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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $13.99 You Save: $5.99 Features • Color • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1962 DVD Release : 25 March, 2008 |
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| Taras Bulba is an old fashioned historical drama grafting a Romeo and Juliet story to a film quite in the vein of The Vikings. At the time of its release, the film was one of the train wrecks of its time, a film disliked not only by critics but by the people who made the film. The intervening years have softened views of the film and now even its harshest critics describe it as entertaining.
Taras Bulba a Cossack is played in rousing style by Yul Brynner. Following the betrayal and defeat of the Cossack brotherhood by the Poles at the beginning of the film, Bulba raises his two sons, Andrei and Ostap, and sends them to a Polish school to study and learn the ways of the enemy. The brothers immediately arouse the hatred of their fellow students. Things get worse when Andrei played by Tony Curtis falls in love with a Polish noblewoman the beautiful Natalia played by Christine Kaufmann. Eventually forced to flee the city, Andrei and Ostap join their father as the Cossacks lay siege. The film is a nice example of a kind of film difficult to find these days set in an exotic more violent time with a fast paced story and appealing performers. It is not the most lavish production but costumes and sets look good enough and filming in Argentina allowed the use of many extras on horseback. It is a pleasure to watch. Even more stunning is the musical score by Franz Waxman. Lavish and beautifully suited to the film, the score moves easily from the romantic them for Natalia to the rousing theme for the ride of the cossacks to Dubno. The music by itself is sufficient reason to see the film. The story on the other hand is weak and if you try to follow it, you will end up scratching your head since the end leaves so much unresolved. Not surprisingly the original story by Nickolai Gogol continues on. But if you are pulled along by the spectacle of the film, you may be able to overlook the weakness of the script. The performances are variable. Yul Brynner is great in the title role. He seems almost to define what we could believe a Cossack might act like. He is perfect for the role. Tony Curtis is good, too, though a little old for the part and not quite as believable. He does bring his usual physical quality to the role. His scenes with the lovely christine Kaufmann are no doubt believable since at the time the two were involved in a highly publicized affair (Curtis was at the time married to Janet Leigh). Other performances range from good to somewhat wooden. For those who cannot get enough of lavish historical action dramas, the release of this film on DVD will be a joy. For the rest, there is still enough here to merit a look. |
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