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01/26/06
Dersu Uzala (1975)
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Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 9
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of novelist Vladimir Arsenyev's novel about survival, set against the stark wilderness of Siberia. When Mongol guide, Dersu, is hired by a Russian crew of mapping surveyors, they soon... [More]
Reviews for Dersu Uzala
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It's sweetly told and heartwarming, much like a Disney film, but not demanding much of the viewer.
07/19/06
The episodes in this second part go on endlessly, loosely, obviously. They lack the revelations of the winter scenes and they do little but belabor at length the points already made. They wreck the film's balance and make its achievements dull.
05/09/05
Top Critic
To Arseniev, Dersu embodies something civilized men have lost… Neither can really understand the other — which is precisely what makes their friendship so special.
05/31/04
Every frame of Dersu Uzala is simply beautiful to look at. . . . Kurosawa's 140-minute masterpiece is a . . . quietly captivating experience.
12/01/03
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