Dersu Uzala

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.

Cast

Yuriy Solomin

as Arsenev

Maksim Munzuk

as Dersu Uzala

Mikhail Bychkov

as Otryad Arseneva

B. Khorulev

Vladimir Kremena

as Turtwigin

Aleksandr Pyatkov

as Olenin

Svetlana Danilchenko

as Anna

Dmitri Korshikov

as Wowa son of Arsenjev

Suimenkul Chokmorov

as Jan Bao

Daniil Netrebin

as Politseyskiy

Reviews

CinemaSerf

At the start of the twentieth century, a group of soldiers are sent to explore the wilderness of their Eastern Siberian province. Led by "Capt. Arseniev" (Yuriy Solomin) they venture deep into the unforgiving territory where they are fortunate to encounter the local Goldi hunter "Dersu" (Maksim Munz...

deepkino

Akira Kurosawa's film, based on the memoirs of the Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev. In 1976, it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, earning Akira Kurosawa the distinction of being the only director to have won this award twice at the time. It teaches lessons about friendship, love of na...

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