Event Details
Captain Arsenyev (Yuri Solomin) leads a group of Russian soldiers in his expedition of the Russian Far East region in the early 1900s, striking up an endearing friendship with a nomad hunter, Dersu Uzala (Maksim Munzuk) in the process. Based on a memoir by Vladimir Klavdiyevich Arsenyev, a renowned Russian explorer whose research spanned regions of the Far East, Kurosawa’s epic drama contemplates the relationships between humanity, nature, and the spiritual realm. The vastness of the Siberian forests, previously unfamiliar to the Japanese master, underscores the immense power of nature and the beauty found in simplicity.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1975 | 142 min. | Soviet Union/Japan | Color | Russian, Chinese with English subtitles | Not Rated | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: Akira Kurosawa
WRITTEN BY: Akira Kurosawa, Yuriy Nagibin
WITH: Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Mikhail Bychkov, Vladimir Khrulyov
New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.