20,000 Leagues Across the Land ( or "Léon Garros Is Looking for His Friend", ) is a 1961 Soviet-French feature film by Marcello Pagliero.
Plot During the Second World War Frenchman Leon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from a Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years, Leon who has become a journalist, comes to the Soviet Union with his friends to make a report and accidentally finds Boris. 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