Dersu Uzala

Дерсу Узала (1975)

Timing: 2:21 (141 min)

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All about film

Video 2

Photo 51

Actors and characters

Release date

1975-08-02

Country

Japan,

Production

Mosfilm, Daiei Film, Atelier 41

Genre

Action, Adventure, Drama

Budget

$4 000 000

Revenue

$14 480

Website

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Actors

Yuriy Solomin, Maksim Munzuk, Mikhail Bychkov, Vladimir Kremena, Aleksandr Pyatkov, Svetlana Danilchenko, Dmitri Korshikov, Suimenkul Chokmorov, Daniil Netrebin, Nikolay Volkov
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Yōichi Matsue, Nikolai Sizov

Operator

Asakazu Nakai

Composer

Isaak Shvarts

Artist

Audition

Editing

Valentina Stepanova
All team (18)

• The plot is based on the novel of the same name by traveler and explorer of the Far East Vladimir Arseniev (1872-1930).
• Before the start of filming, employees of the Soviet embassy in Japan contacted Akira Kurosawa and offered him to make a film for the Soviet Union. They argued that television in the USSR was not yet very well developed, and the country lacked its own screenwriters and directors.
• Akira Kurosawa hoped to film it back in the 1950s, but much time was spent adapting the plot to Japanese realities. He could never have imagined that one day he would film it with Soviet actors in the USSR.
• The film's creative team consisted of about a hundred people, and only six of them were Japanese. There was only one translator for everyone.
• It took 3 years to make the film.
• To make the tiger attack scene more realistic, it was decided to use a wild animal, not a trained one.
• Before work began on the film, employees of the Soviet embassy in Japan contacted Akira Kurosawa and offered to have him make a film for the Soviet Union. They argued that television in the USSR was not yet well-developed and that the country lacked its own screenwriters and directors.
• Akira Kurosawa had hoped to film it as early as the 1950s, but much time was spent adapting the plot to Japanese realities.