The purple sail

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Movie
German title The purple sail
Original title Алые паруса
(Alyje parussa)
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1961
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Alexander Ptushko
script Alexei Nagorny
Alexander Jurowski
production Mosfilm
music Igor Morozov
camera Gennady Zekawy
Viktor Jakuschew
cut J. Moronow
occupation
synchronization

The purple sail (original title: Russian Алые паруса , Alyje parussa ) is a Soviet fantasy film by Alexander Ptuschko from 1961. It was based on the story The purple sail by Alexander Grin .

action

When the seaman Longgreen, believed dead, returns to his small fishing village after many months, he finds the neighbor in his house. She has three-month-old daughter Longgreens in her arms, whom his wife Mary named Assol. Mary herself is dead. Shortly after the child was born there was a lack of food and no money in the house. Mary asked the landlord for money, but he demanded that she obey him. When she went to a nearby town in freezing weather to change her wedding ring for some money, she contracted pneumonia, from which she died after a short time. Longgreen takes the neighbor's story calmly and knows that in the future he will have to look after his child by himself.

Assol grows up to be a young girl. Longgreen now earns his living as a toy maker and makes wooden sailboats that he can sell on the market for little money. One day Assol is supposed to bring the boats to market. She lets one with a red sail drift in the stream and hurries after the boat that is floating away. It is finally fished out of the water by the old Egl who prophesies Assol that one day a prince will come with a real ship with red sails and take Assol as his wife. Assol now dreams of that prince and is laughed at by the village children. In a distant castle, on the other hand, the young Count Arthur Gray lives, who, to the chagrin of his parents, has nothing more than seafaring. The parents try in vain to suppress his affection for ships and pirate stories.

Years go by and Assol and Arthur have become young adults. Assol helps his father with his work, but business is bad. Arthur Gray breaks up with his father and becomes a seaman. He is capable and eager to learn and in no time rises to the captain of his own ship Secret . While going ashore, he finds Assol sleeping in the grass and falls in love with her. He puts his ring on her finger and disappears undetected. In the village he asks about her and learns that she is still waiting for the prince to pick her up on a red sailing ship, but also that some villagers consider her strange because of this. Arthur wants to make Assol's dream come true. He buys 2,000 meters of red canvas in town and returns to Assol on his ship, which is now carrying red sails. She already recognized on the ring that her prince was coming. The villagers also gather on the beach and watch as Arthur picks up Assol in his boat on the beach and brings him to the ship. There he reveals to her that he has always been looking for her and that he wants to marry her. Assol is happy, especially since her father will come with the couple too.

production

The purple sail was filmed in Koktebel (scenes in the fishing village), Baku , Pizunda (scenes in the forest) and on Yalta (among other things, scenes of buying sails). The film had its world premiere on June 7, 1961 in the Soviet Union and was shown in GDR cinemas the following year. On April 12, 1980 it ran for the first time on DFF 1 on television in the GDR and on April 3, 1994 on all-German television on ORB . In September 2009 the film was released on DVD by Icestorm as part of the series “The most beautiful fairy tale classics in Russian film history”.

It was the screen debut of Anastassija Wertinskaya, the daughter of the singer and actor Alexander Wertinsky , who was 15 years old at the time of shooting. The secret of the film was actually the training ship Alpha of the Rostov Naval School . As in the film, in reality over 2000 meters of red canvas was used. The plot is based on a story by Alexander Grin, whereby the modernity references of the story are missing in the film. It was the first film adaptation of the story. Other film adaptations include Assol (Soviet Union, TV, 1983), Nachové plachty (Czech Republic, TV, 2001) and Prawdiwaja istorija ob alych parussach (Ukraine, TV series, 2010).

synchronization

The dialogue of the DEFA dubbing was written by Harald Thiemann , Ilse Stobrawa took over the direction . The synchronization was carried out by the DEFA Studio for Synchronization, Atelier Leipzig.

role actor Voice actor
Assol Anastassija Wertinskaja
originally spoken by Nina Guljajewa 		Evelyn student
Arthur Gray Vasily Lanovoi Kurt Kachlicki
Long green Ivan Pereversev Günter Grabbert
Philip Sergei Martinson Alfred Bohl
Captain Hope Sergei Romodanov Hannsjosef Bolley
Letika Oleg Anofrijew Freimuth Götsch
father Pavel Massalsky Helmut Schreiber
Assol as a child Lena Cheremshanova Petra
Arthur Gray as a child Sascha Lupenko Juliane

criticism

The New York Times called The Crimson Sail a "Prince Charming story" and the All Movie Guide gave the film three out of five stars. The film service described the film as a “fairy tale film based on the novel by Alexander Grin”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The purple sail. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on December 26, 2017 .
  2. ↑ "prince charming tale" See movies.nytimes.com
  3. ↑ See Allmovie.com
  4. ↑ The purple sail. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used