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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
NargisChampa
Oleg StrizhenovAfanasiy Nikitin
PadminiCourt Dancer Lakshmi
Prithviraj KapoorGrand Vizier Mahmud Gavan
Manmohan KrishnaChampa's FatherP. Jairaj
P. JairajAmbassador Hassan Bek Shirvan
Achala SachdevChampa's Mother
David Abraham CheulkarAsad Khan
Balraj SahniSakaram
Iya ArepinaDunyasha
Nikifor KolofidinVasily Panin
Vsevolod YakutMiguelExplore the crew
- Director
- Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
- Director
- Vasily Pronin
- Writer
- Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
- Writer
- Mariya Smirnova
- Director of Photography
- S. Ramachandra
- Original Music Composer
- Boris Chaikovsky
- Original Music Composer
- Anil Biswas
- Director of Photography
- Yevgeni Andrikanis
- Director of Photography
- Vladimir Nikolayev
- Editor
- Vsevolod Massino