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20,000 Leagues Across The Land
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 by Marcello Pagliero. Plot During the Second World War Leon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from a Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years as a journalist Leon with buddies visits the Soviet Union to make a report and accidentally finds Boris. But Boris is not in Moscow, 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 * Léon Zitrone as Léon Garros, journalist * Yuri Belov as Nikolay Savin, translator * Tatiana Samoilova as Natasha, singer * Jean Rochefort as Fernand * Jean Gaven as Gregoire * Valentin Zubkov as Alexey Savin, polar aviator and Natasha's groom * Evgeny Burenkov as Boris Vaganov * Lyudmila Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, Open City'' (1945). He moved to France in 1947, and continued to work in film until 1960 and in French television after that. In 1949, he was nominated with six other co-writers for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the Rossellini film ''Paisan''. Selected filmography Director * ''Mist on the Sea'' (1944) * ''Desire'' (1946) * ''A Man Walks in the City'' (1950) * '' The Red Rose'' (1951) * ''La Putain respectueuse'' (1952) * '' Vestire gli ignudi'' (1953) * '' Daughters of Destiny'' (1954) * ''Modern Virgin'' (1954) * ''Walk Into Paradise'' (1956) * '' 20,000 Leagues Across the Land'' (1961) Screenwriter * ''The Two Tigers'' (1941) * ''Souls in Turmoil'' (1942) * ''The Devil's Gondola'' (1946) * ''Paisan'' (1946) Actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |