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| Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Actors: Natalya Andrejchenko, Sergei Shakurov, Vitali Solomin, Vladimir Samojlov, Pascal Aubier
Studio: Kino Video
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 14692
Format: Black & White, Color, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), Russian (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 206 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.2 x 2.1
ISBN: 6303196527
UPC: 738329007980
EAN: 9786303196527
ASIN: 6303196527
Theatrical Release Date: 1979
Release Date: June 27, 2000
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A historical epic film not to be missed January 6, 1999
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This film takes place in a very remote corner of Siberia, and covers several generations of families living there. There is so much to this historical epic that it is hard to focus on any one point in the movie. Beginning with the remote village and the conflict between two families who have never seen the outside world, it goes on to cover the revolution and two world wars. It also shows the discovery of the great oil and gas fields of western Siberia, but never loses the theme of the interaction between the two main families in the movie and how each event affects their relationships. The movie has a dreamlike and symbolic quality in the style of Tarkovsky, without as much of a dizzying effect, and is never dull.
Extraordinary February 11, 2003
Nan (USA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I saw this film in Madrid, in 1979... in Russian with Spanish sub-titles and at the time I spoke no Russian and hardly any Spanish. But no matter, it instantly became my all time favorite movie. I saw the original 6 hour version in two evenings... and it wasn't a minute too long. The main "character" is really the natural splendor of Siberia.... it is a visual jewel. I have since seen cut versions... at various film festivals... the 4 hour version, and the 3 hour version. I long to see the full 6 hour version again. Worth every minute.
Oh, to be exiled to this Siberia! October 10, 2003
Kelly L. Norman (Plymouth, MI United States)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Once one gets past the required Marxist dialectic ("rich people bad, poor people good"), there is nothing less than splendid about this Soviet film. The cinematography alone is breathtaking, and the irony of the more adventuresome characters' constant refrain, "They can't exile you any further than Siberia!" is not lost. The "underdog" family in the film produces men in each generation who shake their fist at their village, rhetorically, and try to get away, but they are always pulled back somehow. As the revolutionary Nikolai says to his young son Alexei, "It's not a good place, but it's the best place for us." The acting is first rate. Grief, loss, hope, and faith are equally represented throughout the film. Most of the actors are more low-key than in Hollywood films (a fact that allows the Siberian woodlands and scenes of village life, as well as stock film of national events, to play out much of the story). But they do not lack passion. Especially touching is a scene of a youngster grieving for his father. The young actor gives a performance beyond his years. The recurrent themes and beautiful scenery and music (folk during the rural scenes, electronic during the sped-up, sepia- tinted stock footage) make the six hours of film very easy to digest. Konchalovsky's Siberiade suggests a cinematic Tchaikovsky symphony, with its alternating poignant romance, pathos, and an ending of hopefulness.
This bro is a winner February 22, 2000
Tagir Galikeev (Golden, Colorado)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
Andron Konchalovskii is certainly the stronger one when considering him to Nikita Mikhalkov. Siberiade is a stronger movie about Russia and Russians than the latest "jewel" from Nikita Mikhalkov called "Siberian Barber". You can also see an influence from Tarkovskii on Konchalovskii in this movie (b/w scene on the swamp). Both of them were working on Andrei Rublev. A must to have movie!
wow June 28, 2007
a reader (Gloucester MA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If only 9 reviews is an indication of how many get to see this film it is a real shame and roll over dr shivago if that's all people think of in terms of a russian epic.Initially a slow start but the film keep rolling and getting bigger and deeper the more it went on.Mind-blowing,moving-Its really great and you got to see it...
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