''The Ballad of Bering and His Friends'' (russian: Баллада о Беринге и его друзьях) is a 1970 Soviet adventure film directed by .
Plot
The film tells the story of Danish explorer
Vitus Bering, who, by decree of
Peter the Great
Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...
in 1725, led the
First Kamchatka expedition and made new discoveries, expanding the borders of the
Russian Empire.
Cast
*
Kārlis Sebris as
Vitus Bering
*
Igor Ledogorov
Igor Vadimovich Ledogorov (russian: И́горь Вади́мович Ледогоров; 9 May 1932 – 10 February 2005) was a Russian actor.
Biography
Igor Ledogorov was born on 9 May 1932 at Moscow. Since the beginning of The Great Patrio ...
as
Dmitry Ovtsyn
Dmitry Leontiyevich Ovtsyn () (unknown - after 1757) was a Russian hydrographer and Arctic explorer. The Ovtsyn family is one of the oldest Russian noble families, originating from the descendants of Rurik, the Murom princes.
Ovtsyn's biography
O ...
*
Yuri Nazarov as
Aleksei Chirikov
Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov (russian: Алексе́й Ильи́ч Чи́риков; 1703 – November 14, 1748) was a Russian navigator and captain who, along with Vitus Bering, was the first Russian to reach the northwest coast of North America. H ...
*
Valentin Nikulin as
Georg Steller
Georg Wilhelm Steller (10 March 1709 – 14 November 1746) was a German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer, who worked in Russia and is considered a pioneer of Alaskan natural history.Evans, Howard Ensign. Edward Osborne Wilson (col.) ...
*
Gennadi Frolov as Starodubtsev
*
Leonid Kuravlyov
*
Vija Artmane
Vija Artmane (born Alīda Artmane; 21 August 1929 in Kaive, Sēme Parish – 11 October 2008 in Strenči) was a Latvian theatre and cinema actress.
Life and career Childhood
Vija Artmane was born Alīda Artmane at the time when Latvia was a s ...
as Anna Bering
*
Roman Tkachuk as Tsar Peter I
*
Dzidra Ritenberga
Dzidra Ritenberga (29 August 1928 – 9 March 2003) was a Latvian actress and film director.
Ritenberga won the best actress award at the 1957 Venice International Film Festival for her performance as ''Malva'' in ''Malva
''Malva'' is ...
as Empress Catherine I
*
Nonna Mordyukova as Empress Anna Ioannovna
Баллада о Беринге и его друзьях (1971) Full Cast & Crew
/ref>
References
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ballad of Bering and His Friends, The
1970 films
1970s Soviet films
1970s Russian-language films
Soviet adventure films
Soviet biographical films
1970s adventure films
1970s biographical films