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A great film, a great scenario, great actors. Moreover, the film approaches very directly and very faithfully the topic of the Armenian genocide committed by the Turks, and not admitted by the Turkish state so far. Beyond the tragic history of the characters involved, I think the film manages to carry along the hope the animated the Armenian survivors i.e. being good is most important, no matter how challenging the circumstances may be. The love story woven in the macro-historical narrative only shows and tells the story of so many people who drowned in history without having told their story. If you want a truly great film, and also learn about the denied history of the Armenian genocide hidden for a century, watch this film, but be prepared to cry.

First of all, the film is too long, it does mot seem edited. Then the topic is the same old Communist story. The characters are simply nevrotic, being the exponents of a nevrotic society. The continuous noise in the background makes Sirranevada another Romanuan film with serious sound problems. The characters are 100%represemtative fir Bucharest, they speak as if they barked all the time, nobody smiles, there is mo moment of silence. Consewuently the viewer will be left with a terrible headache at the end, withe the feeling of witnessing an unfinished, unedited film, with a title that does not have anything to do with the narrative. A total waste of time, an awful piece of cinema with no meaning.

It has been a long time since I last saw a more pretentious, artificial, unnatural film as this one. The acting is artificial, the plot is non- existent, the theme unnatural. The same unnatural French issues, never saying anything, cryptic and lacking any kind of depth. Absolutely awful and boring, boring in the deepest sense - why would anyone make a film about nothing to say nothing, to transmit nothing, to show nothing?!

An epic, great film, one of the masterpieces of cinema of all times. The acting is absolutely fantastic, the actors actually take a grip of the viewer and one cannot but be bewitched by them. The setting in Anatolia and shots are great, contrasting greatly with Western cinema so full of clichés and stereotypes about relationships. Each scene is like a painting, a painting which breathes of life, simplicity, and complexity at the same time. The story is to be understood on multiple levels, yet there are great questions to be answered probably only after the film has finished, it contains probably some of the great themes of humanity, all surrounded by the great enigma we call 'life'. A great film for all times.

Unfortunately, the acting is absolutely catastrophic, forced and unbearable to watch. Because of that, the watcher gets nothing of the Russian atmosphere in Tolstoy's novel. Utterly disappointing.

The actors remain on the very surface of their characters which are far from the grace and personality in the novel or in the Russian films, it just remains a very superficial approach.

The theatricality is so cheap one can watch the first episode with difficulty, the acting rather suits Shakespeare than any Russian piece of literature. The actors must have not understood their roles, and definitely the director has a misconception on what this series should have been like. It is unbelievable that BBC could have made such a terrible series taking into account its brilliant series int he past.

It is definitely a failure and a huge disappointment.

I had wanted to watch this for a long time, and was prompted by the Oscar, but it turned out to be a total disappointment. The shootings were terrible -half the movie you see the grey sky and the top of the heads of the characters, feeling like wanting to pull down the screen - I think that was a useless and meaningless way of filming. Besides, even if the story could have been interesting, it turned out to be partially easy to guess. As compared to other movies that ran into the competition for thee Oscar for a foreign movie, this is far below any expectations for a true lover of any cinema, especially European. On the other hand it's a pity, as the two female characters play well.