20,000 Leagues Across the Land
20,000 Leagues Across the Land | |
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Directed by | Marcello Pagliero |
Written by | Leonid Zorin, Sergey Mikhalkov, , Michel Cournot |
Starring | Léon Zitrone Yuri Belov Nikolay Savin Tatiana Samoilova Jean Rochefort Jean Gaven Valentin Zubkov |
Music by | Nikita Bogoslovsky |
Release dates | |
Countries | USSR France |
Language | Russian |
20,000 Leagues Across the Land (French: Vingt mille lieues sur la terre or "Léon Garros Is Looking for His Friend", Russian: Леон Гаррос ищет друга) is a 1961 Soviet-French feature film by Marcello Pagliero.
Plot[]
During the Second World War and Leon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from a Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years as a journalist Leon with buddies visits the Soviet Union to make a report and accidentally finds Boris. But Boris is not in Moscow, and for the sake of meeting a friend Leon has to take a car halfway across the country... Traveling with the foreigners is translator Nikolai, who in turn is looking for Natasha, his brother's runaway bride.
Actors[]
- Léon Zitrone as Léon Garros, journalist
- Yuri Belov as Nikolay Savin, translator
- Tatiana Samoilova as Natasha, singer
- Jean Rochefort as Fernand
- Jean Gaven as Gregoire
- Valentin Zubkov as Alexey Savin, polar aviator and Natasha's groom
- as Boris Vaganov
- Lyudmila Marchenko as elevator woman in the hotel "Ukraine"
- as chairman of the kolkhoz
- Vladimir Ivashov as Fyodor, a young worker in Bratsk
- as Olga
- as mother of Fyodor
- as maid
- as theatrically
- as Claudia, hotel receptionist
- Zinovy Gerdt as voiceover
External links[]
Categories:
- 1961 films
- Russian-language films
- Soviet films
- French films
- 1961 drama films
- French drama films
- Soviet drama films
- Russian drama films
- Russian films
- Films directed by Marcello Pagliero
- 1960s multilingual films
- French multilingual films
- Soviet multilingual films
- 1960s Soviet film stubs