Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 141 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Japan, Russia
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Russian — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- hermit
- friendship
- tiger
- map
- getting lost
- fur trapping
- exploration
- russian soldier
- nature
- siberia
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Vladimir Kremena — Turtwigin
- Aleksandr Pyatkov — Olenin
- Svetlana Danilchenko — Anna
- Dmitri Korshikov — Wowa son of Arsenjev
- Suimenkul Chokmorov — Jan Bao
- Daniil Netrebin — Politseyskiy
- Serafim Zaytsev
- Nikolay Volkov — Mogilshchik
- Vladimir Prikhodko — Russian soldier
- Sovetbek Dzhumadylov — (uncredited)
- Igor Sykhra
- Directed
- Akira Kurosawa
- Written
- Yuriy Nagibin, Akira Kurosawa
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 651 ratings
- Studio
- Daiei Film, Mosfilm
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
