>>>>Ah no, Dr Zhivago. While Omar does come close, the lady (Julie Christie, IIRC) is a total miss, as is the rest of the cast. They simply can't breathe Russian. So as far as Western approximations go, it's not that bad, but not much good either. Pretty much the only good one of the kind that I saw was the old "Karamazovs" with Yul Brynner (sp?), and that's only because of him. The others were so-so.
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>>>What did you think of Enemy at the Gates? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215750/
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>>I thought that was a cracker.
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>Is that good a bad?

Cracker is "very good indeed"

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>>Talking of duels, how about "The Duelists", based on J Conrad's "The Duel" - Harvey Keitel and Peter Fonda?
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>I'll check it out, never 'eard of it.

Set in the Napoleonic Wars, Keitels wrongly thinks Fonda has sleighted him so keeps a life-long grudge going, continuously calling him out for a duel.