Product Details

• Actors: Timothy Hutton, Nastassia Kinski, Valeria Golino, William Forsythe, Urbano Barberini
• Directors: Jerzy Skolimovski
• Writers: Jerzy Skolimowski
• Producers: Angelo Rizzoli
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: LIONSGATE
• DVD Release Date: January 6, 2012
• Run Time: 1 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000DZ3DZ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,329 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Torrents Of Spring" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Torrents Of Spring is an epic tale of love, passion and betrayal – the story of one man and two women... In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin (Academy Award® winner Timothy Hutton – Best Supporting Actor, Ordinary People, 1980; Sunshine State), is returning home after a long tour of Europe. During a stopover in Germany,he encounters the beautiful young Gemma (Valeria Golino – Frida) and falls in love with her. Maria Polozov (Nastassja Kinski – Diary Of A Sex Addict) is envious of the couple's pure love and seduces Dimitri. Dimitri is caught in a whirlwind of emotion as he is unable to choose between his innocent love for Gemma and his sudden passion for Maria.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seductively dreamlike - a time machine back 200 years., April 18, 2010

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Timothy B. Holt "Go into the western sea" (Santa Cruz and World Surfing Capital) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Torrents Of Spring (DVD)

No five star reviews? I looked at the price of the DVD and "Timothy Hutton" as a star warned me away. It looked like trash from the cover of the DVD. I stayed away for 6 years. Well, it is much like reading Tolstoy in that you get a sense that you are there but with all that a shooting location in some very old sections of Eastern European cities and countryside can provide in terms of mind blowing atmosphere. Because it is something like a time machine that displays its world in near real time, you have to have some delight in being brought into such a world as an observer (not just a view of a play or a movie). Like some aspects of "Somewhere in Time" this has a love for a past that cannot be realized in any better way. I have read just enough to know and to feel this is plausibly how it would be to live then and to fall under the spell. Movies of the past now toss aside so much of the feeling that you get from reading a novel of the past. Today's entertainment seems unrealistic to most if it does not have the same issues, pace, relationships. But this movie is looking to be a wormhole into the past, and I say Bravo. I fell into the timewarp and was pleased to find something that echoed in my mind like reading a Thomas Hardy novel would. OK. So back to your new fast paced Jane Austen a La LA stuff. Amazing, not one 5 star review. Now there is one.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Classic.Hutton is awesome in his character, September 22, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Torrents of Spring [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I watched this film back in the early 1990's and i must
say that i really liked the film. The movie is about a man,
i believe a russian who is played by hutton and he falls in
love with an italian woman, but hutton decides to have an affair
with a blonde woman which costs him his true love with the italian woman. This is a slow moving picture, and it is long,
but i recommend it because life is not like the movies.
Things go slow, and the ending is quite interesting...
Sometimes love is hard to find, and when it is found sometimes
for the wrong reasons people just let it slip away with sloppy
incidents that really are to negative. Hutton is fantastic
in this motion picture. i believe the author who wrote this
book is russian, great job! I recommend one buying"torrents of spring."

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Visual and audio beauty, in a sentimental dream of 19th century Europe, February 15, 2007

By 

Pork Chop (Lisbon, Portugal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Torrents Of Spring (DVD)

TORRENTS OF SPRING, unfortunately, has perhaps not been

marketed in the ideal manner, for the majority of the

public, because it suggests a narrowly focused film about

a passionate relationship between 2 nobles, the lady

played by Nastassja Kinski, and the man by Timothy Hutton.

In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. This

movie is not narrowly focused on a passion between a man

and a woman. It tells a story that entertains a lot more,

immensely more, from many its many other aspects, that

were crafted into the motion picture. And these other

aspects are what makes this film easily surpass the

commercial, cheap movies, too often manufactured these

days.

It will help, if the viewer can relate to a sentimental

story, enjoys the enormous "eye-candy" of the lifestyle of

nobles (at least as we would have us believe) in the 17th,

18th and 19th centuries in Europe. There's tremendous

filming of historical monuments, castles, the typically

stone-laid streets of cities in France, Portugal, Spain,

Germany, Italy. It really takes the viewer back in time,

in an incredible way, 300 years. In this way, this picture

has an outstanding dream-like quality, for the viewer,

surreal, as well, at times. There are many outstanding,

luxurious, opulent clothes, filming locations (e.g. the

theater, where the two assist a piece) that are

interesting in themselves to those who are not habituals

of those environments. The horse and carriage is the means

of transportation, something no longer seen since 100

years now, in modern civilization.

Next, if the visual beauty of this film is not enough to

satisfy the viewer, recurring over 90 mins (from the

elements previously mentioned), there are the audio

aspects to consider. The music is varied in styles, but

extremely serious, convincing, historical and credible in

its choices, and in the way that it is used in the

picture, such as in the case of the gypsy wedding, the

Slavic folk dances, the chamber pieces that are more

Germanic in nature, etc.

Perhaps the merit of the actors in this movie, is their

moderation of dialogue, and their subtlety. Clearly, the

director understood this movie, was not intellectual in

nature, not at all. It was sentimental, visual, auditive.

Excess talk would distract, and be redundant to the

message conveyed to the spectator, which is to bring forth

a "dream" of times gone by, a utopia perhaps, of what

constituted the life of nobility and / or monarchy.

Kudos to Nastassja Kinski, who not only is effective in

her subtle manner of acting, but she brings forth, to the

screen, the pleasure, a certain thrill of "taking part"

in those scenes, as far as I could tell.