21. August 2004, 00:00

I have watched a excellent Russian movie: "Кавказский пленник" ("Gefangen im Kaukasus"). It is definitaly no movie for fans of special effects pictures. But I am not one of those anyway.

It is a movie about the Russians and Chechens during the Chechen War. And what went wrong between these two people. Why the cannot understand eachother, cannot understand the different cultures, traditions and habits. And that's why that war cannot end. If the people are forced to listen to the other one, to try to understand the other side, then they see, how unnecessary this war is. At both sides normal human beings stand with their equal feelings and thoughts. So, this is, actually, not the war of those people, not in their interest. Well, probably like most wars.

And last not least the excellent actors made that film as outstanding.



Here some other good Russian movies, I like:

+ "Броненосец Потемкин" ("Panzerkreuzer Potemkin")
...and several other movies by Eisenstein like "Александр Невский" ("Alexander Newski")

+ "ЛЕТЯТ ЖУРАВЛИ" ("Die Kraniche ziehen")

+ "СУДЬБА ЧЕЛОВЕКА" ("Ein Menschenschicksal")

+ "УТОМЛЕННЫЕ СОЛНЦЕМ" ("Die Sonne, die uns taeuscht")

+ "ОГОНЬ, ВОДА И... МЕДНЫЕ ТРУБЫ" ("Feuer, Wasser und Posaunen")
I have watched this one in cinema when I was a child of about five or six, and I was very impressed by this movie. I even was very much scared about a few scenes in it (when I was a child!). Just a sample of several other good Russian (Soviet) fairy tale movies.