Engineer Pright's project
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Engineer Pright's project |
| Original title | Проект инженера Прайта |
| Country of production | Russia |
| Publishing year | 1918 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lev Vladimirovich Kuleschow |
The Project of the Engineer Pright ( Russian Проект инженера Прайта ) is a Russian silent film by the director Lev Kuleschow from 1918 .
action
The film takes place in an imaginary America. The title character named Pright ( Russian Прайт ) is a young inventor and was played by the director's brother. Pright plans to break the capitalist oil monopoly with peat as the fuel of the future. At the same time he falls in love with the daughter of the oil magnate, a modern and self-confident woman. Together the lovers fight against capitalism.
background
The project by the engineer Pright is Lev Kuleschow's first independent film, which was made in the Chanzhonkow studio in 1918 before the nationalization of Russian cinema:
“At the age of 19 Lew Kuleschow seized the chance of his life. The private cinema studio in which he worked as an outfitter ran out of directors after the revolution. While they were leaving abroad, Kuleschow used the capacities that had become free to direct his first film. With the 'Projekt des Ingenieurs Pright', which was shot in the summer of 1918, he wanted to do a lot differently than his predecessors. He left the studio, filmed in the middle of the city and outside in the great outdoors. "
meaning
The project of the engineer Pright is "the ' missing link ' between the pre-revolutionary Russian film and the Soviet montage cinema of the 1920s [...], besides the discovery of the montage as an artistic means of expression and meaning generating process, which was new for the Russian film also Kulešov's "natural actors", ie amateur actors, as well as shooting on original locations are trendsetting. "
The film, long considered lost, was first made available to a larger audience in the Hyperkino DVD edition produced in Berlin and Prague:
"It contains two versions of the film: the version without subtitles that has been preserved in the Russian State Film Archive Gosfil'mofond and the version reconstructed by Nikolaj Izvolov 2001-2007 in which the subtitles were added. The reconstructed version can be used in hyperkino mode, ie with The notes in the form of “footnotes”, as well as without them. In addition, two music versions are available, namely the soundtrack by Dmitrij Matov from 2004 and the musical accompaniment by Jiří Hradil from 2007. The DVD also contains the 1969 as bonus material Fifty-minute documentary film Ėffekt Kulešova , made by Semen Rajburt , which contains an extensive interview with the director combined with excerpts from his films and thus bears witness to the rediscovery of film culture of the 1920s during the thaw in the Soviet Union. It is a particular merit of the present DVD edition, this documentary worth seeing mentary film in which the aged film pioneer himself has his say that he has placed it in a suitable context of reception. "
Web links
- The project of the engineer Pright in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralf Schenk on the assembly master Lew Kuleschow and his directorial debut "The Project of the Engineer Pright": Intrigues and shootings . In: Berliner Zeitung . October 9, 2008 ( online ).
- ^ A b Eva Binder: Lew Kuleschow: The project of the engineer Pright. 1918. DVD edition . In: ed. from absolut MEDIEN 2008. With hyperkino commentary by Nikolai Izvolov and Natascha Drubek-Meyer. (Ed.): Eastern Europe . 5, 2012, pp. 120-122.