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Release Date: 03 October, 2000 Retail Price: $29.95 OUR Price: $8.47 You SAVE: $21.48! Cast: |
East-West Reviews
A Masterpiece/Guaranteed to shed a tear!!!
An extraordinary film, East West, brings to the screen the story of a Russian man, his French wife and their young boy, as they are duped by Stalin's regime into immigrating to the USSR shortly after the end of WWII.
Once there, they realize what a mistake they've made with their dreams of a better future shattered and their lives turning into a living hell.
It is a film about human relations, love, hope and inner strength, but most importantly about duty, loyalty, devotion and integrity; qualities that sadly seem to have all but vanished from every day life. The movie does a great job of describing the inhuman conditions behind the Iron Curtain in that giant gulag known as Stalin's USSR.
Oleg Menshikov, Sandrine Bonnaire, (the late) Sergei Bodrov, Catherine Deneuve, and the rest of the cast, have truly outdone themselves with their performances, which are outstanding to say the least! All the actors, without exceptions, give it their 100% and it really shows (the chemistry is AMAZING)! Very well written and very well presented, it combines drama, action, and adventure, making it one of the best films of its kind.
The setting, the plot, the dialogues and the music are all wonderful!
In short, East West is a movie definitely worth watching and one to seriously consider adding to your movie collection!
Strongly recommended along with Nikita Mihalkov's Barber of Siberia, starring (also) Oleg Menshikov and Julia Ormond among others!
As for the previous reviewer's (SonyaNatalia) ill-placed/unfortunate comments, what is a Ukrainian nationalist doing in Australia??? Warsaw, Washington or Tel-Aviv are sooo much closer to Kiev... She's a long way from home it seems...
Just a reminder
I absolutely love this film, and it hits very close to home, as I am Ukrainian.
I would just like to remind reviewers that Kyiv (and not the Russian name Kiev) is in fact the capital city of Ukraine, and not in Russia at all. The Ukrainian people sufferend a great deal at the hands of the Russians, and talking about our capital as being Russian is simply adding insult to injury.
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