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Writer-director Richard Brooks’s 1958 Metrocolor film The Brothers Karamazov turns Fedor Dostoevsky’s 1880 novel into a busy melodrama of a boorish Russian father’s murder, the false imprisonment of one of his three illegitimate sons, boisterous army […]
Director Anatole Litvak’s 1937 Warner Bros period screwball comedy Tovarich is written by Casey Robinson, based on a play by Jacques Déval and Robert E Sherwood (English version). It stars Claudette Colbert as the Grand […]
Director James Fargo’s 1978 Iran/ US co-production action adventure movie Caravans is set in 1948 in a fictional country called Zakharstan and stars Michael Sarrazin as a young American Embassy employee Mark Miller (Michael Sarazyn) tasked […]
Director Grigori Kozintsev’s 1964 world cinema masterpiece Hamlet is quite unlike any other version with a very cinematic vision shown by director Kozintsev, especially in his dramatic depiction of the towering castle of Elsinore and […]
Eric Rohmer’s witty and affecting adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist’s famous novella Die Marquise von O… [The Marquise of O] is set at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. It focuses on the honourable German […]
For his penultimate film, director Clarence Brown’s 1925 The Eagle, Rudolph Valentino plays Lieutenant Vladimir Dubrovsky, a Russian Cossack officer who disguises himself as an outlaw called The Black Eagle to avenge his father’s murder. […]
Only Klaus Maria Brandauer raises a real spark of interest in director Joe Roth’s superficial 1986 Rocky clone, Streets of Gold, based on a story by Dezso Magyar. He plays Alek Neuman, a Russian Jewish […]