The Cricket (1955)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A Cricket |
| Original title | Попрыгунья |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Samson Samsonov |
| script | Samson Samsonov |
| production | Mosfilm |
| music | Nikolai Kryukov |
| camera |
Vladimir Monakhov Fyodor Dobronrawov |
| cut | Esfir Tobak |
| occupation | |
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The Cricket is a Soviet melodrama by Samson Samsonow from 1955. It is based on the novella Flattergeist by Anton Chekhov .
action
St. Petersburg around 1900: The superficial Olga Ivanovna regularly surrounds herself in her apartment with painters, musicians and singers, of whom she likes to be celebrated as a muse. Her husband Dymow is a doctor, prepares his dissertation and stays in the background at the meetings. His wife usually ignores him in societies and only lets him appear when the guests are to be invited to dinner. Dymow endures Olga's moods stoically - he knows nothing about art, but believes that things that others would spend a fortune on cannot be “worthless”.
One day, Olga welcomes the aspiring painter Ryabovsky as a new guest in her circle. He falls in love with her, and when she accompanies the painter on a trip to the Volga, he confesses to her that he desires her. She becomes his mistress and they stay together for several months, but soon fall out and Olga returns to Dymow. He welcomes her with open arms and tells her about his dissertation project. Initially interested, Olga falls asleep a short time later while Dymow is speaking. Soon Olga falls back into old patterns, gives company and optionally presents her painting or singing talent in front of the guests. When Dymow tells her that she has successfully completed her doctorate, she doesn't even pretend to be interested.
While Olga soon struggles with self-doubt because Ryabowski drops her and calls her an amateur artist who should be much more likely to become a singer, Dymow treats a boy who has diphtheria . He is infected with him and the doctor and friend Korostelev and a specialist who have been summoned soon realize that Dymow cannot be cured. Only through the actions of colleagues and friends Dymows recognizes Olga that her husband in his field as a luminary was and his loss is a bitter loss for science. She rushes to his sick bed and implores that both of them will have a long time together, but Dymow has already passed away. Korosteljow sums up that Dymow was only there for others and that nobody took care of him and his concerns; Dymow was too good. When the housekeeper asked what should happen next, Korostelev replied that the usual would happen - the housekeepers wash the corpses and take care of the rest.
production
The cricket was the directorial debut of Samson Samsonow. The film was released on June 10, 1955 in the cinemas of the Soviet Union and on June 15, 1956 in the cinemas of the GDR. The film had its television premiere in the GDR on August 3, 1956 on DFF 1 . Icestorm released the film on DVD in December 2005 as part of the Russian Classics series .
synchronization
The dialogue of the DEFA dubbing was written by Wolfgang Krüger, the direction was taken over by Albert Benohr .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Dymow | Sergei Bondarchuk | Fred Mahr |
| Olga Ivanovna | Lyudmila Tselikovskaya | Maria Rouvel |
| Ryabovsky | Vladimir Druzhnikov | Gottfried Herrmann |
| Korostelyov | Yevgeny Teterin | Gerhard Bienert |
criticism
The film service described Die Grille as a “melodramatic…, brilliantly colored…, but somewhat lengthy… film adaptation. […] An artistically convincing film in all respects, the focus of which is the loss of reality of a woman who has withdrawn completely into her dazzling dream world. "
Awards
At the Venice International Film Festival , Die Grille was awarded the Silver Lion and the Leone d'Argento - Gran premio speciale della giuria in 1955. Lyudmila Zjelikowskaja was awarded a Jussi for Best Foreign Actress in 1956 . The Grille was also nominated for a BAFTA for Best Film in 1957 , but could not prevail against Gervaise by René Clément .
Web links
- The Grille at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Cricket. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See imdb.com