A wonderful film. It showcases the natural beauty of the Taiga and presents a contrast between the technological and the pastoral. Dersu is one with the forest. He knows its ways and its moods. The Russians scoff at his ways and his 'primitive' belief system, but eventually come to rely on him, and even love him. It is a beautiful story that takes place in an world that very few of us in the West have had a chance to see. I thought the fact that the film was set in the pre-revolutionary period gave it a peculiar sort of charm - Russia before the Great War and the Russian Revolution was innocent and even naive, the same way the Russian soldiers were innocent of the wonders and the dangers of the Taiga. One of the things I loved most about this film was the cinematography - there are long, lingering shots of the landscape, the endless steppe, the forest, the rivers, the mountains. We believe ourselves to be powerful because we have been moderately successful in our attempts to harness nature for our own uses, but the film shows us that we are deluding ourselves, that nature cannot be controlled or resisted, and the truly powerful are those, like Dersu, who co-exist in harmony with nature and learn what the wilderness teaches.
>>216056541Soviet movie made of Dersu before this shows how much AK used nature as untamable force for friendship kino.
State funding for movies dried up in the 80s, but this gave Moscow film fest some shine at the time, or it masked the deeper systematic problems.
it was basically disowned and forgotten because its essentially just soviet propaganda trying to bridge the gap between slavics and chinks
>>216056541it's an akira kurosawa film and it's on youtube in fullone of the best depictions of friendship on film
>>216056541never seen someone other than me talk about this film on /tv/ it's my favorite by kurosawa. maybe tied with high and low.
>>216056814incredibly retarded take
This shot was the inspiration for the twin suns scene on Tatooine. Lucas up his old tricks.
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>>216058154>>216058167the masters have always been copied. even by other masters (not including lucas in that category, just to be clear)
do I have to be a gook or a russki to enjoy this flick?
>>216059681da cyka
>>216059681all you need is a sovl
why would conduct topographic surveys in a Siberian winter?
>>216058154The scene when they have to build an shelter from grass is like the scene on Hoth.
>>216059681no
The bit where Dersu is in the town at the end and he is giving out to the water delivery guy for taking money for water is hilarious.
>>216061989he was very based it was also cute how bad he felt asking them for ammunition since it was probably one of the most precious resources to him
