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Dersu Uzala
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original film poster
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Produced by
Yoichi Matsue
Nikolai Sizov
Written by
Vladimir Arsenyev (book)
Akira Kurosawa
Yuri Nagibin
Starring
Maxim Munzuk
Yury Solomin
Music by
Isaak Shvarts
Cinematography
Asakazu Nakai
Yuri Gantman
Fyodor Dobronravov
Editing by
Lyudmila Feiginova
Distributed by
Mosfilm
Release date(s)
USSR July, 1975
Japan August 2, 1975
USA October 5, 1976
Running time
141 mins.
Country
Soviet Union
Japan
Language
Russian
Budget
$4,000,000 (est.)
Dersu Uzala (Russian: §¥§Ö§â§ã§å §µ§Ù§Ñ§Ý§Ñ, Japanese: ¥Ç¥ë¥¹¡¤¥¦¥¶©`¥é; alternate U.S. title: Dersu Uzala: The Hunter) is a 1975 Soviet-Japanese co-production film directed by Akira Kurosawa, his first non-Japanese-language film and his first and only 70 mm film. The film won the Grand Prix at the Moscow Film Festival and the 1975 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The film is based on the 1923 memoir Dersu Uzala by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, about his exploration of the Sikhote-Alin region of Siberia over the course of multiple expeditions in the early 20th century.
The film is almost entirely shot outdoors in the Siberian wilderness. The film explores the theme of a native of the forests who is fully integrated into his environment, leading a style of life that will inevitably be destroyed by the advance of civilization. It is also about the growth of respect and deep friendship between two men of profoundly different backgrounds, and about the difficulty of coping with the loss of strength and ability that comes with old age.
The film sold 20.4 million tickets in the Soviet Union and made $1.2 million in the US and Canada.[1]
Contents
1 Plot
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
[edit] Plot
The film opens to a forest that is being cleared for development, and Arseniev searching for an unmarked grave. The film then flashes back to Arseniev's surveying expedition to the area of Shkotovo in Ussuri region in 1902. A topographic expedition troop, led by Captain Arseniev (Yuri Solomin), encounters a nomadic, aboriginal Nanai tribesman named Dersu Uzala (Maxim Munzuk) who agrees to guide them through the harsh frontier. Initially viewed as an uneducated, eccentric old man, Dersu earns the respect of the soldiers through his great intelligence, accurate instincts, keen powers of observation, and deep compassion. He repairs an abandoned hut and leaves provisions in a birch container so that a future traveler would survive in the wilderness. He deduces the identities and situations of people by analyzing tracks and articles left behind.
Dersu Uzala saves the lives of Captain Arseniev and one of his men not once, but twice. First, when a sudden blizzard overtakes Dersu and the Captain, Dersu shows Arseniev how to quickly build a straw hut for shelter using grass. The two men avoid freezing to death and are discovered by the rest of their comrades when the blizzard clears. Five years later in 1907, Dersu and Captain Arseniev again find each other in the wilderness. When Dersu and Arseniev fall into swift moving currents while crossing a river in a raft, Dersu forces Arseniev to swim while the raft is close to shore then directs the party to cut a tree which can reach him before he drowns.
At the end of the expedition, he leaves the soldiers by the railroad tracks and returns to wilderness, only to encounter Arseniev again, years later, on another surveying expedition. However, Dersu's eyesight and other senses begin to fade with age. Dersu is no longer able to hunt, and the Siberian tiger stalking the old man comes very close until Dersu shoots at the predator. Captain Arseniev decides to take Dersu with him to the city of Khabarovsk. Dersu quickly discovers that he is not permitted to chop wood or to build a hut and fireplace in the city park, nor is he allowed to shoot within the city limits. The constables often bring Dersu back to the house, and one day he asks to leave the city and return to living in the hills. As a parting gift, Arseniev gives him a new rifle.
Some while later, Arseniev receives a telegram informing him that the body of a Goldi has been found, with no identification on him save Arseniev's calling card, and is requested to come identify the body. Arseniev finds that it is indeed Dersu. The officer who found Dersu speculates that someone may have killed Dersu to obtain the new rifle that Arseniev gave him.
[edit] See also
Dersu Uzala (Russian: §¥§Ö§â§ã§å §µ§Ù§Ñ§Ý§Ñ) - 1961 Soviet film directed by Agasi Babayan
Dersu Uzala (book, 1923)
Photograph of Dersu Uzala, ca. 1902-1907
[edit] References
^ Zemlianukhin, Sergei; Miroslava Segida (1996) (in Russian). Domashniaia sinemateka 1918¨C1996 (§¥§à§Þ§Ñ§ê§ß§ñ§ñ §³§Ú§ß§Ö§Þ§Ñ§ä§Ö§Ü§Ñ 1918¨C1996). Moscow: Duble-D. p. 118. ISBN 5-900902-05-6.
[edit] External links
Dersu Uzala at the Internet Movie Database
Dersu Uzala at AllRovi
Stills from Dersu Uzala with Russian text
A site dedicated to Dersu Uzala
Dersu Uzala (Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database
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Films directed by Akira Kurosawa
1940s
Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
The Most Beautiful (1944)
Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945)
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945)
No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
Drunken Angel (1948)
The Quiet Duel (1949)
Stray Dog (1949)
1950s
Scandal (1950)
Rashomon (1950)
The Idiot (1951)
Ikiru (1952)
Seven Samurai (1954)
I Live in Fear (1955)
Throne of Blood (1957)
The Lower Depths (1957)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
1960s
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Yojimbo (1961)
Sanjuro (1962)
High and Low (1963)
Red Beard (1965)
1970s
Dodesukaden (1970)
Dersu Uzala (1975)
1980s
Kagemusha (1980)
Ran (1985)
1990s
Dreams (1990)
Rhapsody in August (1991)
Madadayo (1993)
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Academy Award for Foreign Language Film Winners (1961¨C1980)
1961: Through a Glass Darkly
Ingmar Bergman
1962: Sundays and Cybele
Serge Bourguignon
1963: 8?
Federico Fellini
1964: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Vittorio De Sica
1965: The Shop on Main Street
J¨¢n Kad¨¢r & Elmar Klos
1966: A Man and a Woman
Claude Lelouch
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Ji?¨ª Menzel
1968: War and Peace
Sergei Bondarchuk
1969: Z
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1970: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Elio Petri
1971: The Garden of the Finzi Continis
Vittorio De Sica
1972: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Luis Bu?uel
1973: Day for Night
Fran?ois Truffaut
1974: Amarcord
Federico Fellini
1975: Dersu Uzala
Akira Kurosawa
1976: Black and White in Color
Jean-Jacques Annaud
1977: Madame Rosa
Mosh¨¦ Mizrahi
1978: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Bertrand Blier
1979: The Tin Drum
Volker Schl?ndorff
1980: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
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