Akira KUROSAWA
Акира КУРОСАВА
Akira KUROSAWA
USSR / Japan, 1975, 145mn 
Colour, fiction
Dersu Uzala
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Дерсу Узала

 

 Dersou Ouzala

 Dersu Uzala

 
Directed by : Akira KUROSAWA (Акира КУРОСАВА)
Writing credits : Akira KUROSAWA (Акира КУРОСАВА), Yuri NAGIBIN (Юрий НАГИБИН)
 
Cast
Mikhail BYCHKOV (Михаил БЫЧКОВ)
Vladimir KREMENA (Владимир КРЕМЕНА)
Maksim MUNZUK (Максим МУНЗУК) ...Dersou Ouzala
Aleksandr PYATKOV (Александр ПЯТКОВ)
Yuri SOLOMIN (Юрий СОЛОМИН) ...Vladimir Arseniev
Nikolay_3 VOLKOV (Николай_3 ВОЛКОВ)
 
Cinematography : Fyodor_2 DOBRONRAVOV (Федор_2 ДОБРОНРАВОВ), Yuri GANTMAN (Юрий ГАНТМАН), Asakazu NAKAI (Асакадзу НАКАИ)
Production design : Yuri RAKSHA (Юрий РАКША)
Music : Isaac SCHWARTZ (Исаак ШВАРЦ)
Sound : Olga BURKOVA (Ольга БУРКОВА)
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 20,4 millions of spectators
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb
Release date in France : 1976-12-22, Site
VOD or DVD release in France : 2003-02-13, Site
Restored version : 2024-03-13, Site

Awards :
First prize Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 1975
FIPRESCI Prize Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 1975
Oscar du meilleur film étranger, 1976

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Ruscico
Editor : Potemkine. 2022. Titre : Dersou Ouzala.
Contenu et Bonus :
Commentaire audio de Charles Tesson
Images d'archives du tournage
Images d'archives de l'explorateur Vladimir Arseniev

Plot synopsis
This Akira Kurosawa film is based on the books by Vladimir Arsenyev, a prominent Russian scientist and explorer of the late 19th-early 20th centuries. It is the story of the writer’s long-standing friendship with a taiga trapper named Dersu Uzala. In the course of their travels, a real-life character, Dersu, was revealing to his friend, the secrets of the Ussuri taiga, the animals’ special ways, the traditions and beliefs of the indigenous people. This motion picture teaches us to approach Nature with loving care, to open up our hearts to man and beast, to bird and flower…
Source : www.ruscico.com
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Actor Yury Solomin, Famous for His Role in Dersu Uzala, Dies at Age 88, The Moscow Times, 2024
Пять ролей Юрия Соломина в кино и театре [Cinq rôles de Youri Solomine au cinéma ou au théâtre], Инга БУГУЛОВА, rg.ru, 2024
Les récompenses internationales les plus prestigieuses obtenues par des films soviétiques et russes, Nikolaï KORNATSKI, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
Dix films pour découvrir la nature unique de Russie, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2022
Les meilleurs films coproduits entre l’URSS et des pays asiatiques, Boris EGOROV, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2022
RUSSIA BEYOND : Le légendaire réalisateur japonais Akira Kurosawa: une passion de toujours pour la Russie, Ajay KAMALAKARAN, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2020
Dersou Ouzala (1975) Akira Kurosawa, NEIL, lecinedeneil.over-blog.com, 2015
Dersou Ouzala (Дерсу Узала) d’Akira Kurosawa. LA MESURE DE L'AMITIÉ, Matthieu BAREYRE, critikat.com, 2012
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Release in France of a restored film, Different cities (France), 2024
- Pessac International History Film Festival, Pessac (France), 2023
- Salon du livre russe "Russkaya literatura", Paris (France), 2022
- Moscow International Festival of Archival Films (Formerly "Belye Stolby"), Moscow (Russia), 2021
- Festival Lumière, Lyon (France), 2020
- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2015
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012
- Bradford International Film Festival, Bradford (United Kingdom), 2011
- Festival international de géographie, Saint Dié (France), 2010
- Festival Cinémascience, Bordeaux (France), 2010
- Vesoul International Asiatic Film Festival, Vesoul (France), 2010
- Cinémas russes à Montauban, Montauban (France), 2010
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2009
- VOD or DVD release in France of the film:, Different cities (France), 2003
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2002
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 1999
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 1976-12-22
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 1975

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