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.
"There is man and beast at nature's mercy. There is awe and love and reverence. And there is the man called..."
Top Billed Cast
Yuriy Solomin
Arsenev
Maksim Munzuk
Dersu Uzala
Mikhail Bychkov
Otryad Arseneva
B. Khorulev
Vladimir Kremena
Turtwigin
Aleksandr Pyatkov
Olenin
Svetlana Danilchenko
Anna
Dmitri Korshikov
Wowa son of Arsenjev
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2024-12-20
At the start of the twentieth century, a group of soldiers are sent to explore the wilderness of their Eastern Siberian province. Led by "Capt. Arseniev" (Yuriy Solomin) they venture deep into the unforgiving territory where they are fortunate to encounter the local Goldi hunter "Dersu" (Maksim Munzuk). They are able to communicate rudimentarily and pretty swiftly they realise that without their wily and respectful guide they would perish amidst the wintry conditions. Indeed, after the tour has finished they all owe this diminutive man an undying debt of gratitude. Many years later, "Arseniev"...
D deepkinoVerified TMDB Critic
2025-09-11
Akira Kurosawa's film, based on the memoirs of the Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev. In 1976, it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, earning Akira Kurosawa the distinction of being the only director to have won this award twice at the time. It teaches lessons about friendship, love of nature, and humanism. It is a very impressive film, both in its dialogues and its cinematography; each frame is like a painting or a magnificent nature photograph....
