Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend (1961)
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.
Director: Marcello Pagliero
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Tatyana Samoylova as Natasha |
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Yuri Belov as Nikolai |
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Léon Zitrone as Léon Garros |
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Jean Rochefort as Fernand |
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Jean Gaven as Grégoire |
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Evgeni Burenkov as Boris Vaganov |
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Valentin Zubkov as Andrei |
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Lyudmila Marchenko as Masha |
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Vladimir Ivashov as Fedya |
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Olga Stanitsyna as Vera |
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Valentina Kutsenko as Olga |
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Zinoviy Gerdt as сommentator |
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Nina Nikitina as Fedya's mother |
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Nina Golovina as Dasha |
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Tamara Altseva as Natasha's mother |
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Antonina Maksimova as Antonina Petrovna Stepanova |
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Irina Radchenko as hotel administrator (uncredited) |
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Aleksey Vanin as theatergoer (uncredited) |
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Margarita Zharova as maid (uncredited) |
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Lyudmila Egorova as Svetlana (uncredited) |
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Tamara Yarenko as Klava (uncredited) |
| Directing | Marcello Pagliero | Director |
| Sound | Grigoriy Gamburg | Conductor |
| Sound | Yuri Zakrzhevskiy | Sound |
| Writing | Michel Cournot | Writer |
| Writing | Semyon Klebanov | Writer |
| Sound | Nikita Bogoslovskiy | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Olga Bednova | Costume Design |
| Editing | Victoria Mercanton | Editor |
| Camera | Vladimir Rapoport | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Grair Garibyan | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Leonid Zorin | Writer |
| Art | Pyotr Pashkevich | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Aleksei Smirnov | Makeup Artist |
| Writing | Sergey Mikhalkov | Writer |
| Art | Noi Senderov | Production Design |
| Editing | Iosif Gordon | Editor |
| Crew | Arseni Klopotovsky | Special Effects |
| Crew | Vera Sholina | Special Effects |
| Directing | Isaak Magiton | First Assistant Director |