Adventure
Drama
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.
Directors
Yuriy Solomin
Arsenev
Maksim Munzuk
Dersu Uzala
Mikhail Bychkov
Otryad Arseneva
Vladimir Kremena
Turtwigin
Aleksandr Pyatkov
Olenin
Dmitri Korshikov
Wowa son of Arsenjev
Suimenkul Chokmorov
Jan Bao
Daniil Netrebin
Politseyskiy
Nikolay Volkov
Mogilshchik
Vladimir Prikhodko
Russian soldier
Sovetbek Dzhumadylov
(uncredited)
Directors
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Akira Kurosawa's film, based on the memoirs of the Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev. In 1976, it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, earning Akira Kurosawa the distinction of being the only director to have won this award twice at the time. It teaches lessons about friendship, love of nature, and humanism. It is a very impressive film, both in its dialogues and its cinematography; each frame is like a painting or a magnificent nature photograph.
deepkino11 Sep, 2025
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