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 the Leon Garros and Boris Vaganov escapes from a Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years as a journalist Leon with buddies visited the Soviet Union to make a report and casually find Boris. But Boris is not in Moscow, and for the sake of meeting a friend Garros have to overtake a car half the country... Together with foreigners is traveling translator Nikolai, who turn to looking for Natasha, his brother's runaway bride.
Actors
- Léon Zitrone - Léon Garros, journalist
- Yuri Belov - Nikolay Savin, translator
- Tatiana Samoilova - Natasha, singer
- Jean Rochefort - Fernand
- Jean Gaven - Gregoire
- Valentin Zubkov - Alexey Savin, polar aviator and Natasha's groom
- Evgeny Burenkov - Boris Vaganov
- Lyudmila Marchenko - elevator woman in the hotel "Ukraine"
- Antonina Maksimova - chairman of the kolkhoz
- Vladimir Ivashov - Fyodor, a young worker in Bratsk
- Valentina Kutsenko - Olga
- Nina Nikitina - mother of Fyodor
- Margarita Zharova - maid
- Alexei Vanin - theatrically
- Tamara Yarenko - Claudia, hotel receptionist
- Zinovy Gerdt - voiceover