The Dream of Russia
おろしや国酔夢譚
Release: 1992-06-25
·Runtime: 123m
·★ 6.2
Drama
History
Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.
Production Countries
Japan
Russia
Production Companies
Daiei Film
Tokuma Shoten
Lenfilm
Cast
Leonard Varfolomeev
Noboru Mitani
as Kudzaemon
Hiroyuki Okita
as Shinzou
Elena Arzhanik
as Sofya Ivanovna Bush
Vitali Solomin
as Shelekhov - Irkutsk nobleman
Sergei Stepanchenko
as Boris - Nevidimov's servant
Ken Ogata
as Koudayu Daikokuya - captain
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
as Tatyana
Elena Borzunova
as reads voiceover (voice)
Evgeniy Evstigneev
as Bush - gardener
Vladimir Eryomin
as Vorontsov - count
Aleksandr Blok
Sergei Parshin
as Russian naval officer
Mikhail Godin
as city dweller
Toshiyuki Nishida
as Atsuzou - navigator
Tohru Emori
as Sadanobu Matsudaira
Yuriy Solomin
as Bezborodko - count
Tatyana Bedova
Boris Klyuev
as Russian naval officer
Igor Taradaikin
as reads voiceover (voice)
Viktor Stepanov
as Yakov Nevidimov
Viktor Smirnov
as Iosif
Tatyana Mikhalevkina
Nozomibun Yoneyama
as Isokichi
Marina Vlady
as Yekaterina II - empress
Oleg Yankovskiy
as Kirill Gustavovich Laksman - academician
Anatoliy Skoryakin
Takuzō Kawatani
as Koichi
Yuji Ueda
Pavel Kornakov
Aleksey Serebryakov
as seafarer
