Dersu Uzala is a 1961 Soviet

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 film, adapted from the books

Dersu Uzala

Dersu Uzala is the title of a 1923 book by the Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev.-Plot:Arsenyev's book tells of his travels in the Ussuri basin in the Russian Far East. Dersu was the name of a Nanai hunter who acted as a guide for Arsenyev's surveying crew from 1902 to 1907, and saved them from...

 of Vladimir Arsenyev

Vladimir Arsenyev

Vladimir Klavdiyevich Arsenyev was a Russian explorer of the Far East who recounted his travels in a series of books - "По Уссурийскому Краю" and "Дерсу Узала" - telling of his military journeys to the Ussuri basin with Dersu Uzala, a native hunter, from 1902 to 1907...

, about his travels in Russian Far East

Russian Far East

Russian Far East is a term that refers to the Russian part of the Far East, i.e., extreme east parts of Russia, between Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia and the Pacific Ocean...

 with a native trapper, Dersu Uzala.

The film was produced by Mosnauchfilm (Моснаучфильм), directed by Agasi Babayan (Агаси Бабаян) with screenwriter Igor Bolgarin (Игорь Болгарин) and featuring Adolf Shestakov (Адольф Шестаков) and Kasym Zhakibayev (Касым Жакибаев).

The film won the Golden Wolf at the 1961 Bucharest Film Festival

Bucharest Film Festival

The Bucharest Film Festival is a defunct film festival active between 1948 and 1968 in the city of Bucharest founded by Nicolae Barbu. Originally known as the Bucharest Festival of Socialist Film due to its part funding by the Communist Party, the festival specialized in films of the Eastern Bloc...