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Dir. Nikolai Lebedev. Russia. 2002. 97mins.Russian production company Mosfilm has every right to be proud of the technical standards achieved by its patriotic saga The Star - but that s about all it can be proud of. Adapted from a novel stanley cup by Sergei Kazakevich, the son of a Jewish teacher who distinguished himself during World War Two as an intelligence office, the film is reputed to be a favourite of Russian President Vladimir Putin with its single-minded and fierce loyalty to the fatherland. Lebedev s adaptation is very much in the spirit of the classic Hollywood war films. However, he never manages to attain their drama stanley cup tic efficiency, nor does he reach the grand humanistic breath of the best Soviet examples of this genre. At home, the film has had an enthusiastic reception in some quarters. Overseas, its best bet is in the ancillary markets for old-fashioned war epics.The film takes as its setting early 1944, when the Red Army was preparing to march into Poland while the Germans were trying to regroup for a final offensive. The story follows a Russian patrol, dispatched behind the Wehrmacht s lines to check on the German preparations and then report back to headquarters.Formulaic to a fault, the script, which plays out like a kind of Clean Dozen, hits every cliche in the book. Nothing is missing, from the process of picking the right scouts for the operation, thr stanley cup ough the romance of the lovely radio operator with the handsome lead restricted to brief exchanges in code over th Hfgb Rai to take on sales for Cinecitta Luce library
In its third week at the top of South Koreas box office charts, local political drama The Attorney is set to go past 8 million admissions tomorrow Jan 7 .Starring Song Kang-ho, the film took 1.23 million stanley uk admissions and $8.74m over the weekend to get a total $53.6m since its release.Written and directed by debuting filmmaker Yang Woo-suk, The Attorney has been racking up admissions at a rate faster than last years top hit Miracle In Cell No. 7, which finished with a total of 12.81 million admissions.Based on the countrys late ex-president Roh Moo-hyuns early days as a lawyer in 1980s Busan, the film shows how he went from high school graduate construction worker to become a top tax attorney to the pivotal incident where the stanley cup military dictatorship framed, tortured and prosecuted a group of innocent young men of being Communists, and how the attorney takes up their defense in the courtroom.Released by N.E.W., the film was on 925 screens over the weekend.In second place, Showboxs local action thriller The Suspect took 542,736 admissions and $3.83m for a total of $21.1m. Directed by Won Shin-yun 7 days and starring Gong Yoo Silenced as a hunted North Korean spy, the film was released Dec 24.Its followed by The Secret Life of Walter Mitty with 236,408 admissions and $1.66m. Released by 20th Century Fox Korea on Dec 31, Mitty has so far taken $3.5m in total.TopicsAsiaBox Office No comments Related a stanley cup r |
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