Taras Bulba
List Price:
Our Price: $7.77
You Save: $7.21 (48%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $6.75 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Brad Dexter, Chuck Hayward, Mickey Finn, Vladimir Irman, Yul BrynnerBrand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Joe MacDonald
Composer: Franz Waxman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; Latin (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Taras Bulba
Movie Review: Could have been truer to Gogol's classic book
Summary: 3 Stars
Good old Yul ( actually a Ukrainian who never admitted his heritage and instead preferred to offer the public various absurd explanations of his ancestry ) is perfect for this role and its no wonder that this project was so important to him in so many ways. The Cossacks were among the world's most outstanding warriors. They offered unrelenting and valorious battle to the Ottoman Turks, Mongol Tartars, and invading Poles while facing the overwhelming numbers of these enemy forces. History must recognize the Cossack as the most outstanding horseman any culture ever produced. A Cossack could slice an enemy in half with a single blow from his sword arm. He fought with halberd, pike, mace, warclub, spear, and sword. His courage in the face of superior enemy numbers was unquestionable and a matter of historic record. Such were those rustic, scalp-locked riders of the Ukrainian Steppes!
This movie is good, but that's all. Hollywood ruined it - PERIOD ! Considering WHO the people were who ran studios in those days, its no surprise either. At least the script could have followed the story Nicholi Gogol wrote in which Taras Bulba meets his end as a Polish captive who is burned at the stake. This would have been an ending that would have allowed Yul's macho persona to really electrify the screen since Gogol's character is defiant and haughty toward his enemies even as the flames licked at his legs! Instead this movie offers the viewer an ending that is mush! A pathetic excuse of a finale in which the Cossacks become humane toward enemies who had been utterly inhuman toward them for decades! Absurd and sickening! However, some of the battle scenes are worth watching just in themselves.
Anyway, it could have been better, but at least its something in terms of Medieval Eastern European history on film.
Summary of Taras Bulba
Set in the 16th century Ukraine two Cossack brothers find themselves battling each other when one wants to recover land from the treacherous Poles and the other falls in love with a Polish girl. Breathtaking scenes. Academy Award Nominations: Best (original) Score.System Requirements:Running Time; 122 mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE/CLASSICS Rating:?NR UPC:?883904103073 Manufacturer No:?M110307"I will kiss the devil before my son wears a Polish collar!" declares Cossack warrior Taras Bulba, thus laying down the fundamental conflict of this epic film, based on the classic book by Russian novelist Nikolai Gogol. After the Polish army and the Cossacks defeat the Turks, the Poles betray their fierce collaborators in order to claim the Cossacks' ancestral home, the Steppes. Scattered, the Cossacks bide their time, and Bulba (Yul Brynner) sends his son Andrei (Tony Curtis) to a Polish college to learn the secrets of their culture. Though Andrei faces cruelty and prejudice, he falls in love with a Polish noblewoman, Natalia (Christine Kaufmann, a lovely German actress in one of her few English-language roles). Andrei, torn by love and loyalty to his people, risks everything in a desperate attempt to win Christine, even if it pits him against his own father. Taras Bulba is far from a great film--there are some laughable special effects, the battle scenes are confused and sluggish, and Curtis never quite loses his Bronx accent. Despite that, Curtis' star power comes through, and Yul Brynner tears up the screen with his amazing physical presence and emotional intensity; the man was truly a unique and compelling actor, who found only a few roles that suited him--this was one. By the end, Gogol's muscular plot catches you in its grip. The hypnotically gripping final scenes overcome all the cheesiness that came before. --Bret Fetzer
Action & Adventure DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in Films about Imperial Russia
Civil Counsellor / Statsky sovetnikPublished: 2005; DVD
Best price: $18.99
Turkish Gambit / Turetskiy Gambit by Boris Akunin's book (REGION 5)(DVD PAL)NO SUBTITLESPublished: 2005; DVD
Best price: $7.31
The Flight / BegPublished: 2005; DVD
Best price: $19.50
A Cruel RomanceRelease date: 2002-11-19; DVD
Best price: $11.90
Price in other shops:
Quiet Flows the DonKino Video; Release date: 2007-03-06; DVD
Best price: $21.62
Price in other shops:
Agony: The Life and Death of RasputinRelease date: 2005-11-08; DVD
Best price: $18.49
Price in other shops:
![Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny [Region 2] Image](/images/Rasputin-Dark-Servant-of-Destiny-Region-2-B00004UEZL-X.jpg)
Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny [Region 2]DVD
Best price: $25.99
Biography - Rasputin: The Mad MonkA&E; Release date: 2005-09-27; DVD
Best price: $7.26
Price in other shops:
Biography - Peter the Great: The Tyrant ReformerA&E; Release date: 2005-12-27; DVD
Best price: $5.93
Price in other shops:
The Lady With a Little DogRelease date: 2005-08-09; DVD
Best price: $17.25
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
Land of the PharaohsWarner Brothers; Release date: 2007-06-26; DVD
Best price: $7.96
Price in other shops:
The Agony and the EcstasyHESTON/HARRISON; Release date: 2005-02-22; DVD
Best price: $4.89
Price in other shops:
The Last ValleyCAINE,MICHAEL; Release date: 2004-05-25; DVD
Best price: $4.72
Price in other shops:
Quo Vadis (Two-Disc Special Edition)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2008-11-11; DVD
Best price: $13.80
Price in other shops:
The Long ShipsWIDMARK,RICHARD; Release date: 2003-06-24; DVD
Best price: $10.87
Price in other shops:
The VikingsDOUGLAS,KIRK; Release date: 2002-05-07; DVD
Best price: $6.48
Price in other shops:
The Fall Of The Roman Empire (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (The Miriam Collection)GENIUS PRODUCTS INC; Release date: 2008-04-29; DVD
Best price: $4.45
Price in other shops:
El Cid (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (The Miriam Collection)WELLSPRING/GENIUS; Release date: 2008-01-29; DVD
Best price: $11.81
Price in other shops:
Solomon & ShebaTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2008-03-25; DVD
Best price: $7.27
Price in other shops:
Kings of the SunTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2008-03-25; DVD
Best price: $7.10
Price in other shops: