Stephen the Great - Vaslui 1475

a film who represents the period of making, the desire of propaganda to use the national history as tool, the fight of director to save the story using slices from the novel by Mihail Sadoveanu The Brothers Jder. in essence, drawing of a memorable battle and portrait of a great Romanian Medieval hero. the speeches, the message who ignores historical authenticity are, today, only details. Gheorghe Cozorici does a decent job and that is key of the success of film today. his Stephen the Great is image of a mythological hero- wise, courageous, powerful and vulnerable in same measure. sure, the source of emotion is not always most inspired, the dialogs are not always convincing. but it is a crumb from an under political regime's culture. and the science to do more than a fresco of a battle but a sensitive country fighting for its freedom is the basic virtue of film.