# Dersu Uzala (1975)

Dersu Uzala is a 1975 epic biographical adventure drama film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa. Shot in Russian, it is his only non-Japanese-language film and only 70mm film. An international co-production between Japan and the Soviet Union, shot at the peak of the East-West detente, the film is based on the 1923 memoir Dersu Uzala by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, about his exploration of the Sikhote-Alin region of the Russian Far East over the course of multiple expeditions in the early 20th century. The film is about the friendship between a Russian explorer, Captain Arsenyev, and a nomadic Goldi hunter named Dersu Uzala in the Siberian wilderness. The story follows their adventures as Dersu guides Arsenyev's expedition, showcasing his survival skills and deep connection to nature, ultimately highlighting themes of friendship, respect, and the clash between civilization and the natural world.

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1975
- By: Akira Kurosawa
- Genres: Drama, Adventure
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/dersu.-uzala.-1975)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Made from: Dersu Uzala, Vladimir Arsenyev's book of 1921: free in the United States, as it was first published in 1921, and its US term of 95 years has ended (17 U.S.C. §304(b), §305).
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: what its record states (its uploader's public-domain mark, or a licence not shown to be its rights holder's) leaves its US term to decide, and it is dated 1975; under US law a work of that year is free only on facts the site does not hold for it (its US renewal records, or its own country's term on 1 January 1996 for a work published abroad), and otherwise its US term runs to the end of 2070. Unclear is not offered.