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The Star (Region 2) [2002]
from Nouveaux Pictures
starring Alexei Kravchenko, Amadu Mamadakov, Anatoly Gushchin
directed by Nikolai Lebedev

Features:

• Dolby
• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Come and See is far superior!
  I love films in general. I have a special taste for war films.
  As the synopsis states, its about a team of Russian Special Forces going behing the lines in Poland. After about 30 Minutes you start to think what you're doing tonight and if you've had your teeth cleaned lately.
  Quite frankly the main failing of this film is YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS. The reason for this is lack of story, acting and script.
  On the bright side, the actions scenes are good as is the camerawork but really... more info

• A good, solid action film.
  ,The Star' is the heroic tale of a Soviet recon mission behind enemy lines during WW2. It is also my favourite Russian film. It's a solid, story-driven war film that literally "sticks to its guns" and doesn't lapse or morph into the ubiquitous Russian arthouse style that seems to permeate the genre. It wants to be, and is, an action film with convincing characters and a strong plot and it's nice to watch a "good old-fashioned" war film, that does what it says on the tin, without depressing morality messages... more info

• A solid propaganda like war movie
  Good war scenes, remembering The Iron Cross, but a little out to date point of view after Prestrojika. Perhaps correct title may be The RED Star

• A view from the Eastern Front
  This is a solid, if not quite spectacular war themed effort from Russia, focusing on the efforts of a young recon squad, infiltrating the German lines to send back information on troop concentrations. Unfortunately we don't get many Russian war films seeing English release, which is a shame as there is an important story to be told, one which many English speaking folk are not familiar with, and as far as we know America won the war on their own! This film obviously had a decent budget, the attack on the... more info

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