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Starring: Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Encoding: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Format: Color, Widescreen
Studio: Columbia Tristar Hom
DVD Release Date: July 15, 2003
ASIN: B00009MEKP
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Product Description
Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov is also the star of this tragic
1994 drama about the last happy season in the life of a Bolshevik
hero's family. The year is 1936, and Stalin's purges are in full
swing. Despite his reputation and revolutionary record, Sergei Kotov
(Mikhalkov) seems to be on the dictator's hit list, as indicated
by the insulting arrival of his wife's former lover, an agent of
government police. Mikhalkov treats all this as a matter of personal
and political intrigue dropping like rotting fruit in the middle
of a sunny and loving period for the Kotov clan. The director ingeniously
understates the mounting threat until one begins to realize that
the Kotovs are only geographically distant from the long, bloody
reach of Stalin. By the time we do realize it, the shock of change
is almost unbearable. A very fine movie all around, though Mikhalkov's
touches of magic realism (particularly the presence of a golden
orb that keeps popping into the action) are distracting and a subject
of controversy among viewers
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