20,000 Leagues Across the Land

20,000 Leagues Across the Land (Vingt mille lieues sur la terre or "Léon Garros Is Looking for His Friend", Леон Гаррос ищет друга) is a 1961 Soviet-French feature film by Marcello Pagliero.

Plot
During the Second World War Leon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from a Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years as a journalist Leon with buddies visits the Soviet Union to make a report and accidentally finds Boris. But Boris is not in Moscow, and for the sake of meeting a friend Leon has to take a car halfway across the country... Traveling with the foreigners is translator Nikolai, who in turn is looking for Natasha, his brother's runaway bride.

Actors

 * Léon Zitrone as Léon Garros, journalist
 * Yuri Belov as Nikolay Savin, translator
 * Tatiana Samoilova as Natasha, singer
 * Jean Rochefort as Fernand
 * Jean Gaven as Gregoire
 * Valentin Zubkov as Alexey Savin, polar aviator and Natasha's groom
 * Evgeny Burenkov as Boris Vaganov
 * Lyudmila Marchenko as elevator woman in the hotel "Ukraine"
 * Antonina Maksimova as chairman of the kolkhoz
 * Vladimir Ivashov as Fyodor, a young worker in Bratsk
 * Valentina Kutsenko as Olga
 * Nina Nikitina as mother of Fyodor
 * Margarita Zharova as maid
 * Alexei Vanin as theatrically
 * Tamara Yarenko as Claudia, hotel receptionist
 * Zinovy Gerdt as voiceover