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Have you sen "Beg"?

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Posted by Victor Khomenko on November 24, 2000 at 06:19:07

In Reply to: Re: Waterloo posted by Lorke on November 23, 2000 at 23:45:34:

***Otherwise I have read somewhere, that the uncut version is two-part and about four hours long.

That is how I remember it too. In USSR anything longer than perhaps 1 hour 45 minutes would be made in two parts.

It is one of my favorite movies too. But all I was able to find so far locally was a rather mediocre VHS tape that doesn't do justice to the magnificent large-scale cinematography. And those aerial shots of French cavalry being decimated are something to die for - no evil pun intended here, serious.

Some folks didn't like the Napoloon-Steiger in that movie, but I just loved Steiger and thought hir portrait of the Emperor was quite close to my mental image (I do love that period and all things related to Napoleon do touch my nerve).

What we really need is a good wide-screen transfer - that would become the most preeminent battle movie.

BTW, if you love this one, you should also consider his War and Peace - or perhaps you have already seen it? The whole movie is perhaps too slow and not because it is insightful, but simply because that was the pace the director liked. It has enough great actors in it to fill a train and the battle scenes there are excellent too (as far as I recall). It has been severely criticized by some mostly for not too good reasons. Perhaps the weakest point was Bondarchuk playing Peirre - and having his wife there didn't score well with most ctitics either. My wife can never forget him for that role - so distant from her interpretation of Pierre it was grotesque. I personally didn't think it was all that bad, certainly within the reason. Yep, the age showed up, but that usually doesn't bother me all that much. Beautiful scenes of balls, ets. I would not mind seeing this one again either.

And sort of along the same lines - have you seen the "Beg"?

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