Dersu Uzala
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
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Dersu Uzala is a 1975 epic biographical adventure drama film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa. Shot in Russian, it is his only non-Japanese-language film and only 70mm film. An international co-production between Japan and the Soviet Union, shot at the peak of the East-West detente, the film is based on the 1923 memoir Dersu Uzala by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, about his exploration of the Sikhote-Alin region of the Russian Far East over the course of multiple expeditions in the early 20th century.The film is about the friendship between a Russian explorer, Captain Arsenyev, and a nomadic Goldi hunter named Dersu Uzala in the Siberian wilderness. The story follows their adventures as Dersu guides Arsenyev's expedition, showcasing his survival skills and deep connection to nature, ultimately highlighting themes of friendship, respect, and the clash between civilization and the natural world.
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- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Starring
- Yuriy Solomin, Maksim Munzuk, Mikhail Bychkov, B. Khorulev, Vladimir Kremena, Aleksandr Pyatkov, Svetlana Danilchenko, Dmitri Korshikov
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