
A "Romeo and Juliet" story that takes place in the late 16 c. Ukraine. Taras has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with his cossack companions. Though not wealthy, he is able to send his son Andrii away to a Polish school. At this time the Poles are overlords of Ukraine and the origin of the cossacks is struggle of the Ukrainian serfs to free themselves and their land of Polish domination. Toward this end Taras hopes that his son w... (Full plot summary below)
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A "Romeo and Juliet" story that takes place in the late 16 c. Ukraine. Taras has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with his cossack companions. Though not wealthy, he is able to send his son Andrii away to a Polish school. At this time the Poles are overlords of Ukraine and the origin of the cossacks is struggle of the Ukrainian serfs to free themselves and their land of Polish domination. Toward this end Taras hopes that his son will be educated in the ways of the enemy. Instead, Andrii falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman, setting the stage for a clash between love, family honor, and a struggle for national identity.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt seems to be in genre form when showing hordes of Cossack horsemen flying across the steppes to do battle. |
| User ReviewJanet Wthe second most sexiest Blad guy that i have ever encountered |
| User ReviewMichael VFirst rate adventure film with stellar performance by Yul Brynner and a majestic score by Franz Waxman. |
| User ReviewBob BPerhaps my favorite epic of all time. Cossacks drinking, dancing, wenching, killing & pillaging. Curtis a Cossack by way of Brooklyn, but who cares? |
| User ReviewMorag BI saw this when I was about 13 and didn't stop crying for 2 days. I still remember it as if it was yesterday - an indellible impression! |
| User ReviewAlex KIf your a passionate ukrainian, this is the film to see. |
| User ReviewStuart KStarring Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner. Need I say more? |
| User ReviewJulie MMy son married to Polish woman.....how cool was Yul Bryner? |
| User ReviewMichael Wfamily classic... tale of the Ukrainian Cossacks with the Turks and Poland. A Great tale! |
| User Reviewangie pLove this movie. It's a Romeo and Juliet type of story set in Poland. My favorite scenes were when Christine Kauffman was reading under a tree and Tony Curtis was staring at her, when they met in secret at the market and went dancing by some lake, when Christine's brother caught her staring out of her balcony at Tony Curtis, the part when Tony Curtis was drunk and almost made out with a gypsey girl, but he saw Christine's face over the gypsey girl. I liked how you can still see the gypsey girls face but Christine's face is transparent and covering the other girls face. That seemed really emotional and I cried. It was so sad they kept using her transparent smiling face over the girl, the castle, and mostly when he was thinking about her. Made me feel like I was Tony Curtis wondering if I'll ever be reunited with my true love. The fact that he was always thinking about her and how he was forced to trade sides so Christine wouldn't be burned at the stake. The ending made me cry for hours. It was so sad. To be next to eachother finally again when the war was over, and Tony (Andrew) was already dead. And how Yul Brynner (Taras Bulba), sees Christine go over to Tony's dead body and mourn. He was probably thinking so this is the girl he was so crazy about. Sad that the last time they were together was when they got caught by the Poles and they were going to burn her. And he spent all that time thinking about her and never saw her again. Not even as he was dying, she came after he died. |