Dersu Uzala
“There is man and beast at nature's mercy. There is awe and love and reverence. And there is the man called...”
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
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Cast
15 people
Yuriy Solomin
Arsenev
Known for
Ordinary Miracle
The Red Tent
Maksim Munzuk
Dersu Uzala
Known for
Siberiade
Mikhail Bychkov
Otryad Arseneva
Known for
The Twelve Chairs
B. Khorulev
Vladimir Kremena
Turtwigin
Also in
Mars
The Story of the Voyages
Aleksandr Pyatkov
Olenin
Known for
The Twelve Chairs
Mute Witness
Svetlana Danilchenko
Anna
Also in
Hot Soul
We Love You
Dmitri Korshikov
Wowa son of Arsenjev
No other roles listed
Suimenkul Chokmorov
Jan Bao
Also in
Dzhamilia
The Seventh Bullet
Daniil Netrebin
Politseyskiy
Known for
The Cranes Are Flying
The Forty-First
Serafim Zaytsev
Also in
Stone Flower
Арифметика любви
Nikolai Volkov
Mogilshchik
Known for
They Fought for Their Motherland
Akira Kurosawa Director · Yuriy Nagibin Screenplay Vladimir Arsenyev Author
Budget $4M · United States release December 20, 1977 · Produced in Japan, Russia, Russia
Box office
Budget
$4,000,000
Production
Daiei Film
Production
Mosfilm
Production · Studio
Atelier 41
Production
Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd.
Production
Japan · Russia · Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Дерсу Узала
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · July 1, 1975
Premiere · USSR (Moscow Film Festival)
Russia · January 5, 1976
Theatrical · Soviet Union
United States · December 20, 1977
Theatrical
United States
October 5, 1976 · Premiere · (New York Film Festival)
Argentina
July 1, 1976 · Theatrical
March 10, 1977 · Theatrical · (re-release)
November 13, 1998 · Premiere · (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
November 26, 2000 · Theatrical · (Clásicos del Cine Japones)
Belgium
January 20, 1977 · Theatrical · (Gent)
Brazil
January 1, 2000 · Physical · ContraCapa DVD
Canada
October 20, 1976 · Premiere · (New York Film Festival)
Czechia
November 18, 2008 · Physical · DVD
Denmark
March 15, 1976 · Theatrical
Finland
March 19, 1976 · Theatrical
France
December 22, 1976 · Theatrical
January 4, 2022 · Physical · Potemkine Films DVD
Germany
October 29, 1976 · Theatrical · East Germany
November 12, 1976 · Theatrical · West Germany
Greece
November 20, 1998 · Premiere · (Thessaloniki International Film Festival)
September 3, 2015 · Theatrical · (re-release)
Hungary
September 16, 1976 · Theatrical
India
October 15, 2014 · Theatrical · (Mumbai Film Festival)
Italy
January 20, 1977 · Theatrical
Japan
August 2, 1975 · Theatrical
July 15, 2006 · Premiere · (Russian and Soviet Film Festival)
October 25, 2008 · Premiere · (Tokyo International Film Festival)
Netherlands
February 1, 2007 · Theatrical
Philippines
April 28, 2007 · Limited theatrical · University of the Philippines Film Institute
Portugal
August 4, 2016 · Theatrical · (re-release)
Spain
October 28, 1976 · Theatrical
July 10, 2020 · Theatrical
Sweden
October 25, 1976 · Theatrical
Switzerland
September 11, 1998 · Theatrical · (Zürich) (re-release)
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