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Dostoyevsky's Idiot is most definitely not an easy work, and trying to compress it into a single film is bound to create problems, hence the 2003 Russian mini-series should make sense, especially given the director Bortko's previous work.This is a serious work, and when so many viewers call it masterpiece, they hardly exaggerate - the film is great cinema event by any standard.
The performances are almost all suporb, and the atmosphere true and thick.
There are people here who love clossics, and believe me, for them this movie will be a treat. Things like that one don't come along all that often.
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I copied my friends disks. Sorry, I am cheap...
This 1951 film directed by Akira Kurosawa stars Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori and Toshiro Mifune. An early paean to Kurosawa's favorite writer, Fyodor Dostoevesky, the film is an expressionist tour-de-force, resetting in postwar Japan the Russian tale of the "holy fool," a prince whose simple goodness sparks envy in a friend who rivals him for a woman's love.
I have it in my queue as #50... if I ever get to it... :-(
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Their selection is expanding in all the directions.But what is 411?
Information also known as Directory Assistance. Sometimes people use 411 in place of the word 'information' just to be artful or hip or whatever. I was saying thanks for the information about the Movie.I wouldn't have known without it.
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compared to C & P and The Karamazov Bros.
You say the movie is... interesting, throughout?
mention what all critics have noted is a key problem with it: the omission of Raskalnikov's gulag redemption, laid off as capitulation to the Soviet censors.
I must admit, ignorant as I am of this version, that this failure is like cutting Christ's crucifixion words, "Lord, why has thou forsaken me."
I'll see it, anyhow, but that seems to be a very damning decision.
I suspect you are way ahead of me on this one. I saw the film when it came out in 1969, and I most likely was not aware of this element. My memory locked in many other things, most importantly the Smoktunovsky's performance (in my mind absolutely superb... and you have to absorb his voice and speech manner) and to a somewhat lesser extent Taratorkin's. Plus the whole atmosphere that was I thought presented extremely well, especially as it was filmed on the familiar locations.If you could point me in the direction of one such review I would be curious.
...at the time The Idiot was my favorite, although I loved them all.
You probably know that all three had wonderful films made on them - I don't know how easy those are to find with English subtitles, but all would be very worth the time - plus the old Idiot by Pyriev, who also did the Karamazov's.
I mean in terms of video and the sound, as the film is great and the two lead actors wonderful.
...I don't as a rule look out for movies made from books I love. If I really love a book I am likely to opt not to see a movie version unless I hear something about it that's particularly intriguing.
VERY few spots that are not quite at the same level, but overall riveting.It works better, of course, if you know the actors, because many of them have long resume', but even without it I think you will be absorbed.
I will check the version I have - I bought it in Russia... and if it has the subs you are welcome to borrow it.
I have The Master & Margarita--- embarrassingly for several months--- and can't seem to muster the energy.
Anyhow, yes, if it has subtitles. As I mentioned before, my wife has a passable command of Russian (though her spoken skills are very, very rusty) but a running translation is out of the question...
The one I have has subtitles, so if or when interested - just let me know!
If you have some memory of the book I think you will do alright, as the film is very true to it. I will check the subtitles, maybe tonight.
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