The film opens to a forest that is being cleared for development, and Arseniev searching for an unmarked grave of a friend he says he buried 3 years ago. The film then flashes back to Arseniev's surveying expedition to the area of Shkotovo in Ussuri region in 1902. A topographic expedition troop, led by Captain Arseniev (Yury Solomin), encounters a nomadic Goldi hunter named Dersu Uzala (Maxim Munzuk) who agrees to guide them through the harsh frontier. Initially viewed as an uneducated, eccentric old man, Dersu earns the respect of the soldiers through his great experience, accurate instincts, keen powers of observation, and deep compassion. He repairs an abandoned hut and leaves provisions in a birch container so that a future traveler would survive in the wilderness. He deduces the identities and situations of people by analyzing tracks and articles left behind. Read more on Wikipedia.
MPAA Rating: | G |
Genre: | Adventure, Biography, Drama |
Country: | Japan |
Produced By: | Nikolay Sizov, Yoichi Matsue |
Directed By: | Akira Kurosawa |
Written By: | Yuriy Nagibin, Akira Kurosawa, Vladimir Arsenev |
Cast: | Aleksandr Pyatkov, Daniil Netrebin, V. Khlestov, Vladimir Khrulev, V. Lastochkin, Igor Sykhra, V. Koldin, Vladimir Sverba, Sovetbek Dzhumadylov, V. Ignatov, Serafim Zaytsev, S. Sinyavskiy, Yuriy Solomin, M. Tetov, Nikolay Volkov, Vladimir Sergiyakov, Svetlana Danilchenko, Suymenkul Chokmorov, Yanis Yakobsons, Mikhail Bychkov, Maksim Munzuk, Dmitriy Korshikov, Stanislav Marin, Vladimir Prikhodko, Vladimir Kremena, G. Polunin |
In Theaters: | Dec 20, 1977 |
Runtime: | 2 hours 24 minutes |
Production: | Atelier 41, Daiei Studios, Mosfilm |
Available On: | Vudu |