime. British analysts see Ourumov as the next ‘iron man’ of Russia. While Ourumov is not physically menacing, he still portrays an imposing presence. §
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