Dersu Uzala

by Vladimir Arsenyev · first published 1921

Dersu Uzala (Russian: Дерсу Узала; alternate U.S. titles: With Dersu the Hunter and Dersu the Trapper) is a 1923 memoir by the Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, concerning his travels in the Russian Far East with the Nanai hunter Dersu Uzala. The story was made into a 1975 film Dersu Uzala, directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film became only the second from Russia to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, after War and Peace (1966–1967).

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Genre:

Short

Original language:

Russian

Reader rating:

★ 3.0 / 5 (1 on Open Library)

Year page:

1921