Dersu Uzala (1975)
Country: USSR/JAP
Technical: Sovcolor/Panavision 140m
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Maxim Munzuk, Juri Solomine
Synopsis:
A Russian soldier-surveyor is guided through the forests of the Pacific seaboard by a Mongolian hunter and admires his benevolent approach to survival, conservation and the common weal.
Review:
This untypical work, made after an intensely difficult period for the director, is both a meditation on the difficulty of adapting to the world with age, and a visually splendid poem to man's insignificance. The colour is rather muted and anaemic, in the manner of much Soviet processing, but Kurosawa and his crew achieve some miraculous sequences involving, for example, a river in spate, a wind storm on a frozen lake, and a tiger. The film has, like Ikiru, a melancholy undertow born of the main character's stoical approach to outdoor living and our own consciousness that he, not to mention his way of thinking, is on the way out.
Country: USSR/JAP
Technical: Sovcolor/Panavision 140m
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Maxim Munzuk, Juri Solomine
Synopsis:
A Russian soldier-surveyor is guided through the forests of the Pacific seaboard by a Mongolian hunter and admires his benevolent approach to survival, conservation and the common weal.
Review:
This untypical work, made after an intensely difficult period for the director, is both a meditation on the difficulty of adapting to the world with age, and a visually splendid poem to man's insignificance. The colour is rather muted and anaemic, in the manner of much Soviet processing, but Kurosawa and his crew achieve some miraculous sequences involving, for example, a river in spate, a wind storm on a frozen lake, and a tiger. The film has, like Ikiru, a melancholy undertow born of the main character's stoical approach to outdoor living and our own consciousness that he, not to mention his way of thinking, is on the way out.
Country: USSR/JAP
Technical: Sovcolor/Panavision 140m
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Maxim Munzuk, Juri Solomine
Synopsis:
A Russian soldier-surveyor is guided through the forests of the Pacific seaboard by a Mongolian hunter and admires his benevolent approach to survival, conservation and the common weal.
Review:
This untypical work, made after an intensely difficult period for the director, is both a meditation on the difficulty of adapting to the world with age, and a visually splendid poem to man's insignificance. The colour is rather muted and anaemic, in the manner of much Soviet processing, but Kurosawa and his crew achieve some miraculous sequences involving, for example, a river in spate, a wind storm on a frozen lake, and a tiger. The film has, like Ikiru, a melancholy undertow born of the main character's stoical approach to outdoor living and our own consciousness that he, not to mention his way of thinking, is on the way out.