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Dersu Uzala

1975

Akira Kurosawa

Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko, Vladimir Kremena ...

8.3

33,951

Adventure. Drama 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.

	Author	Review
United States	The New York Times	"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."	NEU
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"It's an elegiac film of great visual and spiritual beauty (...) [A] humanist masterwork"	POS
United States	Gary Arnold The Washington Post	"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"	NEU
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"A stunningly beautiful look at the relationship between man and nature (...) despite the slow pace this is worth a look.(…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tony Rayns Time Out	"[Kurosawa] succumbed almost completely to the Mosfilm line in crude spectacle and simplistic, lumbering drama"	NEU
United States	Variety	"A heartwarming film"	POS
United States	Elise Nakhnikian Slant	"'Dersu Uzala' made even a diehard box-dweller like me thrill to the primal pleasures and perils of this beautiful but unforgiving landscape."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The point of view—naive, awestruck—is presented well, although the wilderness footage isn't all it could be."	NEU

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