Gaby said:"Dersu Uzala is a 1961 Soviet film, adapted from the books of Vladimir Arsenyev, about his travels in Russian Far East with a native trapper, Dersu Uzala."
Miss.K said:I think I'll watch them all, though I'm not much into war movies, -I watch documentaries about wars out of duty to witness it, and for knowledge, but generally prefer clever films, or something that makes me cry because it is beautiful and romantic, instead of crying for murdered children and such.
It's not a clever film but if you're interested, I saw a documentary about Russia a few years ago called "Russia: A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby" http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/russia-journey-with-jonathan-dimbleby/Miss.K said:Wow, thank you so much guys :)
I think I'll watch them all, though I'm not much into war movies, -I watch documentaries about wars out of duty to witness it, and for knowledge, but generally prefer clever films, or something that makes me cry because it is beautiful and romantic, instead of crying for murdered children and such.
(Music is also good for getting to know a language, but it don't have subtitles)
Never read Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but have felt terribly un-cultural for not doing so, so thank you for that.
SAO said:I think this is the highest budget Russian film ever made, it's a sci-fi film called "The Inhabited Island".
Here it is with English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci1IYy2UWvA
Inhabited Island 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljT88o2QZI4
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Possibility of Being said:I watched recently a TV series based on [Fyodor Dostoyevsky's] novel "The Idiot" made by Russian Television in 2003 and I loved it. It's available on YT in 10 parts with English subtitles (not the best ones possible IMO, but good enough to understand what's going on - I may be wrong, none of those two languages is my mother tongue, lol!). I tried to watch older/other adaptations (no eng. subs), but even though I'm not a big fan of TV shows in general, I found this one the best of all I checked.
Here is a Wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idiot
and the part 1 on YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG9WwIkIBD0
But be warned, some people find it too depressing!
Psalehesost said:Possibility of Being said:I watched recently a TV series based on [Fyodor Dostoyevsky's] novel "The Idiot" made by Russian Television in 2003 and I loved it. It's available on YT in 10 parts with English subtitles (not the best ones possible IMO, but good enough to understand what's going on - I may be wrong, none of those two languages is my mother tongue, lol!). I tried to watch older/other adaptations (no eng. subs), but even though I'm not a big fan of TV shows in general, I found this one the best of all I checked.
Here is a Wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idiot
and the part 1 on YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG9WwIkIBD0
But be warned, some people find it too depressing!
I watched it earlier over a few days, and it's among the most deeply stirring things I've seen. I'll mention two striking impressions that come to mind.
Firstly, the complete senselessness of people (looking beyond the details, in essence the same around the world and throughout history), all the misery and varieties of mechanical destructiveness - and how everyone (myself included) is an idiot in one or more ways. Somehow, it was all brought home more clearly.
Secondly, perhaps because ponerized culture, and everything it has and does lead to - inwardly and outwardly - has been on my mind: I felt at once a little bit like Dostoyevsky's "idiot" and a little bit like everything that drove him insane.
And Quiet Flows The Don (1957)
The Lady With The Little Dog (1960)
War and Peace (1967)
Anna Karenina (1967)
Uncle Vanya (1970)
Crime and Punishment (1970)
Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977)
Oblomov (1979)
Heart of a Dog (1988)
The Idiot (2003)
The Master and Margarita (2005)
The Brothers Karamazov (2009)