Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend (1961)

9.5/10 • 94 min • Comedy Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Tatyana Samoylova

Natasha

Yuri Belov

Nikolai

Léon Zitrone

Léon Garros

Jean Rochefort

Fernand

Jean Gaven

Grégoire

Evgeni Burenkov

Boris Vaganov

Valentin Zubkov

Andrei

Lyudmila Marchenko

Masha

Vladimir Ivashov

Fedya

Olga Stanitsyna

Vera

Valentina Kutsenko

Olga

Zinoviy Gerdt

сommentator

Nina Nikitina

Fedya's mother

Nina Golovina

Dasha

Antonina Maksimova

Antonina Petrovna Stepanova

Irina Radchenko

hotel administrator (uncredited)

Aleksey Vanin

theatergoer (uncredited)

Margarita Zharova

maid (uncredited)

Lyudmila Egorova

Svetlana (uncredited)

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