The Karamazov Brothers (1969)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Karamazov brothers |
| Original title | Братья Карамазовы |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 216 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Ivan Pyrjew Mikhail Ulyanov Part 3 Kirill Lavrov Part 3 |
| script | Ivan Pyrev |
| production | Mosfilm |
| music | Isaac Black |
| camera | Sergei Vronsky |
| cut | W. Jankowski |
| occupation | |
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The Brothers Karamazov is a three-part Soviet film adaptation by Ivan Pyrjew from 1969. It is based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky .
action
The Karamazov family gathered at the venerable Starez Sossima, a respected monk and teacher of Alyosha Karamazov. Here son Dmitri accuses the father of withholding money from him. The father tells of Dmitri's extravagant lifestyle, he had made the rich Katerina believe that he loved her, but was actually interested in the former wife of a merchant, Gruschenka, who had a dubious reputation. To win them over, he needs money. The dispute escalates and it becomes clear that father and son are both courting Gruschenka. Dmitri is quick-tempered. When he believes that Gruschenka is staying with his father, Dmitri attacks his father and threatens to kill him one day. The brothers Ivan and Aljoscha hold back Dmitri. Ivan is considered the intellectual, is a nihilist and denies the presence of God even in front of the deeply believing Aljoscha. Ivan wishes to see his father dead, but would prevent a murder at any time.
Dmitri was engaged to Katerina. She had come to him a year ago in financial need and he had wanted to own her for money. When she agreed, in order to shame him, he gave her the money and let her go, surpassing her nobility. The engagement followed a short time later, although, in Dmitri's opinion, Katerina actually loved Ivan. However, for the love of Gruschenka, Dmitri Katerina gives up and Katerina and Gruschenka are also enemies after a meeting in which Gruschenka deeply humiliates Katerina. However, Dmitri is still indebted to Katerina: she once gave him 3,000 rubles, which he was supposed to give to an aunt on a planned trip to Moscow. However, Dmitri managed to get the money through with Grushenka. Drunk he writes to Katerina that he is trying to raise the money. If he doesn't succeed, he will murder his father. Dmitri tries in vain to get money from a lawyer and the forester Lyagawy. Aljoscha tries to get the money from his father, but he refuses to pay because he wants to win Gruschenka for himself.
Ivan plans to leave for Moscow, partly because he has finally turned away from Katerina. The father's servant, Smerdyakov, advises him to do so. It becomes clear that the servant believes that Dmitri wants to murder his father, as Smerdyakov reported to Dmitri, among other things, that the father deposited 3,000 rubles for Grushenka in the house. If Ivan is driving, he cannot be linked to the murder. Ivan is appalled, but tells Smerdyakov that he will start his trip to Moscow in the morning. Meanwhile, Gruschenka is called over by her former husband, the merchant Samsonov. She leaves the city without saying goodbye to Dmitri and pretends to have never loved him for more than the hour that they were together. Dmitri believes that she has chosen his father and rushes to him in a rage. A little later he appears bloodstained with the servants of Grushenka, who confess their true whereabouts to him.
Dmitri visits Gruschenka and Samsonov, who are staying in a hostel in a village. Dmitri drives out Samsonov and spends the evening with music and dance. In a quiet minute, he asks God to bring him back to life, hoping that he has not died. He is overheard by the host. He calls the police who arrested Dmitri. Dmitri denies the murder of his father: he wanted to kill him out of jealousy, but changed his mind at the last second. The blood on his hands came from the servant Smerdyakov, whom he had struck down in the garden. The 1,500 rubles found on him is part of the money he received from Katerina, not the father's 3,000 rubles. Dmitri is arrested and Grushenka promises to wait for him. Alyosha visits Dmitri in prison and assures him that he believes in his innocence. Ivan, on the other hand, appears the day before the trial against Dmitri at the sick servant Smerdyakov. The latter confesses to having murdered his father - at Ivan's behest, he had agreed to the father's murder in their conversation shortly before leaving, and had even commissioned it. Ivan is appalled, especially since Smerdyakov is pushing him the 3,000 rubles that his father had hidden in an envelope in the house - Dmitri did not know where they were hiding. Smerdyakov also claims to be Ivan's half-brother and thus a Karamazov. Ivan wants to bring Smerdyakov to court the next day, accusing him of murder and part of the guilt.
Ivan goes back to his apartment and there it becomes clear that he suffers from delusions and believes the devil in human form before him. His visions are interrupted by Alyosha, who informs him that Smerdyakov has killed himself. At the trial the next day, Dmitri initially seems close to acquittal. Katerina paints the relationship with Dmitri in the best colors and does not mention the fateful letter with the threat of murder, which Dmitri wrote her drunk. Gruschenka states that she sees the murderer in Smerdyakov, but also attacks Katerina. Ivan, in turn, admits that he instigated Smerdyakov to murder his father. He has no evidence and shortly afterwards believes he will see the devil in the courtroom. Ivan, who is about to collapse and appears hysterical, is finally led out of the room and in the tumult Katerina gives the fatal letter to the judge. Dmitri cannot sufficiently refute the murder allegation and is sentenced. He has to do forced labor in Siberia and Gruschenka follows him to Siberia.
production
In February 1968, two parts of The Brothers Karamazov had already been shot when director Ivan Pyrjew died unexpectedly. The third part was then completed by the main actors of the film Kirill Lavrov (Ivan) and Mikhail Ulyanov (Dmitri). The film had its world premiere on January 10, 1969. Part 3 was first shown on August 18, 1969. On October 17 and November 7, 1969, the various parts were shown in the GDR cinema and were shown for the first time on DFF 2 on July 2 and 3, 1971 .
The music was played by the film symphony orchestra under the direction of Emin Khachaturian .
synchronization
Annette wrote the DEFA dubbing dialogue for you , and Johannes Knittel directed it .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Dmitri | Mikhail Ulyanov | Gerhard Paul |
| Gruschenka | Lionella Pyrjewa | Renate Rennhack |
| Ivan | Kirill Lavrov | Hans-Peter Minetti |
| Alyosha | Andrei Myagkov | Peter Aust |
| Father Karamazov | Mark Prudkin | Willi Narloch |
| Katerina | Svetlana Korkoschko | Irmelin Krause |
| Smerdyakov | Valentin Nikulin | Jochen Thomas |
criticism
For Die Zeit , The Brothers Karamazov was “an elaborate color film by Pyrjew [...] a four-hour Dostoyevsky film in which the actors act as if they were in a court theater. It's the style of the day before yesterday, unfortunate with the line-up of first-class actors. ”The GDR criticism panned the film. “For a Soviet film, there could be no more damning judgment than that it cannot be distinguished from a Hollywood film,” wrote Ernst Schumacher. The Karamazov brothers are "a deeply retrograde film" with mere "socialist phrases" and without "social, society-changing power".
The film-dienst described The Brothers Karamazov as an "epic film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Dostoevsky [...] Despite the elaborate formal means and good presentation, the classic film was not completely convincing."
Awards
The Brothers Karamazov in 1970 for an Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film nomination but was unable to Costa-Gavras ' political thriller Z prevail.
Ivan Pyrjew, Michail Ulyanov & Kirill Lavrov were also nominated for the Golden Prize of the Moscow International Film Festival in 1969.
Web links
- The Brothers Karamazov in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See kinopoisk.ru
- ↑ René Drommert: Moscow - without fear of white beards . In: Die Zeit , No. 32, August 8, 1969, p. 14.
- ^ Ernst Schumacher: Writings on the performing arts . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1978, p. 273.
- ↑ The Karamazov brothers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .