Talk:Prisoner of the Mountains

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Vanya's fate[edit]

Vanya's fate at the end of the film is a bit more ambiguous than this article makes it out to be. Although we never see him shot, he is made to turn around a walk as though for execution purposes, and the sequence seems dream like, as though he was entering the afterlife.

Time period[edit]

As it stands, the only clear evidence that this is not a 19th century period piece (as its status as an adaptation of a Tolstoy story would suggest) is one mention of "flying" and the image. Perhaps it should be clarified that this is a modernization of the Tolstoy... john k (talk) 14:40, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Plot[edit]

Does the plot need to include the ending of this movie? For those who may have not seen it, the write-up gives it away. The27thmaine (talk) 02:42, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tolstoj? Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin[edit]

I'm sure that the film is an adaptation of a Pushkin play. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.144.233.230 (talk) 19:59, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The story line of Pushkin's 1822 writing is about a Russian nobleman taken captive by the Circassians (Caucasians), and of a young local girl that falls in love with him and later lets him go. Tolstoy's version also had one Russian prisoner, didn't it (unlike the movie's two captured soldiers)? I read the latter one a couple of years ago, but I'm not remembering it. Does it also have a "young girl" plot? I need to find a copy of Pushkin's - searching googlebooks at the moment, but not finding full version yet. The27thmaine (talk) 21:54, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]