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Dersu Uzala [videorecording (DVD)].

Kino On Video : distributed by Image Entertainment, 2000.

Dersu Uzala -- Drama.

Arsenʹev, V. K. (Vladimir Klavdievich), 1872-1930 -- Travel -- Ussuri River Valley (Russia and China) -- Drama.

Hunters -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Biography -- Drama.

Alternate title:

Akira Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

Deluxe letterboxed ed.

1 videodisc (144 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on the book by Vladimir Arsenyev.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1974.

Includes original United States release trailer.

A Soviet-Japanese co-production.

In Russian with optional English subtitles ; also includes an English dubbed track (not noted in the menu options).

A Kino International release ; Mosfilm ; Trete Tvorcheskoe Obledinenie SSR ; pri-uchastii Trete-41 Ianomia ; in association with Gerald J. Rappoport and Satra Films and Special Projects Corporation ; directed by Akira Kurosawa ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Yuri Nagibin ; produced by the Mosfilm Studios USSR ; with the participation of Atelier-41 ; a New World picture.

Maxim [i.e. Maxsim] Munzuk and Yuri Solomin.

"Against a backdrop of the treacherous mountains, rivers and icy plains of the Siberian wilderness, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa (The Seven Samurai, Rashomon) stages an extraordinary adventure of comradeship and survival. For decades, Kurosawa had longed to film Vladimir Arsenyev's novel and was only able to do so at the invitation of Mosfilm Studios in Russia, who financed an arduous, two-year filmmaking expedition into the far reaches of Siberia. The Academy Award-winning (Best Foreign Language Film) Dorsum Uzala is the enthralling tale of an eccentric Mongolian frontiersman (Maxim Munzuk) who is taken on as a guide by a Soviet surveying crew. While the soldiers at first perceive Dersu as a naive and comical relic of an uncivilized age, he quickly proves himself otherwise with displays of ingenuity and bravery unmatched by any member of the inexperienced mapping team, on more than one occasion becoming their unlikely savior. Most obviously inviting comparison to Kurosawa's epics Ran and Kagemusha, Dersu Uzala has just as much in common with the director's more elegiac dramas such as Ikiru and Dodes'ka-den. Through the eyes of a sympathetic Soviet captain (Yuri Solomon), it tenderly observes the hunter's physical and spiritual decline, mournfully paralleled with the gradual disappearance of the wilderness itself - replaced by a civilized world that has no room for the barbaric."--Container.

Academy Award: Best Foreign Language Film, 1975.

Adventure films.

Biographical films.

Survival films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Arsenʹev, V. K. (Vladimir Klavdievich), 1872-1930. Dersu Uzala. English

Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.

Munzuk, Maxsim, 1910-1999.

Solomin, ︠I︡U. M. (︠I︡Uriĭ Mefodʹevich), 1935-

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