Dersu Uzala

Director Akira Kurosawa’s opening of his first completed feature in more than four years, financed by Soviet Russia’s MosFilm, from his own script with Yuri Nagibin, from the memoir of Russian explorer Vladimir Arseniev, played by Yuriy Solomin, Dersu Uzala. 1975.

Native Dersu (Maksim Munzuk, title character) winning over Russian military cartographer Arseneyev (Yuriy Solomin) and his crew, with wisdom and sharpshooting, director Akira Kurosawa working on location in Sibera, in the Soviet-financed Dersu Uzala. 1975.

Part of a long sequence from Akira Kurosawa's Best Foreign Language Film Oscar® winner, Dersu (Maksim Munzuk) and Arsenyev (Yuri Solomin) rush to prepare for a cold Siberian night, in Dersu Uzala (1975).

The title character (Maksim Munzuk), a Goldi hunter, has just joined a Russian expeditionary party in Siberia, led by Captain Arsenyev (Yuri Solomin), in Akira Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala, 1975.