The fight for the golden gate

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Movie
German title The fight for the golden gate
Original title Илья Муромец
(Ilja Muromets)
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1956
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Alexander Ptushko
script Mikhail Kochnev
production Mosfilm
music Igor Morozov
camera July Kun
Fyodor Provorov
occupation
synchronization

The fight for the golden gate (alternative title: Ilya Muromets ; original title: Russian Илья Муромец , Ilya Muromets ) is a Soviet fairy tale film by Alexander Ptushko from 1956. It was based on motifs from Russian folk tales.

action

The Kievan Rus in the 12th century: The old warrior Svyatogor dies and hands over his triple-hardened sword to a group of wandering singers and healers. You should bring it to a worthy successor. Svyatogor and his horse die and turn to stone. Meanwhile , the principality of Kiev suffers from the raids of the Tugars under their ruler Kalin Khan. One day they also visit the village of Karachayevo owned by farmer Ilya Muromets and kidnap his wife Vasilisa. Ilya Muromets can't do anything about it because he has had paralyzed arms and legs since childhood. The hikers reach his devastated village and give Ilya Muromets a drink of the juice of the ragweed. Suddenly he's healed. With the sword of Svyatogor he sets off to the royal palace in Kiev to offer his services to Prince Vladimir. On his journey he takes the robber Solowei, who can create a storm with his whistle, captured.

At the Fürstenhof it is initially not taken seriously. The seedy Mishatichka, who was spared by Kalin Khan and is now at his service as a mole at the royal court, pretends to have defeated the robber Solowei. Ilya Muromets exposes him as a liar and makes him an enemy. A messenger from the Khan appears and announces that not only Kalin Khan is on his way to Kiev, but also wants to extort interest from the city for the next twelve years in advance. Ilya Muromets kills the messenger. He goes into the field against the Tugars and is able to free his wife Wassilissa. With her he initially withdraws into private life. It looks like a tablecloth for him. When he says goodbye to her with the shawl, he wishes that she would give life to a boy. He is said to be called Sokolnitschek and to receive a ring that Ilya Muromets had received from the prince in thanks.

Prince Vladimir has meanwhile sent a heavily laden caravan on its way, the route of which, however, is betrayed to Kalin Khan by Mishatichka. He attacks the ships and takes Vasilissa who is traveling on them prisoner again. Ilya Muromets was not with the ships and is therefore held responsible by the prince for the loss of the goods. Through Mishatichka's whispers, the prince also believes that Ilya Muromets wants to ascend his throne and has him thrown into prison. His best warriors and Ilya's friends, Dobrynja Nikititsch and Aljoscha Popowitsch , then refuse to obey him. Vasilissa gives birth to her son Sokolnitschek in captivity, who wears his father's ring from childhood. However, at the age of two, Sokolnitschek was taken away from his mother by Kalin Khan and grew up with him instead. Believing the Khan to be his father, he eventually becomes the Tugar's best warrior in adulthood.

Kalin Khan now draws against Kiev again. The city is supposed to provide an enormous amount of gold in three days, otherwise it will be conquered by the Tugars. Only now does Prince Vladimir reflect on Ilya Muromets, who is locked in the dungeon. Mishatichka was supposed to provide him with food during the time of his imprisonment, but calculated that she did not do so. He thinks Ilya Muromets starved to death, but the one with his wife's tablecloth survived the years. The prince realizes that Mishatichka is wrong and lets him tarry. Ilya Muromets, in turn, now enters the fight against Kalin Khan and uses a trick to make him believe that Kiev has paid him the desired sum. Still, the Khan is not satisfied. He lets his best lone fighter compete against Ilya Muromets - his own son Sokolnitschek. Ilja Muromez recognizes from the ring that he has his own son in front of him and explains his origins to him. Sokolnitschek takes the side of the Kievans. He secretly frees his mother Vasilissa from prison. The prince's warriors, in turn, are successful against the Khan's Tugars. He finally lets go of his fire dragon “Gorynitsch” on Kiev, who is defeated by Ilya Muromez and Sokolnitschek, among others. The Khan, in turn, is brought to Kiev as a prisoner, where the people are supposed to judge him.

Prince Vladimir wants to make the farmer Ilya Muromets a prince and boyar for his services , but he refuses the honor. Instead, it is intended to benefit his son, who will serve the prince in the future.

production

The Battle for the Golden Gate was the first Soviet film to be made in Cinemascope . The film had its Soviet cinema premiere on September 16, 1956. In the GDR it ran under the distribution title Ilja Muromez on February 6, 1959 in the cinemas and was first seen on February 19, 1960 on DFF 1 on television. On March 11, 1960, the film came under the distribution title The Battle for the Golden Gate in German cinemas. Icestorm released the film in re-dubbing in December 2005 as part of the series The most beautiful fairy tale classics in Russian film history on DVD, the first dubbing was released by EuroVideo.

synchronization

Wito Eichel wrote the dialogue for the first DEFA dubbing , and Helmut Brandis directed it ; Werner Klünder (dialogue) and Irene Mahlich (director) were responsible for the DEFA re-synchronization .

role actor Voice actor 1958 Voice actor 1980
Ilya Muromets Boris Andreyev Maximilian Larsen Horst lamp
Prince Vladimir Andrei Abrikosov Theo Mack Otto Mellies
Lady Abraxia Natalia Medvedeva Renate Rennhack
Mishatychka Sergei Martinson Heinz Scholz Karl-Maria Steffens
Vasilissa Ninel Myshkova Christa Gottschalk Roswitha Hirsch
Sokolnitschek Alexander Schworin Rainer (Reinhard) Brandt Udo Schenk
Kassyan Vladimir Solovyov Werner Kamenik
Kalin Khan Shukur Burchanov Siegfried Kilian Erik S. Klein

criticism

For the film service , The Battle for the Golden Gate was an “eye-catching film based on a Russian heroic legend; a naive mixture of fairy tales and monster shows. "

reception

The film was picked up in 1994 in an episode of the US television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 . In this series, films that were particularly badly regarded were shown and commented on.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Christine Engel , Eva Binder (ed.): History of Soviet and Russian films . Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, p. 113.
  2. The battle for the golden gate. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. Mystery Science Theater 3000: Season 7, Episode 17 The Sword and the Dragon. Internet Movie Database , accessed November 10, 2015 .