The Dream of Russia

2h 3m

6.2

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.

Cast

Koudayu Daikokuya - captain

Toshiyuki Nishida

Atsuzou - navigator

Takuzō Kawatani

Nozomibun Yoneyama

Sadanobu Matsudaira

Yekaterina II - empress

Oleg Yankovskiy

Kirill Gustavovich Laksman - academician

Evgeniy Evstigneev

Bush - gardener

Sofya Ivanovna Bush

Bezborodko - count

Shelekhov - Irkutsk nobleman

Viktor Stepanov

Yakov Nevidimov

Anastasiya Nemolyaeva

Anatoliy Skoryakin

Vladimir Eryomin

Vorontsov - count

Sergei Stepanchenko

Boris - Nevidimov's servant

Russian naval officer

Russian naval officer

Leonard Varfolomeev

Tatyana Mikhalevkina

Aleksey Serebryakov

Elena Borzunova

reads voiceover (voice)

Igor Taradaikin

reads voiceover (voice)

Crew

Director, Screenplay

Mutsuo Naganuma

Director of Photography

Tsutomu Sakurai

Yasuyoshi Tokuma

Tsutomu Tsuchikawa

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Valeri Yurkevich

Production Design

Yekaterina Shapkayts

Marina Kaishauri

Original Music Composer