# Dersu Uzala (1975)

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**Original title**: *Дерсу Узала*
**Runtime**: 141 min
**Genres**: Adventure, Drama
**Directed by**: Akira Kurosawa
**Written by**: Akira Kurosawa, Yuriy Nagibin
**Starring**: Yuriy Solomin, Maksim Munzuk, Mikhail Bychkov, B. Khorulev, Vladimir Kremena, Aleksandr Pyatkov

> *There is man and beast at nature's mercy. There is awe and love and reverence. And there is the man called...*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A cartographer bonds with a Siberian hunter whose survival instincts make city life a slow death. One man teaches the other how to read winter. Kurosawa’s last great wilderness elegy carries itself on two quiet shoulders.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, slow-burn, tender

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