Thursday, March 4, 2010

Quiet Flows the Don

The River Don is a silent witness, coming into view now and then throughout this epic film, usually in the background, observing love, stupidity, cruelty, selfishness, bravery, and death. This tale of a Cossack village in the years surrounding the 1917 Revolution is a big-hearted feat of filmmaking, beautifully photographed.

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