#Dersu Uzala

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Dersu Uzala (1975) | dir. Akira Kurosawa

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Various poster designs for films: DAISIES (1966, dir. Věra Chytilová), MAGNOLIA (1999, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson), DERSU UZALA (1975, dir. Akira Kurosawa), GIVE HER THE MOON (1970, dir. Philippe de Broca), GUMMO (1997, dir. Harmony Korine), MEAN STREETS (1973, dir. Martin Scorsese), THE ARISTOCATS (1970, dir. Wolfgang Reitherman) and NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959, dir. Alfred Hitchcock).

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I was talking to a friend about painting references in movies, and I was googling and found a bunch of misinformation, if you can believe it! Here is an easy one. This scene:

is not a reference to Wanderer above the Sea of Fog:

It is a reference to Dersu Uzala, a Kurosawa film:

Dersu Uzala is an unusual Kurosawa film because it's in color and in Russian. It came out in 1975, just two years before Star Wars. The binary sunset is actually our own sun and moon.

Lucas' favorite inspiration was Kurosawa, and Williams' favorite inspiration was Stravinsky. Check with those guys first!

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Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, 1975).

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SUBLIME CINEMA #640 - DERSU UZALA

By the time Kurosawa was offered Dersu Uzala by Soviet studio Mosfilm , he had just attempted suicide after a short-lived, failed Hollywood career and a string of unsuccessful films. This movie was made during that period of shakiness, funding droughts, and deep depression for the director, whom Darryl Zanuck had recently declared mentally ill.

It turned into one of Kurosawa’s best and most self-reflective works, and it’s his only 70mm outing. The film is shot entirely on eye level, keeping you oriented as a spectator to an ever encroaching vastness of the Taiga - where the film was made, under grueling conditions.  

I’ve never seen a good transfer of this, and I’m not sure one exists; this is almost a forgotten Kurosawa but deserves a solid restoration. 

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Dersu Uzala

Akira Kurosawa

Ultra-rare original 1975 Japanese B1 poster

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Dersu Uzala, Akira Kurosawa, 1975

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Poster for Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala 

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Önem verdiklerim…

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DERSU UZALA

We watched this movie by Akira Kurosawa and 2 days later are still talking about it.

Available free on YouTube.

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From simplicity and wisdom to love for nature.

Masterpiece of cinema

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Максим Мунзук и Юрий Соломин в фильме Акиры Куросавы "Дерсу Узала"

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"Her acı bir ders verir

Her ders ise insanı değiştirir..."