Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
Леон Гаррос ищет друга
Release: 1961-01-13
·Runtime: 94m
·★ 10.0
Comedy
Drama
During World War II, the Frenchman Léon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from the Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years, Léon, who became a journalist, and his friends came to the USSR to make a report and find Boris in the meantime. In Moscow he doesn't found, and for the sake of meeting with a friend, Garros has to travel around the country by car... The foreigners are accompanied by Nikolai, the translator, who, in turn, is looking for his brother's runaway bride, Natasha.
Production Countries
France
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Gorky Film Studios
Procinex
Cast
Evgeni Burenkov
as Boris Vaganov
Antonina Maksimova
as Antonina Petrovna Stepanova
Aleksey Vanin
as theatergoer (uncredited)
Tamara Yarenko
as Klava (uncredited)
Léon Zitrone
as Léon Garros
Vladimir Ivashov
as Fedya
Olga Stanitsyna
as Vera
Valentina Kutsenko
as Olga
Nina Golovina
as Dasha
Valentin Zubkov
as Andrei
Lyudmila Marchenko
as Masha
Nina Nikitina
as Fedya's mother
Tatyana Samoylova
as Natasha
Yuri Belov
as Nikolai
Jean Gaven
as Grégoire
Zinoviy Gerdt
as сommentator
Irina Radchenko
as hotel administrator (uncredited)
Margarita Zharova
as maid (uncredited)
Lyudmila Egorova
as Svetlana (uncredited)
Jean Rochefort
as Fernand
Crew
Semyon Klebanov
Writer
Vladimir Rapoport
Director of Photography
Grair Garibyan
Director of Photography
Nikita Bogoslovskiy
Original Music Composer
Marcello Pagliero
Director
Leonid Zorin
Writer
Grigoriy Gamburg
Conductor
Sergey Mikhalkov
Writer
Olga Bednova
Costume Design
Arseni Klopotovsky
Special Effects
Isaak Magiton
First Assistant Director