The miracle horse
| Movie | |
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| German title | The miracle horse |
| Original title | Конёк-горбунок (Konjok-gorbunok) |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1941 |
| length | 76 minutes |
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| Director | Alexander Rou |
| script | Vladimir Swiss |
| production | Soyuzdetfilm |
| music | Leonid Polowinkin |
| camera | Z. Antipov, Bentsion Monastyrsky |
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The Wonder Horse (original title: Russian Конёк-горбунок , Konjok-gorbunok ) is a Soviet fairy tale film by Alexander Rou from 1941.
action
A father sends his three sons Danila, Gavrila and Ivanushka to tend their fields. Suddenly a white horse appears who, after Ivanushka mounts him, begins to speak and promises him three horses. After a wild ride through the field, the white horse throws it off and disappears. The boy retains a strange feather from the event, which comes from the plumage of the firebird .
The next morning Danila and Gavrila watch their brother leave the stable and lock it up. They sneak in secretly, see two beautiful horses in it and steal them immediately. When Ivan notices the theft, he is shocked, the remaining third horse, small and inconspicuous and ignored by the brothers, but encourages him and takes him on the chase.
Meanwhile there is a fair in town . The tsar sees the stolen horses here and wants to buy them from the brothers. Ivan joins them, reveals himself to be the real owner and sells the animals, but leaves the gold to Danila and Gawrila. The sold horses wriggle away from Tschichir, the tsar's stable master , and pass through, Ivan can catch them again. For this purpose, Tschichir's office is transferred to him.
The former stable master, driven by jealousy, notices that Ivan has a firebird's feather and reveals it to the tsar. He wants to take possession of the wondrous animal and sends Iwan out. After he was able to flee from a band of robbers thanks to the horse, they reached the sea, where a huge whale devoured Ivan and with him several boats . The boy falls under the power of the sea tsar, but is able to free himself and also causes the whale to spit out the boats again. On one of them he sees the beautiful Sarja-Sarjaniza and takes her to the court. The tsar wants to marry the beautiful woman, but she initially refuses to marry the monarch. Finally, she agrees on the condition that the tsar should bathe in boiling hot milk in the castle courtyard in order to become young again. He forces Ivan to take the sample first. The miracle horse steps in again and lets him step out of the kettle as a beautiful young man in a noble robe. The Tsar now jumps in himself and is killed in the process. The servants and soldiers present diverge and the wonder horse chases the former stable master away. The gates of the palace are opened and the whole people enjoy the treasures.
In the end Ivanuschka and Sarja get married, the horse takes pride of place at the wedding table.
Publications
The wonder horse celebrated its premiere in the Soviet Union on July 31, 1941, and it was also shown for the first time in Germany on August 12, 1947. The film was released on DVD in Russia on December 2, 2004.
background
The wonder horse was filmed in Yalta . Rou delivers his fourth directorial work as well as his first and until May 8 (1952) only color film. The work, like the Soviet cartoons made in 1947 and 1975 , The Humpbacked Horse (original title: Конёк-горбунок Konjok-gorbunok) is based on the art fairy tale of the same name by Pyotr Yershov . In contrast to Rou's later films, which are a combination of literary models and individual ideas, here, as in The Beautiful Wassilissa , he still adhered closely to the original story. However, the spelling of the Russian film title Конек-горбунок differs from the book title (to replace Ё / ё with Е / е, see explanations in the article on the letter Ё ). The insertion of subtitles , which are more typical for silent films, is also striking .
Leading actress Marina Kovalyova was still a student at the time the film was made and lived in Moscow. At the same time as the shooting, she continued her classes in Yalta, where she also graduated, although the shooting had already ended. The permanent relocation of residence to the coastal town planned by her and her mother, the well-known singer Olga Wassiljewna Kowaljowa, failed when the German-Soviet war broke out .
Valentina Ivanovna Lebedewa, the wife of Pyotr Aleinikov , and her son Taras can be seen as extras .
Tsar actor Benjamin Gut was actually an Estrada artist and NA Urusowa theater actress, the latter had her only film appearance in Das Wunderpferdchen . Good could also be seen in Alexander Ptuschko's Das goldene Schlüsselchen (1939), but without being mentioned in the credits . For Georgi Milljar and Lev Potjomkin , on the other hand, it was already their third appearance in a film Rous, which was followed by numerous. Even Mikhail Trojanowski , who here plays his first role in a fairytale, should the night before Christmas to work with this again. Georgi Milljar also worked as a voice actor with the Czar in the animated film version of the 1947th
As a performer of Danila , Alexander Zhukov is also mentioned in places .
Web links
- The Wunderpferdchen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The miracle horse on kino-teatr.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Article about Marina Kowaljowa in Московская правда-дайджест No. 3/2016 on proekt-wms.narod.ru (Russian), accessed on June 18, 2020
- ↑ Filmography Alexander Rous on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on November 29, 2019
- ↑ The Wunderpferdchen in the Internet Movie Database (English) , accessed on November 29, 2019
- ↑ Pyotr Aleinikov's biography on stuki-druki.com (Russian), accessed on June 25, 2020
- ↑ Pyotr Aleinikov's biography on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on June 25, 2020
- ↑ Benjamin Guts biography on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on November 29, 2019
- ↑ N. Urusova's biography at kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on November 29, 2019
- ↑ N. Urusova's filmography on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on November 29, 2019
- ↑ Benjamin Guts filmography on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on November 29, 2019
- ↑ Georgi Milljar's filmography on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on November 29, 2019
- ↑ Lev Potjomkin's filmography on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on November 29, 2019
- ↑ Michail Trojanowski's filmography on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on November 29, 2019
- ↑ The Humpbacked Horse (1947) in the Internet Movie Database (English) , accessed on June 27, 2020
- ↑ Zhukov's biography at a-tremasov.ru (Russian), accessed on May 11, 2020
- ↑ Zhukov's profile at kinopoisk.ru (Russian), accessed on May 11, 2020