20,000 Leagues Across the Land

20,000 Leagues Across the Land (French: Vingt mille lieues sur la terre or "Léon Garros Is Looking for His Friend", Russian: Леон Гаррос ищет друга) is a 1961 Soviet-French feature film by Marcello Pagliero.

20,000 Leagues Across the Land
Directed by	Marcello Pagliero
Written by	Leonid Zorin, Sergey Mikhalkov, Semyon Klebanov, Michel Cournot
Starring	Léon Zitrone Yuri Belov Nikolay Savin Tatiana Samoilova Jean Rochefort Jean Gaven Valentin Zubkov Evgeny Burenkov
Music by	Nikita Bogoslovsky
Release dates	January 13, 1961 (1961-01-13) (USSR) January 18, 1961 (1961-01-18) (France)
Running time	98 minute
Countries	USSR France
Language	Russian

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

• Léon Zitrone as Léon 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

External links

• Кадры из фильма
• Leon Garros ishchet druga at IMDb