The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends is a 1970 Soviet adventure film directed by.
Plot
The film tells the story of the Danish-born Russian 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.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