The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
1970 film
- Iosif Osipov
- Viktor Shklovskiy
- Yuri Shvyryov
- Kārlis Sebris
- Igor Ledogorov
- Yuri Nazarov
- Valentin Nikulin
- Gennadi Frolov
- Leonid Kuravlyov
Release date
- 1970 (1970)
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends (Russian: Баллада о Беринге и его друзьях) is a 1970 Soviet adventure film directed by Yuri Shvyryov [ru].[1][2][3]
Plot
The film tells the story of Danish explorer Vitus Bering, who, by decree of Peter the Great in 1725, led the First Kamchatka expedition and made new discoveries, expanding the borders of the Russian Empire.[4]
Cast
- Kārlis Sebris as Vitus Bering
- Igor Ledogorov as Dmitry Ovtsyn
- Yuri Nazarov as Aleksei Chirikov
- Valentin Nikulin as Georg Steller
- Gennadi Frolov as Starodubtsev
- Leonid Kuravlyov
- Vija Artmane as Anna Bering
- Roman Tkachuk as Tsar Peter I
- Dzidra Ritenberga as Empress Catherine I
- Nonna Mordyukova as Empress Anna Ioannovna[5]
References
External links
- The Ballad of Bering and His Friends at IMDb