Review of Dersu Uzala (1961) by Morgan M — 07 Sep 2009

Best film I've seen for a long time. Kurosawa's classic film about a lone Goldi nomadic tribesman's friendship with a Russian military engineer deep in the Siberian wilderness. The engineer is the vanguard of a civilisation that is about to extinguish the nomads lifestyle forever, but for a time there is the fleeting possibility of friendship and respect between the two men, equally humbled before the raw forces of nature.