The Dream of Russia
1992Sumptuous 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.
Acted in
Ken Ogata
as Koudayu Daikokuya - captain
Toshiyuki Nishida
as Atsuzou - navigator
Takuzō Kawatani
as Koichi
Noboru Mitani
as Kudzaemon
Hiroyuki Okita
as Shinzou
Nozomibun Yoneyama
as Isokichi
Tohru Emori
as Sadanobu Matsudaira
Marina Vlady
as Yekaterina II - empress
Oleg Yankovskiy
as Kirill Gustavovich Laksman - academician
Evgeniy Evstigneev
as Bush - gardener
Elena Arzhanik
as Sofya Ivanovna Bush
Yuriy Solomin
as Bezborodko - count
Vitali Solomin
as Shelekhov - Irkutsk nobleman
Viktor Stepanov
as Yakov Nevidimov
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
as Tatyana
Tatyana Bedova
Anatoliy Skoryakin
Vladimir Eryomin
as Vorontsov - count
Sergei Stepanchenko
as Boris - Nevidimov's servant
Viktor Smirnov
as Iosif
Aleksandr Blok
Sergei Parshin
as Russian naval officer
Boris Klyuev
as Russian naval officer
Yuji Ueda
Mikhail Godin
as city dweller
Pavel Kornakov
Leonard Varfolomeev
Tatyana Mikhalevkina
Aleksey Serebryakov
as seafarer
Elena Borzunova
as reads voiceover (voice)
Igor Taradaikin
as reads voiceover (voice)
