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Features: DVD, Letterbox, English, Subtitled
Editor's Note
A "man of the woods" saves the members of a Russian surveying expedition by teaching them how to cope with nature. Years later, a member of the team meets up with him again, and tries to convince him to come and live in the city. Academy awards: Best Foreign Language Film.
Plot Summary
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 realize their original negative opinion of him as an inexperienced, naive eccentric, is woefully inaccurate, when they must rely on his bravery and courage to get them out of difficulty.
| Features | Region 0 | | Snap Case | | Letterbox - 2.35 | | Widescreen - 2.35 | | Additional Release Material:
| Trailers: International Theatrical Trailer - U.S. Theatrical Trailer |
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| Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Image |
| Release Date: 5/23/2002 |
| Running Time: 140 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1975 | | Catalog ID: 172 | | UPC: 00738329017224 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: Russian | | Available Audio Tracks: Russian | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew | Maxim Munzuk - Featured | | Yuri Solomin - Featured | | Akira Kurosawa - Director |
| Awards |
Academy Awards (1975) |  | Winner, Best Foreign Language Film |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...A rousing action-adventure...[and] a portrait of and an elegy to spiritual purity." -- Rating: A 08/19/1994 p.69Sight and Sound
"As in many Sokurov and Tarkovsky films, the landscape is as important as any character..." 05/01/2007 p.93 |
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