The Idiot / Hakuchi / Идиот (1951)
DVD-Rip | Japanese, Russian | Subtitle: English (not built in) | 2:46:22 | 720 x 544 | 25fps | DivX, 1347 kbps | AC3, 224 kb/s, 3 ch | 2.05 GB
Genre: Drama
DVD-Rip | Japanese, Russian | Subtitle: English (not built in) | 2:46:22 | 720 x 544 | 25fps | DivX, 1347 kbps | AC3, 224 kb/s, 3 ch | 2.05 GB
Genre: Drama
Dostoyevsky’s dark parable on human emotion is uprooted from its Russian Summer setting and manoeuvred to the cold, snowy straits of northern Japan in Akira Kurosawa’s bleak but majestic adaptation of The Idiot.
The Idiot, his only adaptation of a Fyodor Dostoevsky novel, was a cherished project on which it is claimed he expended more effort than on any other film. A darkly ambitious exploration of the depths of human emotion, it combines the talents of two of the greatest Japanese actors of their generation — Toshiro Mifune (Seven Samurai, Yojimbo) and Setsuko Hara (Tokyo Story, Late Spring). The Idiot is perhaps the most contemplative of all Kurosawa’s works, a tone which is heightened by the unusual, trance-like performances.
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