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Original title: Dersu Uzala
Year: 1975
Running time: 141 min.
Country: Soviet Union (USSR)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Screenwriter: Akira Kurosawa, Yuri Nagibin. Book: Vladimir Arsenev
Music: Isaac Schwartz
Cinematography: Asakazu Nakai, Youri Gantoman, Fyodor Dobronravov
Cast: Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko, Vladimir Kremena, Dmitriy Korshikov, Suymenkul Chokmorov
Producer: Co-production Soviet Union (USSR)-Japan;
Mosfilm, Atelier 41
Genre: Adventure. Drama | 1900s. Friendship. Based On A True Story. Hunting
Synopsis: It is the story of an elderly guide and Goldi hunter (Maxim Munzuk), who, at the turn of the century, agrees to shepherd a Russian explorer (Yuri Solomin) and a troop of soldiers through the most treacherous passages of the Far East. Two men whose contrasting lives are bound by common thread of survival learn friendship and respect in Siberian wasteland.

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#1 Best Russian Movies of all time
#3 Best Adventure Movies
#5 Best Movies Based on a True Story
#28 Best Drama Movies
#37 Best Movies in the history of film

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Awards: 1975: Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture

1975: Top Prize in el festival internacional of Moscú

1976: David di Donatello Awards: Best Foreign Director and Special David

Critics' reviews

"The first half is delicate and haunting and the second half is numb and ponderous (...) [It] seems to be not so much co-produced as partitioned. Unequally."

The New York Times
"Ponderous and plodding (...) This is not the witty, vigorous Kurosawa (...) The moralist remains and compostions reflect some of the grandeur of Kurosawa at his best"

Gary Arnold: The Washington Post
"A heartwarming film"

Variety
"'Dersu Uzala' made even a diehard box-dweller like me thrill to the primal pleasures and perils of this beautiful but unforgiving landscape."

Elise Nakhnikian: Slant
"The point of view—naive, awestruck—is presented well, although the wilderness footage isn't all it could be."

Dave Kehr: Chicago Reader
"It's an elegiac film of great visual and spiritual beauty (...) [A] humanist masterwork"

Philip French: The Guardian
"A stunningly beautiful look at the relationship between man and nature (...) despite the slow pace this is worth a look.(…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

David Parkinson: Empire
"[Kurosawa] succumbed almost completely to the Mosfilm line in crude spectacle and simplistic, lumbering drama"

Tony Rayns: Time Out

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