Talk:Prisoner of the Mountains

Vanya's fate

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

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)

Plot

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)

Tolstoj? Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

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)

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)