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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren is coerced by a mercenary officer to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this modernization are the samurai warriors who are holding fast to their traditions of honor, despite their strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader, Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's...
3) The ascent
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
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Description
The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, Larisa Shepitko₂s final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the blizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied Belarus.
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