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, romanized: Leon Garros ishchet druga) is a 1961 Soviet-French feature film by Marcello Pagliero.
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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