Entertainment One will release the $25 million Russian-produced epic war film Taras Bulba on DVD on July 26.
Bogdan Stupka is Taras Bulba in a new Russian adaption of Gogol's classic novel.
Based on the famed 1835 novel by Nikolai Gogol and adapted for the screen and directed by Russian filmmaker Vladimir Bortko, Taras Bulba is set in the 16th century and tells of Ukraine’s Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing armies of Poland.
In the midst of the brutal war, the youngest son (Igor Petrenko) of warrior Ukraine warrior Taras Bulba (Bogdan Stupka) disowns his father and swears allegiance to the enemy. But while on a quest for pride and glory, Taras’ eldest son (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) is captured, prompting Taras to set out on mission for vengeance.
The 2008 film was commissioned by Russian state TV and paid for totally by the Russian Ministry of Culture.
Bogdan Stupka is Taras Bulba in a new Russian adaption of Gogol's classic novel.
Based on the famed 1835 novel by Nikolai Gogol and adapted for the screen and directed by Russian filmmaker Vladimir Bortko, Taras Bulba is set in the 16th century and tells of Ukraine’s Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing armies of Poland.
In the midst of the brutal war, the youngest son (Igor Petrenko) of warrior Ukraine warrior Taras Bulba (Bogdan Stupka) disowns his father and swears allegiance to the enemy. But while on a quest for pride and glory, Taras’ eldest son (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) is captured, prompting Taras to set out on mission for vengeance.
The 2008 film was commissioned by Russian state TV and paid for totally by the Russian Ministry of Culture.
- 4/27/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
If you placed the silent fury of Bourne or Quantum of Solace's James Bond in an otherworldly setting, chances are you'd end up with something a little like The Interceptor.
The film hit the big screen in its native Russia last year. It didn't get a cinema release in the UK but is out here on DVD and Blu-ray this week.
This intriguing, surreal and rather abstruse sci-fi adventure - with English subtitles - has visual effects from the same team that worked on Timur Bekmambetov's Nightwatch/Daywatch series.
And the influence of that FX crew is very visible, with some stunning sequences involving physical stunts, fight scenes and computer-generated phenomena.
Directed by Konstantin Maximov, and adapted from the hugely successful series of novels by sci-fi author Vasily Golovachev, it begins with several screens of metaphysical text as a prologue for the fantastical journey that follows.
This prologue...
The film hit the big screen in its native Russia last year. It didn't get a cinema release in the UK but is out here on DVD and Blu-ray this week.
This intriguing, surreal and rather abstruse sci-fi adventure - with English subtitles - has visual effects from the same team that worked on Timur Bekmambetov's Nightwatch/Daywatch series.
And the influence of that FX crew is very visible, with some stunning sequences involving physical stunts, fight scenes and computer-generated phenomena.
Directed by Konstantin Maximov, and adapted from the hugely successful series of novels by sci-fi author Vasily Golovachev, it begins with several screens of metaphysical text as a prologue for the fantastical journey that follows.
This prologue...
- 2/24/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
There is no need to bother Leni Riefenstahl and her Triumph des Willens to demonstrate how powerful propaganda can often be, but it's exactly in cases like hers that you often wonder what her legacy would have been, if ridden of all the political ramifications of (some of) her works. That is one of the reasons why today's Mainland Cinema is so vibrant and interesting, even in its most quintessential main melody form: we're often dealing with pretty obvious pieces of cinematic propaganda, works funded by the government and whose foremost purpose is to drive the masses into supporting a certain creed or philosophy. But for every insipid turd like 建国大业 (The Founding of a Republic), you get plenty of eclectic variations on this melody, works which do fulfill their "quota" of bleeding-heart national sentimentalism, but also manage to focus a large portion of their makers' efforts in building a cohesive,...
- 11/29/2009
- Screen Anarchy
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