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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0738329033729
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Kino Video
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kino Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Running Time: 140 minutes
Sales Rank: 44229
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1980
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Writer-director Nikita Mikhalkov (Burnt by the Sun) combines some accomplished and evocative visuals with a tongue-in-cheek morality play about the price of personal freedom in this 1979 adaptation of the 19th-century Russian novel by Goncharov. Oleg Tabakov plays the title character, an amiable and enigmatic man who, after years of anonymous toiling as a landowner, begins to live his life in a virtual slothlike existence. Oblomov is regarded by others around him as something of a harmless joke, but as he passes the days in bed indulging himself with food and aimless pondering, he reminisces about his childhood and the life he's led, and he discovers a fulfilling poetry to his life. Eventually, though, his celebration of laziness threatens to ruin his life and all he holds dear. The film employs a deft and pastoral visual style to augment the joy and freedom this man feels at being able to control his own destiny, even with tragic results. A challenging and thought-provoking effort, Oblomov is a distinct and original piece of cinema. --Robert Lane
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Desire and Inertia
Oblomov resigns his post as a civil servant at the age of 30 and thereafter spends entire days laying in bed daydreaming, bickering with his equally indolent servant, and generally preferring a life of quiet contemplation to a life of action for which he seems singularly unsuited. Oblomov's solitudes are punctuated by his dreams of an idyllic childhood and the peace and love he felt when in the warm embrace of his mother and it is to this kind of warm embrace that he longs to return hence his love ... Read More
Rating:  - Oblomov
OblomovAfter reading the book of Gontcharov, this film just feels so wrong and with no depht in the caracters, Olga seems a silly girl when the lovestory between her and Stoltz is not told, Stoltz appears too arrogant in that version of the story, all the strength of Gontcharov's language is missing in this film-adaptation! The actor of Oblomov is fantastic, but his caracter misses all the sadness of his downfall when the lovestory to his housekeeper is not told - so just never miss the real story, ... Read More
Rating: - Oblomov
Based on a beloved novel by Ivan Goncharov, "Oblomov" combines the sensitivity of a Chekhov tale with the farcical tradition of Russian theater. As the title character, real-life stage director Tabakov is adorably ruffled, indecisive, undisciplined, and wholly empathetic--a perfect metaphor for Mother Russia in the pre-Glasnost era. Mikhalkov wrings a lot of mileage out of his hero's soulful struggles, contrasting the dreariness of the present with the gilded glow of childhood through his adroit use ... Read More
Rating: - Acquire this film!
Up front, this is a great story -- a saga of a very likeable and gullible man who flounders in life and whom refuses to leave his sofa. The story begins in 1859, two years prior to the "freeing" of the Russian serfs and the heyday of the Czars and of the near-useless Russian Nobility. Oblomov's life-long serf-servant, Zhakar, is priceless. Zhakar will quickly have you rolling on the floor, howling with laughter. The cinematography of Oblomov is superior and the subtitles are well-done, quite readable ... Read More
Rating:  - Read the book; the film is no masterpiece
This film captures some of the feeling of the Goncharev novel, which is one of the best books I've ever read. As with any movie about a lengthy literary work, this film glosses over the intricacies of the plot and is a superficial study of the characters. But given the intellectual intricacies of the novel, the director has to get five stars for the effort.
A principal plot line of the book contrasting the pure-heartedness of Oblomov and the conflict between this aspect of his (Russian) character ... Read More
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