Literary adaptation: A Cossack chief leads his forces against Poland. But one of his university trained sons is in love with an enemy daughter.
Is it worth your time? If you like black-and-white dramas where people shout their motivations from horseback, maybe. If you need a movie that moves faster than a tired pack mule, skip this. It’s strictly for the kind of person who enjoys seeing how cinema used to try to build a spectacle without digital effects. It’s ...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Alexis Granowsky
Eduardo Notari
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"Is it worth your time? If you like black-and-white dramas where people shout their motivations from horseback, maybe. If you need a movie that moves faster than a tired pack mule, skip this. It’s strictly for the kind of person who enjoys seeing how cinema used to try to build a spectacle without digital effects. It’s definitely not for anyone who gets impatient when the plot stops for three minutes to show a horse running. Harry Baur is just huge here. I don't mean he's a big guy, though he is..."
Ernest Ferny
Carlo Rim, Jacques Natanson, Nikolay Gogol, Fritz Falkenstein, Pierre Benoît
France
