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Dersu Uzala (1975)

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Reviews Counted:12

Fresh:9

Rotten:3

Average Rating:7.5/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of novelist Vladimir Arsenyev's novel about survival, set against the stark wilderness of Siberia. When Mongol guide, Dersu, is hired by a Russian crew... Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of novelist Vladimir Arsenyev's novel about survival, set against the stark wilderness of Siberia. When Mongol guide, Dersu, is hired by a Russian crew of mapping surveyors, they soon realize their original negative opinion of him as an inexperienced, naive eccentric, is woefully inaccurate, when they must rely on his bravery and courage to get them out of difficulty. [More]

Starring: Yuri Solomin, Maxim Munzuk

Starring: Yuri Solomin, Maxim Munzuk

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Akira Kurosawa

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03/22/01
Dan Jardine
Dan Jardine
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08/15/03
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

To Arseniev, Dersu embodies something civilized men have lost… Neither can really understand the other — which is precisely what makes their friendship so special.

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05/31/04
Steven D. Greydanus
Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films Guide

a gorgeous looking and highly affecting adventure

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07/21/06
Douglas Pratt
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06/14/05
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03/18/06
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

Beautifully photographed but far too isolated in its characterizations.

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11/26/02
Chuck Rudolph
Chuck Rudolph
Matinee Magazine

The episodes in this second part go on endlessly, loosely, obviously. They lack the revelations of the winter scenes and they do little but belabor at length the points already made. They wreck the film's balance and make its achievements dull.

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05/09/05
Richard Eder
Richard Eder
New York Times

Kurosawa's Russian epic is breathtakinging ambitious, if a bit didactic.

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07/28/03
Dan Lybarger
Dan Lybarger
Nitrate Online

It's sweetly told and heartwarming, much like a Disney film, but not demanding much of the viewer.

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07/19/06
Dennis Schwartz
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03/26/09
Variety

Every frame of Dersu Uzala is simply beautiful to look at. . . . Kurosawa's 140-minute masterpiece is a . . . quietly captivating experience.

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12/01/03
Brian Gibson
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08/30/03
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