The stolen happiness
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The stolen happiness |
| Original title | Сампо Sampo |
| Country of production |
Soviet Union Finland |
| original language |
Russian Finnish |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alexander Ptushko |
| script |
Viktor Witkowitsch Grigori Jagdfeld |
| production |
Mosfilm Suomi-Filmi |
| music | Igor Morozov |
| camera |
Gennady Zjekawy Viktor Jakuschew |
| cut | I. Rostovtsev |
| occupation | |
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The stolen happiness (original title: russisch Сампо , Sampo ) is a Soviet - Finnish fairy tale film by Alexander Ptuschko from 1959.
action
Lumberjack Lemminkäinen meets beautiful Annikki, sister of the immortal blacksmith Ilmarinen . He is supposed to forge the magic mill Sampo for the residents of Kalevala , which can not only give flour and salt, but also gold. For the forging of Sampo, however, Ilmarinen needs the sky fire, which was once stolen by the evil witch Louhi , who lives in the kingdom of Pohjola . Louhi's magicians have been trying to create the Sampo Mill for some time, but they realize that only Ilmarinen can forge it. Louhi kidnaps Annikki to lure Ilmarinen to him. Lemminkäinen and Ilmarinen seek advice from the wise Väinämöinen , who instructs them to hew a boat from a tree that will take them to Pohjola.
In Pohjola they are received by Louhi. She agrees to release Annikki if both men ever do a job for her. Lemminkäinen is supposed to plow her snake field and manages to get Ilmarinen forging a horse for him. Before Annikki is released, however, Ilmarinen Louhi is supposed to forge the Sampo mill. Since the life of his sister is more important to him, Ilmarinen has a swan feather, sheep's wool and grains of barley brought to him and uses these means to create the Sampo mill. Louhi also releases the sky fire and a little later the mill is ready forged. Since it works, Ilmarinen, Lemminkäinen and Annikki are allowed to return to Kalevala. However, Lemminkäinen knows that the people of Kalevala desperately need the magic mill and returns to Pohjola alone to steal the mill from Louhi. Since the mill can only be approached unarmed, otherwise it will lose its power, Louhi has an easy job: she kills Lemminkäinen with a snakebite and throws the lifeless body into the sea. Lemminkäinen's mother suspects the death of her son, asks Birke, Weg und Sonne to point out where she can find her son, and is guided by the sun. The woman lets go of the sea and Louhi states that Lemminkäinen's body is on the seabed. At the request of the mother, the sea brings the young man to the surface and the mother carries her lifeless son back through the sea to Kalevala. Here she can bring Lemminkäinen back to life with the help of the birch, the path and the sun.
Lemminkäinen is ashamed to go back to the village without the Sampo mill and goes back to Pohjola. In Louhi's realm, he frees the mist that confuses Louhi's wizard, but destroys the power of the mill when he approaches it with his sword. Lemminkäinen can only take a fragment of Sampo before he sails back to Kalevala on his ship. Louhi, in turn, releases the winds she has caught, which capsize Lemminkäinen's boat. He is once again considered dead, but drifts onto Kalevala Beach. He gives the fragment of Sampo contrite to Väinämöinen, who suspects that it will one day be useful to Kalevala.
The wedding of Lemminkäinen and Annikki takes place. Louhi doesn't want to give in and steals the sun in the evening. It also orders the winds to cover Kalevala with snow. The swans of Kalevala die in ice and snow, and Annikki and the people of Kalevala sink into mourning. Ilmarinen tries to forge a new sun, but Väinämöinen knows that it is not possible. He wants to beat Louhi with her own resources. From the jewelry of the women of Kalevala and the wood of thousand-year-old oaks, he has numerous kanteles built whose music is supposed to enchant Louhi and her magicians. The men finally set off for Pohjola, where the part of the Sampo thrown into the sky in the form of polar lights illuminates their way. In Pohjola, the music of the Kantelen lets Louhi's magicians sleep. Even the unleashed north wind Louhi cannot harm the men of Kalevala. Louhi eventually turns to stone and is slain by Lemminkäinen. It is also he who releases the trapped sun. The men return to Kalevala and are greeted with joy by their wives.
production
The stolen happiness is based on motifs from the Karelo-Finnish epic Kalevala . The film mixes different chants from the epic. The film was shot on Yalta , on the Koli , in Lieksa and on Seurasaari in Helsinki . Studio recordings took place in the Mosfilm studios.
The stolen happiness had its premiere on August 24, 1959 in Moscow and opened on October 16, 1959 in Helsinki. The film was first shown in GDR cinemas on January 8, 1960, and on April 23, 1962, it was shown for the first time on GDR television on DFF 1 .
In the USA the film was shown under the title The Day the Earth Froze in a version shortened to around 67 minutes and radically cut, which emphasizes or constructs the gruesome and sensational aspects of the film. The film was heralded as “The most chilling terror ever experienced” and advertised with the tagline “Thousands against an ominous diabolical force from another world!” (“Thousands against an ominous Power from another world! "). In addition, instead of the original cast, invented American names were mentioned on the cinema posters.
synchronization
The dialogue of DEFA Synchronization wrote Wito Eichel , the director took over Helmut Brandis .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Väinämöinen | Urho Somersalmi | Theo Mack |
| Louhi | Anna Orotschko | Anneliese Reppel |
| Ilmarinen | Ivan Voronov | Gerd Ehlers |
| Lemminkäinen | Andris Ošiņš | Hartmut Reck |
| Lemminkäinen's mother | Ada Woizik | Ruth Kommerell |
| Annikki | Eeve Kivi | Ruth Maria Kemper |
| wizard | Georgi Milljar | Johannes Maus |
| magician | Mikhail Trojanowski | Ulrich Folkmar |
criticism
The film service called Das stolen Glück a “symbolic heroic epic for children, interesting in terms of content, but insignificant artistically”.
Web links
- The Day the Earth Froze in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The stolen happiness in the online film database
- The stolen happiness on kino-teatr.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sampo / Esitystiedot. Elonet (Finnish).
- ↑ See film poster on cinematerial.com.
- ↑ The stolen happiness. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .