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
A feature film or feature-length film is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term ''feature film'' originall ...
by
Marcello Pagliero
Marcello Pagliero (15 January 1907 – 18 October 1980) was an Italian film director, actor, and screenwriter.
Pagliero was born in London and died in Paris. He is perhaps best known for his performance in the Roberto Rossellini film '' Rome, ...
.
Plot
During the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...
Leon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from a
Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years as a journalist Leon with buddies visits the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
to make a report and accidentally finds Boris. But Boris is not in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...
, 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
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Léon Zitrone
Léon Zitrone (25 November 1914 – 25 November 1995) was a Russian-born French journalist and television presenter.
Biography
Zitrone was born in Petrograd, Russia. He arrived in France with his family fleeing communism at the age of six. H ...
as Léon Garros, journalist
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Yuri Belov
Yuri Vladimirovich Belov (russian: Ю́рий Влади́мирович Бело́в; May 27, 1929 – July 23, 2017) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad). He was a member of the Sain ...
as Nikolay Savin, translator
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Tatiana Samoilova
Tatiana Yevgenyevna Samoilova (russian: link=no, Татья́на Евге́ньевна Само́йлова; 4 May 1934 – 4 May 2014) was a Soviet and Russian film actress best known for her lead role in ''The Cranes Are Flying'' (1957). She ...
as Natasha, singer
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Jean Rochefort as Fernand
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Jean Gaven as Gregoire
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Valentin Zubkov
Valentin Ivanovich Zubkov (russian: Валенти́н Ива́нович Зубко́в; 12 May 1923 – 18 January 1979) was a Soviet film actor. He was born in Peschanoye Settlement of Ryazan Province. He finished Armavir Military Aviation Sc ...
as Alexey Savin, polar aviator and Natasha's groom
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Evgeny Burenkov as Boris Vaganov
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Lyudmila Marchenko as elevator woman in the hotel "Ukraine"
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Antonina Maksimova as chairman of the kolkhoz
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Vladimir Ivashov
Vladimir Sergeyevich Ivashov (russian: Влади́мир Серге́евич Ивашо́в; 28 August 1939 — 23 March 1995) was a Soviet and Russian actor.
Biography
He had a film career that spanned over 30 years. He is best known for hi ...
as Fyodor, a young worker in
Bratsk
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Valentina Kutsenko as Olga
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Nina Nikitina Nina may refer to:
* Nina (name), a feminine given name and surname
Acronyms
*National Iraqi News Agency, a news service in Iraq
* Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, on the campus of Norwegian University of Science and Technology
* No incom ...
as mother of Fyodor
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Margarita Zharova as maid
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Alexei Vanin as theatrically
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Tamara Yarenko as Claudia, hotel receptionist
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Zinovy Gerdt
Zinovy Yefimovich Gerdt (russian: Зино́вий Ефи́мович Гердт, which is a pseudonym, his real name being Zalman Afroimovich Khrapinovich (За́лман Афро́имович Храпино́вич); 21 September 1916 in Sebez ...
as voiceover
External links
Кадры из фильма*
1961 films
1961 drama films
French drama films
Soviet drama films
Russian drama films
Films directed by Marcello Pagliero
1960s multilingual films
French multilingual films
Soviet multilingual films
1960s French films
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