Friday Night Film

Dersu Uzala (1975) 144 min. Uzala was a tough, smart, funny, humble Nanai hunter and trapper. In 1902 he guided the Russian explorer Arsenyev on his expeditions to the forests of the Siberian Far East. Uzala had grown up integrated into a style of life that would inevitably be destroyed by the advance of civilization. A late-period film by the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, with stunning cinematography. Rated G. In Russian and Chinese with subtitles.