Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend

Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend

94 mins | Drama, Comedy | Jan. 13, 1961

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.

Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend

94 mins | Drama, Comedy | Jan. 13, 1961

Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
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.
Producers Procinex, Gorky Film Studios
Original title Леон Гаррос ищет друга
Directors Marcello Pagliero
Writers Semyon Klebanov, Sergei Mikhalkov, Leonid Zorin, Michel Cournot

Cast

Tatyana Samoylova

as Natasha

Yuri Belov

as Nikolai

Léon Zitrone

as Léon Garros

Jean Rochefort

as Fernand

Jean Gaven

as Grégoire

Evgeni Burenkov

as Boris Vaganov

Valentin Zubkov

as Andrei

Vladimir Ivashov

as Fedya

Olga Stanitsyna

as Vera

Zinoviy Gerdt

as сommentator

Nina Nikitina

as Fedya's mother

Nina Golovina

as Dasha

Tamara Altseva

as Natasha's mother

Antonina Maksimova

as Antonina Petrovna Stepanova

Irina Radchenko

as hotel administrator (uncredited)

Aleksey Vanin

as theatergoer (uncredited)

Margarita Zharova

as maid (uncredited)

Lyudmila Egorova

as Svetlana (uncredited)

Tamara Yarenko

as Klava (uncredited)