Prisoner of the Mountains [VHS]
by Sergei Bodrov
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Actor: Aleksandr Bureyev, Jemal Sikharulidze, Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr., Susanna MekhraliyevaDirector: Sergei Bodrov
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: Russian (Original Language), Analog; Turkish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued, Subtitled
Running Time: 99 minutes
Release Date: 2000-10-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
VHS Movie Reviews of Prisoner of the Mountains [VHS]
Movie Review: Well Done Slice Of Life
Summary: 3 Stars
An interesting look at war and an area of the world that most of us will never see in person. Good performances and nice location photography on obviously a fairly low budget. The story keeps your attention but it's a little slow paced at times, still worth the visit. I don't speak Russian but found the English subtitles easy to follow.
A Russian friend viewed the film as well and she enjoyed it. Her only complaint was that much of the Russian language did not always translate well into English or didn't have the same meaning as was coming up as English.
Movie Review: Breaking stereotypes
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a story of a young Russian soldier taken hostage by the Chechens paid by their follow villager attempting to exchange him on own son arrested and kept by the Federals (Russian Army in Chechnya).
A story is all about brutality and a hope.
Hard to watch but this The Bodrovs'(Brother, Brother 2/ Brat 2, Mongol - Chingishan, for instance) movie breaks some stereotypes of events occurred.
Movie Review: Marvelous acting by Menshikov
Summary: 5 Stars
It was hard to expect from any such a humanistic, unbiased movie of epic reach, given the history and blood weary relations in Caucasus. War movie that does not fall flat in combat scenes, landscape that does not sweeten the movie but enhances the story, complex dark relations not judged but honestly presented. Impossible to expect such a movie from Putin's Russia, check recent "9th Company" by Bondarchuk, which is identical to customary hi-tech Hollywood "patriotic" crap. Prisoner of the Mountains is the rare treat in any national cinematography. Movie Review: Prisoner of the Mountain
Summary: 4 Stars
This was an interesting film. The realism and the magnificence of the mountain scenery infused life into a fascinating glimpse of rural Islamic Afghanistan. I recommend it even if the viewer does not understand any Russian.Movie Review: Appreciation
Summary: 5 Stars
Under the limited Russian titles available for us to purchase. This film echo's my wish for more Russian films to be made. A great example of being a supporter of indi films. High in character development under a low budget circumstance. The dialogues are genuine. The environment is captivating. An excellent anti-war film. Great price!
Summary of Prisoner of the Mountains [VHS]
There's a beautiful irony in the way that the most specific war tales are often the most universal. Set high in the imposing, isolated Caucasus mountains, where the 20th century meets ancient lifestyles, Sergei Bodrov's drama of the Chechyn war finds two opposing cultures locked in conflict for so long that the reasons seem moot. Young Russian grunt Vanya (Sergei Bodrov Jr., the director's son) and his jaded veteran Sergeant (Burnt by the Sun's Oleg Menshikov) survive an ambush by Chechyn guerrillas and wind up hostages of a village elder, a war-weary widower who has lost almost everything to fighting and wants merely to swap them for his POW son. Bodrov's humanism is directed with empathy and stirred with harsh realism--he takes no sides and offers no fantasies of happy endings, only small miracles of kindness that refuse to be swallowed in the destruction and mistrust. --Sean AxmakerGeneral Video
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