20,000 Leagues Across the Land

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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) is a 1961 Soviet-French feature film by Marcello Pagliero.

During the Second World War Leon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from a Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years as a journalist Leon with buddies visits the Soviet Union to make a report and accidentally finds Boris. But 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.

• 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

• Кадры из фильма
• Leon Garros ishchet druga at IMDb