Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.
Ken Ogata
Toshiyuki Nishida
Takuzō Kawatani
Noboru Mitani
Hiroyuki Okita
Nozomibun Yoneyama
Tohru Emori
Marina Vlady
Oleg Yankovskiy
Evgeniy Evstigneev
Elena Arzhanik
Yuriy Solomin
Vitali Solomin
Viktor Stepanov
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Tatyana Bedova
Anatoliy Skoryakin
Vladimir Eryomin
Sergei Stepanchenko
Viktor Smirnov
Aleksandr Blok
Sergei Parshin
Boris Klyuev
Yuji Ueda
Mikhail Godin
Pavel Kornakov
Leonard Varfolomeev
Tatyana Mikhalevkina
Aleksey Serebryakov
Elena Borzunova
Igor Taradaikin