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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302439366 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 6302439361 Label: Sony Pictures Languages: Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Release Date: June 24, 1994 Running Time: 122 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1991 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Here's an intriguing little premise: Inside Stalin's Kremlin, as seen by... his movie projectionist! Now that's glasnost. As played by Tom Hulce, he's an optimistic little dweeb who believes that Fearless Leader has only his best interests at heart. Most of the film is about his waiting to do his job, getting occasional glimpses of Uncle Joe, not realizing that, when the ruthless dictator finally does engage him in conversation, Stalin might as well be talking to a bug. Bob Hoskins pops up as Berea, head of the KGB and master of deceit--but mostly he wags his eyebrows and looks amused. It's a long slog to the finish, but then, that's true of almost all of director Andrei Konchalovsky's films. --Marshall Fine Average Rating:
 Rating: - When is this EXCELLENT movie going to be released on DVD?This movie is to me Andrei Konchalovsky at his very best. One of the darkest periods of the Russian history told through the eyes of the innocent Ivan Sanshin. Communist Joseph Stalin purportedly killed millions of fellow Russians through famines, executions, deportations, and in the Gulag, most of them for political reasons. No opposition was allowed whatsoever, and Russia experienced the horrors of a blood-thirsty despotic regime with an asphyxiating cult to the "leaders'" persona. ... Read More Rating:  - When the result is minor than the sum of the parts!This is one of these films in which the dimension of the script simply did not cover all the expectations; there was so much to grasp beneath this interesting plot but the one -dimensional approach of the main character and the anecdotic character weakens it deadly. Rating: - An eyewitness to history---behind Stalin's own Curtain.Buzz, buzz, goes the doorbell. A man in his underwear rises to answer the summons in the dead of night, leaving his new bride in bed. "Comrade Sanshin?" the uniformed agent of the KGB asks, as the door opens. "Sir!" Sanshin responds. "You'll be coming with us", the uniform announces. "Where are you taking me, Sanshin asks, nervously; thinking of his neighbor who had just recently been taken away in the middle of the night. "No questions," says the uniform, adding, "we must leave immediately." ... Read More Rating: - Haunting movieEven though this movie is very long and at times can be viewed as depressing, I think this is my all-time fave movie. Ever since the first time I saw it on the History Channel in July of 1996, coming on it during the scene where Ivan is first meeting Stalin and saying his hands are shaking because it's the first time he's stood so close to him, I've been enraptured by it, and always watched it from then on out whenever the History Channel showed it during Movies in Time. Thankfully I videotaped it ... Read More Rating: - How many Katyas are there?A poignant, chilling and fascinating look into what Totalitarianism does to the human mind, and how it destroys innocent lives. Ivan, played by Tom Hulce, is a simple-minded projectionist, who is devoted with all his heart and soul, the Communist Party and its leaders, first and foremost, the mass murderer Stalin. He gets a job working for Stalin and his Ministers, and cannot see that this is the heart of evil. Lolita Davidovich plays the role of his beautiful young wife, Anastasia, ... Read More |
