This movie which is based on the classic novel with the same name written by Nicolay Gogol, is an epic drama-action that did not shame the original. It is an epic even if based on real historical events, therefore more similar to the Homer's Illiad or other legendary warriors' epics than something following the historical data or romance for love etc. Even if there is a love story in the movie and the book. Highly recomended to anyone who likes stories about great legendary warriors to whom honour is above everything else. Taras Bulba is a hero who defends his vallues: Tribe/Nation; Kazak war-comrades, Bravery, Knightly Honour, even at the price of losing his life and sacrifice his own sons. I think I've already mentioned it but it IS AN EPIC for the brave men.
Review of Taras Bulba
