Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381246629
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 09, 2005
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 31168
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1976
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Description:
In a small Crimean town, a motion picture cameraman illegally films resistance activity and tries to awaken the political consciousness of a glamorous movie star.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good in many ways
Like many Soviet films, the filmmakers have to dance around sensitive issues and toe the party line. The true beauty of this film is not in the script or the story. Much of the script is hackneyed and the characters are broad (and sometimes insulting) parodies (although the cast is first rate), but visually, stunning isn't the word. Not just great natural-light cinematography, but artless. Crimea in spring must be very beautiful, but it is just astounding how perfectly it is captured. And this betrays some simple truths. The censors (and self-censorship) hobbled the filmmakers' art in the USSR, but they could and did cut loose as technical virtuosi. Wow.
Rating:  - teetering on the brink
I give this movie five stars even though the ending is contrived Soviet hogwash.
But up until the last few minutes...it's wonderful.
The characters are members of a film crew trying to hide from the Revolution in the resort towns of the Crimea. But of course they can't hide from history, and they know it. So they live through this last summer, already nostalgic for a present that is slipping away. Their love for what they are losing is overwhelming.
THis was the first video I ever bought - I'm glad to see that it is out in DVD. It is beautifully filmed and acted and full of a wonderful bittersweet quality that anyone who has ever lived through a happy day and seen it end can identify with.
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