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20,000 Leagues Across the Land

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Wikipedia article




'20,000 Leagues Across the Land' ( or "'Lon Garros Is Looking for His Friend'", ) 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



* Lon Zitrone as Lon 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 Marchenko as elevator woman in the hotel "Ukraine"

* Antonina Maksimova as chairman of the kolkhoz

* Vladimir Ivashov as Fyodor, a young worker in Bratsk

* Valentina Kutsenko as Olga

* Nina Nikitina as mother of Fyodor

* Margarita Zharova as maid

* Alexei Vanin as theatrically

* Tamara Yarenko as Claudia, hotel receptionist

* Zinovy Gerdt as voiceover


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