Dersu Uzala (Kurasawa 1975, PG)
Corrie Film Club’s film for its May screening is Akira Kurasawa’s masterpiece Dersu Uzala.
Set in the forests of Eastern Siberia, the Taiga, at the turn of the century, Dersu Uzala is a portrait of the friendship that grows between an ageing nomadic hunter and a Russian surveyor.
Dersu, an eccentric Mongolian frontiersman, is taken on as a guide by a Russian surveying crew. While the soldiers perceive him at first as a naive and a comical relic of an uncivilised age, Dersu quickly proves himself otherwise, becoming their unlikely saviour.
The film has been described as: “A romantic hymn to nature and the human spirit.”
Shot on location over nine months, it’s an elegiac film of great visual and spiritual beauty about the relationship between an intelligent European raised in an advanced urban world and a wise, nomadic Asian in close touch with the wilderness.
The awardwinning film can be seen in Corrie and Sannox Hall this Sunday, May 12, at 7.30pm. Everyone welcome.
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