The Vanished Empire
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 2, 2010
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Karen Shakhnazarov |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 2.5/4 --
The lost-world aura of the film's clumsy youths provides an inexorable dig into Brezhnev-era diffidence.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 3/5 --
A Russian film about a self-absorbed youth who is driven by an insatiable yearning to have whatever he wants.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 3/4 --
[Director] Shakhnazarov came of age during the Soviet Union's Communist days and brings firsthand experience to the Brezhnev-era The Vanished Empire.
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New York Post
Unsentimental, almost antiheroic snapshot of a disaffected lost generation never billboards its end-of-a-civilization vibe, though that vibe does color its bittersweet nostalgia over youth wasted on the young.
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Variety
Rating: 3/5 --
Evocative period details and persuasive performances lend a poignant sadness to Karen Shakhnazarov's familiar, but well-told, coming-of-age tale.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 2/5 --
The moralistic finale feels tacked on to the vivid celebration of Commie teen lust.
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Time Out
The dead-end on-again, off-again courtship between Sergey and Lyuda bores, and their standard adolescent travails take up most of the screen time.
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Village Voice
Product Description:
Set in 1970s Moscow, this coming-of-age-story takes place against the backdrop of a seemingly indestructible Soviet Union.
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- UPC: 738329066529
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