Dersu Uzala

"There is man and beast at nature's mercy. There is awe and love and reverence. And there is the man called..."

Dec 20 1977 G 2h 22m
Adventure, Biography, Drama

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.

Plot

A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asian hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years later when he returns as the head of a larger expedition. The hunter finds that all of his nature lore is of no help when he accompanies the explorer back to civilization.

Written by

Akira Kurosawa, Yuriy Nagibin, Vladimir Arsenev

Directed by

Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Mikhail Bychkov

Crew

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Production Countries

Soviet Union, Japan

Production Companies

Mosfilm, Daiei Film, Atelier 41

Languages

Awards

Won 1 Oscar. 8 wins & 1 nomination total

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