Maxim Munzuk stars as the remarkable title character in Kurosawa classic (courtesy Kino International)
DERSU UZALA (Akira Kurosawa, 1975)
Film Forum
209 West Houston St.
April 14-22
212-727-8110
www.filmforum.org
In this stunning film, director-cowriter Akira Kurosawa has fashioned one of cinema’s greatest characters, a worldly wise, deceptively simple charming man who understands life, nature, responsibility, and helping others. Maksim Munzuk gives a marvelously understated performance as the title character, who is suddenly taken out of his quiet life of solitude when a Russian army troop comes to Siberia. Film Forum is screening the film as part of its continuing celebration of the centennial of Kurosawa’s birth; it will be followed April 23-29 by his 1970 epic DODES’KA-DEN, in a new 35mm print.