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, Semyon Klebanov, Michel Cournot |
| Starring |
Léon Zitrone Yuri Belov Nikolay Savin Tatiana Samoilova Jean Rochefort Jean Gaven Valentin Zubkov Evgeny Burenkov |
| Music by | Nikita Bogoslovsky |
| Country |
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 1960 Soviet-French feature film by Marcello Pagliero.
The film premiered in the USSR was held January 13, 1961, and in France was January 18, 1961.
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
- Evgeny Burenkov as Boris Vaganov
- Lyudmila Marchenko as elevator woman in the hotel "Ukraine"
- Antonina Maksimova as chairman of the kolkhoz
- Vladimir Ivashov as Fyodor, a young worker in Bratsk
- Valentina Kutsenko as Olga
- Nina Nikitina as mother of Fyodor
- Margarita Zharova as maid
- Alexei Vanin as theatrically
- Tamara Yarenko as Claudia, hotel receptionist
- Zinovy Gerdt as voiceover