The Thief (1997)

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Movie
German title The thief
Original title Bop (Wor) /
Le voleur et l'enfant
Country of production Russia , France
original language Russian
Publishing year 1997
length 96 minutes
Rod
Director Pavel Chukhrai
script Pavel Chukhrai
production Igor Tolstunov
music Vladimir Dashkevich
camera Vladimir Klimov
cut Marina Dobryanskaya , Natalja Kutscherenko
occupation

The Thief (Russian original title Вор , Wor , French title Le voleur et l'enfant ) is a Russian - French film drama released in 1997 , the screenplay of which is by Pavel Tschuchrai , who also directed. The film is about a young woman named Katya ( Yekaterina Rednikowa ) and her son Sanya ( Mikhail Filipchuk ) who meet a Soviet officer named Tolyan ( Vladimir Mashkov ) in 1946 . Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who later turns out to be a criminal. In the meantime, however, he has become a father substitute for Sanya.

The film received an Oscar nomination in the “Best Foreign Language Film” category and won the Nika Film Award in the “Best Pictures and Best Shots” category. He also won the International Youth Jury Award, won the Italian Senate Presidential Medal in gold, and won the UNICEF Award at the 1997 Venice Film Festival .

action

Katya, a poor and desperate widow, and her underage son, Sanya, simply tried to survive in the post-war Soviet Union from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. In one go, the two meet the attractive officer Tolyan, who seduces Katya. From then on, the young woman lived with him, with Tolyan always pretending to be her husband and playing the role of father for her son Sanya. Sanya only slowly gains confidence in Tolyan, but gradually closes him deeply into his heart. Katya also distrusts the busy man at first, as he often appears very authoritarian and his presence restricts her more than once in everyday life.

His good looks and his apparent generosity, as well as his status as a war veteran, always make Tolyan lucrative professional positions, Katya believes. She does not know that he keeps the family afloat by making acquaintances that he is able to make quickly because of his nature, getting drunk and then robbing them or giving them cinema or circus tickets to those in good faith to show them during their absence To empty the apartment. Katya and Sanya are noticing that Tolyan also has other, hard sides that make life together more and more difficult. The situation becomes tragic for the three of them when it turns out that Tolyan has basically nothing to do with Sanya's love for him. But mother and son turn a blind eye to this because they do not want to separate from Tolyan. A tragedy takes its course, culminating with Tolyan's arrest.

A few years have passed when Sanya meets the surrogate father he once loved, who has little to do with the man he once admired. A pitiful figure faces him.

production

It is a production by Mosfilm Studios in collaboration with Productions Le Pont and Roissy Film. The soundtrack includes the title La Paloma , written by Sebastián de Yradier .

reception

publication

The film was presented on August 31, 1997 at the Venice Film Festival . In Russia it was released on October 13, 1997. In 1998 it was published in the following countries: Spain, Australia, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Hungary, Sweden, Greece (at the Athens Film Festival), Iceland, Mexico (Muestra International de Cine) and in France, there under the title Le voleur et l'enfant . In 1999 it started in New Zealand, Turkey, Argentina (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema), Norway, Argentina in general, Denmark and Belgium. It was released in Japan (Tokyo) in October 2000. He was also seen in Brazil, Spain, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Romania. The international title is: The Thief .

In Germany, the film was first seen on March 11, 1999 under the title The Thief .

criticism

Kino.de wrote: “Oscar-nominated, very emotional and gripping drama about people who made their way through Cold War Russia. [...] What began as a rogue comedy ends as a bitter tragedy. ”Through the eyes of a child, the viewer experiences“ the end of the Stalin era and the turmoil and disorientation of a country after the dictatorship ”, whereby“ parallels to the present ”would emerge .

Film.at spoke of a “haunting [m] portrait of an extraordinary youth in Russia” and continued: “The Russian Pavel Tschuchrai staged a father-son relationship from the point of view of little Sanya in a realistic and harsh manner. Tschuchrai was nominated for an Oscar in 1998 for this masterly post-war drama. "

Awards

Won

  • Soswesdije 1997:
  • Venice International Film Festival 1997:
    • International Youth Jury Prize - Pawel Tschuchrai
    • Italian Senate Presidential Medal in Gold - Pawel Chuchrai
    • UNICEF Award - Pawel Tschuchrai
  • Open CIS and Baltic Film Festival 1997:
    • Best actor - Vladimir Mashkov
    • Best director - Pavel Chukhrai
    • Prize of the film distribution jury - Pawel Tschuchrai
  • Nika 1998:
  • Young Artist Award 1998:
    • Best young actor in a foreign language film - Mikhail Filipchuk

Nominated

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Thief sS kino.de (with 13 film images). Retrieved March 18, 2018.
  2. ↑ The Thief sS film.at. Retrieved March 18, 2018.