CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

UFUK BATUM It's one of the best films I've ever watched. I think that in a heavy storm with Hollywood-made films coming from all directions (distributed in all channels), films like "Vor" is worth while to note and to recommend. Little budget, but great creativity and fun. The little Sanya is very talented in acting. I wonder where he is right now and what he is up to. I believe that all went well with this film... The plot is excellent... The cast is well chosen... The sense is fully there... I think the success of such films provide hope for other "low-budget" film makers. I believe in the power and taste of cinema, but I believe more in the social/cultural European filming. I wonder how this new globalization will affect the film industry in the years to come!!??

Lee Eisenberg "Vor" (called "The Thief" in English) portrays a widow and her son hooking up with a soldier in the Soviet Union in the early '50s, but all is not what it seems. That's the straight-forward plot, but there's something else here: fatherlessness. That has been a common theme in many Russian movies ("Brother", "The Return"). I'm not totally sure why, but there are other things here. The soldier likes to think of Stalin as his own father, and even has a picture of the dictator tattooed on himself (you must realize that Stalin tried to make himself look like the father of the country).Maybe we can't determine what exactly this movie is trying to say, but it is still a great movie. Mind you, this isn't a movie for the easily disturbed.Oh, and the mother is kinda hot.

Wulfstan10 This film is a great example of excellent Russian drama. It is superbly and artfully done with excellent scenes, cinematography, acting, etc., yet it is unrelentingly harsh and gloomy. There is barely a spot of happiness or hope throughout, hammering the viewer with the harshness of a hard life in a troubled world. Things start out bad and stay that way through the end since the woman's choices only alter the details of her problems without ever improving her lot. This is, in my experience, very emblematic of a particular outlook on the world. It is a notion of a harsh world that is really beyond our control and that, despite our efforts and our choices, we are in fact powerless to improve. This is a common theme in Russia, a country whose land and people have made great achievements, yet at different times have sacrificed much without any real benefit in return and as a result suffered so much more than most westerners can even comprehend. The film presses that home with the usual Russian knack for artistic excellence, itself further highlighting the strange dichotomies of this land.In the end, this film leaves the viewer emotionally battered, but thoroughly satisfied at having just seen a grimly beautiful and outstanding film.

p12knight The director really made some interesting character choices. The main character, Tolja, is also a YUMMY, sexy, STUD!I highly recommend this film.Very, very good !!!