''Dersu Uzala'' (russian: Дерсу Узала) is a 1961
Soviet
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film adapted from the
book
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by
Vladimir Arsenyev
Vladimir Klavdiyevich Arsenyev, (russian: Влади́мир Кла́вдиевич Арсе́ньев; 10 September 1872 – 4 September 1930) was a Russian explorer of the Far East who recounted his travels in a series of books — "По ...
about his travels in the
Russian Far East
The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is admin ...
with the native trapper
Dersu Uzala
Dersu Uzala (russian: Дерсу Узала; 1849–1908) was a Nanai trapper and hunter. He worked as a guide for Vladimir Arsenyev who immortalized him in his 1923 book '' Dersu Uzala''. The book was adapted into two feature films, with the ve ...
. The film was directed by
Agasi Babayan from a screenplay by screenwriter
Igor Bolgarin. The film starred actors
Adolf Shestakov and
Kasym Zhakibayev.
Cast
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Adolf Shestakov
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Kasym Zhakibayev
* Aleksandr Baranov
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N. Gladkov
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Lev Lobov
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Spiridon Grigoryev
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A. Yevstifyev
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Mikhail Medvedev
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Pyotr Lyubeshkin
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Nikolai Khryashchikov
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People Royalty
* Nicholas I of Russia (1796–1855), or Nikolay I, Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855
* Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918), or Niko ...
See also
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Dersu Uzala
Dersu Uzala (russian: Дерсу Узала; 1849–1908) was a Nanai trapper and hunter. He worked as a guide for Vladimir Arsenyev who immortalized him in his 1923 book '' Dersu Uzala''. The book was adapted into two feature films, with the ve ...
'' (1975), a Soviet-Japanese film version directed by
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dyna ...
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Dersu Uzala Info
1961 films
1961 in the Soviet Union
Soviet adventure films
1960s Russian-language films
Films set in Russia
Russian Far East
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