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Summary: Technically miserable
Review: Let's make it clear from start : the movie is a pure masterpiece and will top rank in anyone vidéo collection. The point here is the DVD transfer which is a catastrophy. I am not a techno nut & am very tollerant when there is some quality problems here & there. But this DVD has to be a case on what can go wrong : the sound is scratchy at best, the colors are mostly saturated or are totally faded, the picture goes constantly out of focus, ... Things where so bad I checked my hardware with another DVD ! For the price this is a rip-off.
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Summary: friendship
Review: Nature is grand in Dersu Uzala, but the monumental achievement of this Kurosawa classic is his deeply-moving portrait of a friendship. Two men, so different, each independent and self-sufficient, but forming through their shared adventures and love of the earth a bond of trust and affection that radiants the very splendour of being a human being. Changed circumstances hurry us towards mortality, but nothing can deny the transcendent truth of such a friendship.
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Summary: Visually stunning and great acting.
Review: No question Kurosawa was a master director and here he proves it as he masters perhaps his toughest task to date, the wilds of Siberia. Taken from a Russian novel that Kurosawa had wanted to film for quite a while, Dersu Uzala is many things at once. It's the story of man against nature and man against himself while at the same time man fusing with nature and with oneself and the comparisons that can be made inbetween. The character of Dersu is perhaps as unique as any that has ever been included in cinema. He is completely unique from any of his Hollywood 'mountain man' cohorts. The photography in Dersu Uzala is breathtaking. From all the color of autumn to the desolation and bleakness of winter, the cinematography is top notch. The ending of this film will stay with you for a long time afterwards. A very moving film.
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Summary: Visually stunning and great acting.
Review: No question Kurosawa was a master director and here he proves it as he masters perhaps his toughest task to date, the wilds of Siberia. Taken from a Russian novel that Kurosawa had wanted to film for quite a while, Dersu Uzala is many things at once. It's the story of man against nature and man against himself while at the same time man fusing with nature and with oneself and the comparisons that can be made inbetween. The character of Dersu is perhaps as unique as any that has ever been included in cinema. He is completely unique from any of his Hollywood 'mountain man' cohorts. The photography in Dersu Uzala is breathtaking. From all the color of autumn to the desolation and bleakness of winter, the cinematography is top notch. The ending of this film will stay with you for a long time afterwards. A very moving film.
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Summary: The Greatest Movie I've Ever Seen
Review: Take the savage beauty of Siberia, a story of deep friendship and respect between two men of completely diverse backgrounds, add the pure genius of Kurasawa's direction, two incredible actors, and you come up Dersu Uzala. A visual masterpiece, a touching, sometimes warm and humorous story of camaraderie coupled with tragedy on the individual, small, human scale, this film is the closest to perfection I've ever seen. There are so many scenes that stun you with their beauty and excitement and humanity that it's very hard to pick out a favorite. It is a seamless whole. But the "Capitan's" final whisper of, "Dersu," is the most compelling, emotional final scene I've ever seen. Even more so than, "Rosebud." Thank you, Akira, for so many treasures. We will miss you so very much.
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Summary: Something isn't right here..
Review: The movie is a classic..one of Kurosawa's best films. Even better than some of his older works but something definately stinks here. How is this DvD actually worth [money]? I mean, make no mistake; this is a Kurosawa, but the quality sometimes looks worst than a bootlegged VHS. Kurosawa's older movies like Hidden Fortress and Seven Samurai look much better than this and those movies are 44 and 48 years old respectively, COST LESS and are black and white. Sadly this isn't the first Kurosawa movie I've seen been massacred by a poor DvD transfer. Remember Ran? That DvD was a utter disgrace. So was Madadayo and Sanjuro. I'm so sick of these companies seeking a quick profit so they take works of art and destroy them with half assed ports and then charge over inflated prices on top of all that. It makes me sick. And then there are movies like Kagemusha, Ikiru and Throne of Blood (some of the greatest movies ever made) that have yet to be released on DvD and that I find completely unacceptable. I'm sorry this is beginning sound like a rant but no way is this half assed transfer worth that much money. The movie gets 10 stars but the DvD gets NONE.
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Summary: The Alpha and the Omega of the life!
Review: This film is a real poem .academy Award Film winner for Best Foreign Film .
Kurosawa is great in the intimate details as well as the immensity of the infinity.
An old man and a young Soviet explorer .. A no time ode to the friendship.
A mythical film which deals with the unity of the man with the nature and a powerful testament to the real majesty of the life in which Karl Jaspers in his book Paidea named Aristos - the noble man according the Greek meaning.
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Summary: Kurosawa but no Samurai! An amazing and true story
Review: This film shows another side of Kurosawa; the same sweeping, amazing cinematography, the same respect for history but this time a story not involving the Japanese or Samurai tradition. This is the story of a Russian surveyor who is helped in his arduous mapping of an area of Siberia by a Goldi tribesman. Yuri, the captain of the surveying team and Derzu, the native guide have almost a wordless exchange of information yet establish a rapport stronger than brothers. The end of the story is sweetly tragic, and some of the scenes just will blow you away (like a blizzard on the open prairie and how they survive it.) This is a beautiful film and one that can be watched again and again.
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Summary: Tranquilizing with a certain zen quality.
Review: This, being the first Akira Kurosawa movie I have ever seen, was not at all what I expected from a samurai movie director. The cinematogrophy was surreal, especially in letterbox. And the acting did not seem like acting at all, it was all so subtle and real. Any definite plot structure or objective would certainly have taken away this movies beautiful simplicity.
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Summary: remarkable
Review: Thoughtful film from Akira Kurosawa about a Russian military man mapping the forests and frozen wastes of Russia in the early 1900's.Along the way he finds an elderly man(Dersu Uzala)whom he enlists as his guide.This is a stunningly photographed and incredibly moving film that can teach us a lot about being more appreciative of the planet we inhabit.
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