

Dersu Uzala
There is man and beast at nature's mercy. There is awe and love and reverence. And there is the man called...
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $4M
- Box office
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- Language
- Russian
- hermit
- friendship
- tiger
- map
- getting lost
- fur trapping
- exploration
- russian soldier
- nature
- siberia
- 1910s
- grand
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Produced in
Japan, Soviet Union
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Theatrical(Mumbai Film Festival)15 Oct 2014
United StatesUS
- Premiere(New York Film Festival)5 Oct 1976
- TheatricalG20 Dec 1977
CanadaCA
- Premiere(New York Film Festival)20 Oct 1976
ArgentinaAR
- TheatricalAtp1 Jul 1976
- Theatrical(re-release)10 Mar 1977
- Premiere(Mar del Plata Film Festival)13 Nov 1998
- Theatrical(Clásicos del Cine Japones)26 Nov 2000
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical(Gent)20 Jan 1977
BrazilBR
- PhysicalLContraCapa DVD1 Jan 2000
CzechiaCZ
- Physical(DVD premiere)18 Nov 2008
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical15 Mar 1976
FinlandFI
- TheatricalS19 Mar 1976
FranceFR
- Theatrical22 Dec 1976
- PhysicalTPPotemkine Films DVD4 Jan 2022
GermanyDE
- Theatrical6East Germany29 Oct 1976
- Theatrical6West Germany12 Nov 1976
GreeceGR
- Premiere(Thessaloniki International Film Festival)20 Nov 1998
- Theatrical(re-release)3 Sept 2015
Frequently asked questions
Dersu Uzala was released on 2 August 1975.
Audience reviews
2- C7/10
CinemaSerf
12/20/2024
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 g…
- D6/10
deepkino
9/11/2025
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 pai…
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