20,000 Leagues Across the Land ( or "Léon Garros Is Looking for His Friend", ) is a 1961 Soviet-French feature film by Marcello Pagliero.

Plot

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.