Taras Bulba

2009 [RUSSIAN]

Action / Drama / History / War

2
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 3634 3.6K

based on novel or book parent child relationship cossack sword fight 16th century

Director

Vladimir Bortko Photo
Vladimir Bortko

Top cast

Les Serdyuk Photo
Les Serdyuk as Tovkach
Daniel Olbrychski Photo
Daniel Olbrychski as Krasnevsky
Igor Petrenko Photo
Igor Petrenko as Andriy Bulba
Vladimir Vdovichenkov Photo
Vladimir Vdovichenkov as Ostap Bulba
480p.DVD
1.11 GB
704*288
Russian 2.0
NR
Subtitles
25 fps
2 hr 8 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by khurshid_40 7 / 10

Good film with graphic material

Film initially glue you with seat. You feel it interesting. Faces expressing the personality. Good photograph. But when you reach to the end, too much spilling of blood on screen nourish distaste. It would have been a good picture if it had sensible editing.
Reviewed by jiri-severa 6 / 10

Hmmmm, not sure about this one....

Unfortunately, this version of the great classic does not do it great justice. Bohdan Stupka's great performance does not elicit much response in either Vladimir Vdovichenkov as the brave Ostap or Igor Petrenko as the tragically star-struck Andrii. Partly, this looks like a poor script as the lines follow just too closely the original text of Gogol. Partly, this goes to the director's focus which was far more on the settings than dialogues, except when delivering propaganda one-liners a la Eisenstein or Dovzhenko. Overall, this version of Taras Bulba seems just too much of an agitprop forthe new Cossack village creed of militant Russian patriotism and pride in martial traditions of the legendary steppe marauders which finds its natural outlet in heavy drinking and voting loyalty to Yedinaya Rossija.
Reviewed by tony-struyf 7 / 10

Russian propaganda

I mostly agree with comments posted previously by other viewers, about the permanent propaganda-style used in longish and unrealistic patriotic speeches. I translated the movie into French and English subtitles to add on divx (they will be available soon on OS) and I got quickly bored by the seeming repetitiveness of several speeches. Beingmarried to a Ukrainian lady, I'm also very much aware that Bortko had to kinda "steal" the true story and replace it by Russian propaganda. Just have a look at who's at the steering wheel in Russia, now ! My feeling is that this movie was sponsored by Russian public funds for the "nashy" and their followers.
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