It started in Moscow
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | It started in Moscow |
| Original title | Never Let Me Go |
| Country of production | UK , USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Delmer Daves |
| script |
Ronald Millar , George Froeschel |
| production | Clarence Brown |
| music | Hans May |
| camera | Robert Krasker |
| cut | Frank Clarke |
| occupation | |
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It began in Moscow (original title: Never Let Me Go ) is an American - British film drama with Clark Gable and Gene Tierney from 1953. The novel Come the Dawn by Andrew Garve served as a literary model .
action
After the Second World War , the American newspaper reporter Philip Sutherland , who worked in Moscow , attended a Swan Lake performance by the Bolshoi Ballet . To his surprise, the ballerina Marya Lamarkina, whom he has been courting for a long time, finally wants to marry him and move with him to San Francisco . Despite the US Ambassador's warning that Marya would have difficulties getting an exit visa, the wedding ceremony took place. During their honeymoon in Tallinn , they meet the Englishman Christopher Denny, who is married to Marya's friend Swetlana. Christopher and Swetlana want to live in Cornwall as soon as Swetlana gets her visa. However, when Christopher is arrested by Soviet security guards for unauthorized photography and then expelled from the Soviet Union, the pregnant Svetlana remains behind - she was not granted a visa.
Philip and Marya now take care of Swetlana and their son, who later dies of a fever. As the Cold War looms, Philip also has to leave the country. Marya is supposed to accompany him, but is arrested at the airport when Philip is already on board the plane bound for America. He therefore has to fly without her and tries in vain to return to Moscow. He finally takes a job in London , where Christopher hands him smuggled letters from Marya. Together with the seaman Joe Brooks, the two men try to sail on a Dutch boat through the Baltic Sea to Tallinn, where the Bolshoi Ballet is currently performing. Steve Quillan, Philip's friend and colleague, manages to get in touch with Marya and Swetlana and inform them about their husbands' plan.
When Philip, Christopher and Joe finally reach the Tallinn coast, only Swetlana swims towards their dinghy. Marya is still in the theater for a special performance. Philip swims ashore and steals a medic's uniform there. Dressed in these he gets into the theater undisturbed and sits down in the audience while Marya dances to Swan Lake . When she bows after the performance, Marya suddenly passes out. Philip is then brought backstage as a supposed paramedic and then leaves the theater with her. As they prepare to drive away in a car, Philip is recognized by another dancer, whereupon Soviet police officers pursue the fugitive couple. However, Philip and Marya are faster than their pursuers and reach a pier. They swim to Joe's dinghy, where they both hug happily and look forward to a future together in the United States.
background
The interior shots were filmed in MGM's British studios in Borehamwood , where Alfred Junge was the art director responsible for the film construction. The exterior shots were made in the county of Cornwall - in the towns of Mevagissey and Newquay as well as in the port of Mullion, which can be seen in the film as the port of Tallinn .
It started in Moscow and premiered in London on March 18, 1953 . In Germany, the film was first shown in cinemas on October 12, 1956.
Reviews
According to the lexicon of international films , It began in Moscow "[a] must-have and adventurous entertainment against an ideological background". Prisma described the film as an “exciting adventure melodrama”, in which, however, “less political background than personal blows of fate” played a role. The film critic Leonard Maltin attested Clark Gable an "unconvincing, but casual performance".
German version
The German dubbed version was created in 1956 by the MGM synchronization studio in Berlin.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Philip Sutherland | Clark Gable | Siegfried Schürenberg |
| Marya Lamarkina | Gene Tierney | Agi Prandhoff |
| Joe Brooks | Bernard Miles | Walter Gross |
| Christopher Wellington St. John Denny | Richard Haydn | Wolfgang Kieling |
| Steve Quillan | Kenneth More | Klaus Schwarzkopf |
| Commissioner | Karel Štěpánek | Hans Wiegner |
Web links
- It started in Moscow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Never Let Me Go at Turner Classic Movies (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b It started in Moscow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 5, 2018 .
- ↑ It started in Moscow. In: prisma.de . Retrieved December 5, 2018 .
- ↑ "Unconvincing yet smooth account of Gable." Leonard Maltin , Never Let Me Go. In: Turner Classic Movies . Accessed December 5, 2018 .
- ↑ cf. synchrondatenbank.de
- ↑ It started in Moscow. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on September 3, 2017 .