The immortal Kashchai

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Movie
German title The immortal Kashchai
Original title Кащей Бессмертный
(Kaschtschai bessmertny)
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1945
length 64 minutes
Rod
Director Alexander Rou
script Vladimir Swiss
Alexander Rou
production Soyuzdetfilm , Alma-Ata
music Sergei Pototsky
camera Mikhail Kirillov
occupation

The immortal Kashchai (original title: Russian Кащей Бессмертный , Kashchai bessmertny ) is a Soviet fairy tale film by Alexander Rou from 1945. It is based on motifs of the Russian legendary figure Koschtschei .

action

The Russian warrior Nikita returns to his home village, which he finds destroyed. He learns from a magical man that the immortal Kashchai's hordes of horsemen have devastated the country and that they have kidnapped his future bride Marja. Nikita decides to make Kashchai pay for his actions. The magical little man gives him a handful of Russian soil and his magic fly agaric hat for his project , which would be very practical if the warrior were to find himself in great danger.

On his journey, the courageous warrior comes to a foreign land that was subjugated by Kashchai the Immortal. In a town there he gets into a fight with the local guards, in the course of which he arrives at a place where a court hearing is currently taking place. Bulat Balagur is said to be sentenced to death for attempting to steal the magic carpet that was used to enter Kashchai's realm to kill the tyrant. When Nikita threatens to be arrested, he puts on the magic hat, becomes invisible and frees Bulat Balagur. Together they get hold of the magic carpet with which they fly to the immortal.

At the end of the world, with the help of a trick and the magic hat, they invade Kashchai's fortress unnoticed, where they find Marja lying lifeless on an altar. When the immortal Kashchai arrives, the two companions hide. You observe how Kashchai puts a ring on Marja’s finger, which brings it back to life. In the following conversation, the Immortal offers Marja for the last time to become his wife. He reveals to her, since she is afraid of someone without a heart, that he does have a heart that he has hidden in the black apple that grows on the black tree that stands on the black rock. If a courageous warrior came too close to the tree, he would leaf in a single place and a blossom would spring from it, which would turn into an apple. Whoever cut this apple in two with their bare hands would find their heart there, but would freeze to stone. Marja nevertheless refuses to take him as husband, whereupon the immortal pulls the ring from her finger, which has the consequence that she falls back into a lifeless state. The heartless throws the ring into a waterfall, which as a result dries up briefly and reveals a secret passage through which the immortal disappears. Nikita now puts his ring on Marja’s finger, who wakes up again. They want to flee from the fortress, but notice that the invisible magic hat has been lost. When the two men pointed out Kashchai's secret passage, Marja pulls the ring off her finger again, throws it into the waterfall and falls again into eternal sleep. The two comrades in arms were able to escape and set about destroying Kashchai.

It comes to a dispute between Nikita and the immortal Kashchai. When the immortal conjures up his army by magic, the brave warrior pulls out the Russian soil that was given to him, throws it into the air and also makes an army appear. Meanwhile, Bulat Balagur climbs the black rock, plucks the apple, splits it and catches a white dove that emerges from it. Meanwhile, watched by the two armies, the mounted duel between Nikita and Kashchai is raging. The bold warrior has already beheaded the heartless twice, but new heads keep growing back, which means that the beneficiary can succeed in getting Nikita into trouble. Finally Bulat Balagur finds Kashchai's heart in the form of a snake in the plumage of the white dove. He lets the bird fly, but he smashes the snake with one throw on the ground, whereupon the victim turns to stone. At the same moment, Nikita also smashes Kashchai's body on earth, which is defeated for one last time and for all time.

The defeated troops then flee, the spell over Marja is broken and the petrified Bulat Balagur is transformed back again.

background

The Immortal Kashchai was produced in 1944 and premiered in the Soviet Union on May 27, 1945 . The film was released in German cinemas on October 3, 1945 - in the original Russian version. A German dubbing was never produced.

criticism

For the lexicon of international films, The Immortal Kashchai was an "adventurous fairytale film with a strong pedagogical (and patriotic) impetus."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the publication on kino-teatr.ru , accessed on December 29, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b The immortal Kashchai. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 29, 2016 .  .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used