Genre: Historical Adventure
Duration: 144mins
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Yuri Solomin, Maxim Manzuk, Mikhail Bychkov, Vladimir Khrulev, Stanislav Marin

A wonderfully moving portrait from the Japanese master Akira Kurosawa set in the magnificent Russian Far East. This is the story of an elderly guide who at the turn of the 20th century, agrees to shepherd a Russian explorer and a troop of soldiers through the wilderness. Using his local knowledge the guide is able to save his party from perishing. But his life too is on the verge of destruction with the advances of civilisation and old age.