| 20,000 Leagues Across the Land | |
| Director: | Marcello Pagliero |
| Starring: | Léon Zitrone Yuri Belov Nikolay Savin Tatiana Samoilova Jean Rochefort Jean Gaven Valentin Zubkov Evgeny Burenkov |
| Music: | Nikita Bogoslovsky |
| Country: | USSR France |
| Language: | Russian |
20,000 Leagues Across the Land (French: Vingt mille lieues sur la terre or "Léon Garros Is Looking for His Friend", Russian: Леон Гаррос ищет друга) is a 1961 Soviet-French feature film by Marcello Pagliero.
During the Second World War Leon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from a Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years as a journalist Leon with buddies visits the Soviet Union to make a report and accidentally finds Boris. But Boris is not in Moscow, and for the sake of meeting a friend Leon has to take a car halfway across the country... Traveling with the foreigners is translator Nikolai, who in turn is looking for Natasha, his brother's runaway bride.