Dmitriy Kantemir

film of good intentions, it has only two virtues - the music and the image. the dialogs are almost fake - but it is not a great sin -, the performance , in the best case, decent. and the cause is not the art of actors or a not good director but the politic. in fact, it is Soviet version to a Romanian film. fruit of ambition. and, like many other historical movies, a propaganda tool. it is difficult define it more than a common film of period. not worse but interesting testimony for past use under Communism. clichés, errors, beautiful sequences are ingredients for a story who remind the figure of a special Moldavian ruler, essential piece for Romanian and Russian history.

answer to the Romanian film about Dimitrie Cantemir, it has all the virtues and the sins of middle low Soviet films. good actors and not the most inspired dialogues, the script who represents lesson about patriotic virtues as part of duties of the Communist Party's politic, beautiful images and dramatic moments, the moral victory of the hero. the differences by Gheorghe Vitanidis' Cantemir are only result of perspective. the simplicity of story who not gives great surprises, the few details, dramatic last part and the manner of Mihail Volontir to give a gray Cantemir , profound different by the delicate and refined character of Alexandru Repan. short, a nice film , interesting more for the flavor of period in which it was produced.