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This first co-production of the Soviet and Indian cinematographers is dedicated to the Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin who in 1466-1472 blazed the trade way from Europe to India. The film is based on Nikitin’s travel notes. Starring in the film are popular Russian actor Oleg Strizhenov and India’s 1950s movie star Nargis.
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- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
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Audiences 68GoodWatch 65
IMDb6.8
Running time
2 h 24 min
Longer than 9 in 10 adventure movies, +41 min on the typical 103
typical 103144Half of all adventure movies run 93–120 min.
Reach
Streams in 4 countries
Released
1957
December 13, 1957
69 years ago
Genres
AdventureHistoryLanguage
Hindi
Original language
Also spoken
GermanRussianMade in
Russia- India
and 11 more16 people
- NargisChampa
- Oleg StrizhenovAfanasiy Nikitin
- PadminiCourt Dancer Lakshmi
- Prithviraj KapoorGrand Vizier Mahmud Gavan
- Manmohan KrishnaChampa's Father
- PJP. JairajAmbassador Hassan Bek Shirvan
- Achala SachdevChampa's Mother
- David Abraham CheulkarAsad Khan
- Balraj SahniSakaram
Iya ArepinaDunyasha
Nikifor KolofidinVasily Panin
Vsevolod YakutMiguel
Ivan ZhevagoTver merchant
Aleksandr Kuznetsovmerchant
Boris TerentyevAthanasius Nikitin's father- LTLeonid TopchiyevIvan III
Directing · 6
- Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Director, Writer
- Vasily Pronin Director
- Aleksandr Zhutaev First Assistant Director
- Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh Assistant Director
- Anwar Mirza First Assistant Director
- B. Garga Assistant Director
Writing · 5
- Mariya Smirnova Writer
- Afanasy Nikitin Novel
- Prem Dhawan Lyricist
- Asad Bhopali Lyricist
- Grigoriy Mariamov Script Editor
Production · 2
- M. Sabir Executive Producer
- G. Kharlamov Executive Producer
Camera · 6
- S. Ramachandra Director of Photography
- Vladimir Nikolayev Director of Photography
- Yevgeni Andrikanis Director of Photography
- Sergey Shemakhov Camera Operator
- German Shatrov Camera Operator
- Amina Akhmetova Camera Operator
Editing · 1
- Vsevolod Massino Editor
Sound · 8
- Boris Chaikovsky Original Music Composer
- Anil Biswas Original Music Composer
- Lata Mangeshkar Playback Singer
- Arnold Roytman Conductor
- Behram Bharucha Sound
- Meena Kapoor Playback Singer
Art · 5
- Gennady Myasnikov Production Design
- Mikhail Bogdanov Production Design
- M.R. Achrekar Production Design
- D. Gopal Set Decoration
- Orest Alikin Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up · 4
- Olga Kruchinina Costume Design
- Hasan Costume Design
- P. Djukar Makeup Artist
- V. Fetisov Makeup Artist
Visual Effects · 3
- Zoya Moryakova VFX Artist
- Fedor Krasniy VFX Artist
- Aleksandr Renkov VFX Director of Photography
Other crew · 1
- B. Rybakov Scientific Consultant
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