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Dersu Uzala

7.919752h 21mGMovieAdventureDrama

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

DirectorAkira Kurosawa
WritersYuriy Nagibin·Akira Kurosawa
ProducersYōichi Matsue·Nikolai Sizov

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Criterion ChannelCriterion Channel
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Cast · Directed by Akira Kurosawa

YSYuriy Solomin
Yuriy Solomin
Arsenev
MMMaksim Munzuk
Maksim Munzuk
Dersu Uzala
MB
Mikhail Bychkov
Otryad Arseneva
BK
B. Khorulev
VKVladimir Kremena
Vladimir Kremena
Turtwigin
APAleksandr Pyatkov
Aleksandr Pyatkov
Olenin
SDSvetlana Danilchenko
Svetlana Danilchenko
Anna
DK
Dmitri Korshikov
Wowa son of Arsenjev
SCSuimenkul Chokmorov
Suimenkul Chokmorov
Jan Bao
DNDaniil Netrebin
Daniil Netrebin
Politseyskiy
SZSerafim Zaytsev
Serafim Zaytsev
NV
Nikolay Volkov
Mogilshchik

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