20,000 Leagues Across the Land

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.