Wild West adventures in this action movie based on famous "The Pathfinder" novel by James Fenimore Cooper.
Production
Lithuanian forests standing in for New York wilderness.
Costume
Leather fringe that screams 'Moscow department store, 1986.'
Director
Pavel Lyubimov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cooper was bizarrely beloved in the USSR; this was one of several Soviet adaptations of frontier fiction.
Andrey Mironov, playing the comic sidekick, was a Soviet comedy legend—casting him here was like putting John Candy in a Hemingway adaptation.
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