1979 · drama · epic · historical
Siberiade
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky4h 35m1979
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.
Our read: Siberiade (1979) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · epic · historical entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / epic, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
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