Dersu Uzala

Dersu Uzala

1975 · 141 min · RU · G · 8.0 (459 votes)
Dir. Akira Kurosawa · Starring Yuriy Solomin, Maksim Munzuk, Mikhail Bychkov, B. Khorulev, Vladimir Kremena, Aleksandr Pyatkov · Music Isaac Schwarts

There is man and beast at nature's mercy. There is awe and love and reverence. And there is the man called...

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A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

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A profound, almost spiritual journey through the vast Siberian wilderness. It's a quiet, contemplative film about an unlikely friendship, the humbling power of nature, and the deep connection between two vastly different men.

contemplativewistfulawe-inspiringserenemelancholicslow-burnepic cinematographynaturalisticperiod dramahumanistnature vs. civilizationfriendshipman's place in the worldrespect for the wild
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