The Garage (1980)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The garage |
| Original title | Гараж |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eldar Ryazanov |
| script | Eldar Ryazanov Emil Braginski |
| production | Mosfilm |
| music | Andrei Petrov |
| camera | Vladimir Nachabzew |
| cut | Valeria Belowa |
| occupation | |
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The Garage is a 1980 Soviet film satire directed by Eldar Ryazanov .
action
The members of the “Fauna” garage building association have gathered for a meeting in the zoological museum of a research institute for the protection of animals. After discussions about the financing of the garages under construction, information about material shortages and similar things, the members already want to leave when Sidorin, who heads the cooperative together with the deputy director of the museum Anikeyeva, announces a delicate decision: the construction of an expressway is also affected the building plot for the garages, so that fewer garages can be built than planned: four members of the cooperative have to give up their garage and be excluded from the cooperative. The management has already crossed four people from their list: Fetisov, who once sold his house in the country for a car, the pensioner Yakubov, Chwostov, who was muted by a cold, and the scientist Guskov, who was represented at the meeting by his wife . It is Guskov's wife who first objects to the decision: Her husband is always the whipping boy for everyone, works to help others, like Dr. To have to leave Anikejewa, and is now also excluded. In protest, Chwostov lies down on the table of the meeting leaders and a little later pretends to have eaten all of the management's documents. He secretly burns her in an adjoining room.
In addition to Chwostov and Guskov's wife, Fetisov and Yakubov are also protesting, who raise concerns that the son of the influential Milosserdov and the head of the market hall Kushakova recently became members of the cooperative without consulting the cooperative members. Guskov's wife accuses Anikeeva of being bribed and calls for the exclusion of "vitamin B people". The vote on the decision to expel the four people from the cooperative is chaotic but final. Nobody opposes the arbitrary decision of the management, only the single mother and scientific aspirant Malayeva abstains from the vote in protest. When all the meeting participants want to leave the room, all doors are locked. Malayeva admits to having hidden the key and demands to be allowed to give a speech. Initially, there was a positive vote to felt Malayeva in order to find the key, but it has disappeared. Malayeva is now allowed to speak, especially since some participants like the newlywed groom want to go home in a hurry. In her speech, Malayeva denounced the inhumanity of the decision and the selfish attitude of every individual in the room who did not revolt against the decision. Jakubow, for example, is a pensioner, but has worked hard at the institute for 30 years and has also been recognized as a well-deserved veteran of the war and, among other things, for storming Berlin. Sidorin and Anikeeva are ashamed and take Yakubov back into the cooperative. Who should go instead is open.
It is initially proposed to exclude all members of the cooperative who are not employed at the institute and who were originally only accepted into the cooperative under the institute's control because of insufficient membership. Since it is already well after midnight, a decision is postponed until the next morning. All participants make themselves comfortable on and around the prepared animals in the museum. After a short time, the discussion starts again and a decision is made: Kushakova and Milloserdow's son are excluded and the daughter of Professor Smirnowski, Marina, does not get a garage, as the family has already been awarded a garage for Smirnowski. Anikeeva again arbitrarily chooses the scientist Guskow as fourth. His wife stands next to her for a short time, sees her children in some of the people present, her husband in Sidorin again and asks him whether he is cheating on her and whether she has become too old for him. Embarrassment spreads and you decide to determine the final exclusion by lottery. Everyone eventually draws an empty ticket and is delighted. The last lot in the hat, which must be the one marked, is finally given to a participant who has slept through all the discussions and is now woken up with a smile by all those present.
production
The garage was released in Soviet cinemas in January 1980. The film ran in GDR cinemas on August 26, 1988 and was shown for the first time on May 14, 1990 on DFF 2 on German television. In November 2005, Icestorm released the film on DVD as part of the Russian Classics series .
synchronization
The dialogue of the DEFA dubbing was written by Wolfgang Krüger, the direction was taken by Michael Englberger .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Malayeva | Lija Achedschakowa | Ingrid Hille |
| Anikeeva | Ija Sawwina | Rosemarie Deibel |
| Guskov's wife | Svetlana Nemolyayeva | Barbara Trommer |
| Sidorin | Valentin Gaft | Siegfried Voss |
| Fetisov | Georgi Burkov | Walter Jackel |
| Karpuchin | Vyacheslav Newinny | Bert Franzke |
| Smirnovsky | Leonid Markov | Friedhelm Eberle |
| Milosserdov's son | Igor Kostolewski | Matthias Hummitzsch |
| Marina | Olga Ostroumowa | Dagmar Dempe |
| Kushakova | Anastassija Voznesenskaya | Astrid Bless |
| Yakubov | Gleb Strischenow | Victor Dräger |
| The groom | Boryslaw Brondukow | Wolfgang Jakob |
| The trombonist | Semyon Farada | Hasso Billerbeck |
| Natasha | Natalia Gurso | Manon Straché |
criticism
Renate Holland-Moritz called The Garage “a cinematic treasure” that is recommended for “friends of relentless satire and biting jokes”.
The film-dienst called The Garage a “turbulent, thematically explosive comedy with satirical escalations.” “In his satire from the pre- Gorbachev era, director Eldar Ryazanov denounces the human and economic weaknesses of everyday socialist life. Conclusion: Soviet satire that is as bold as it is funny, ”wrote Cinema .
Web links
- The garage in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See kino-teatr.ru
- ↑ The garage . In: Renate Holland-Moritz: The owl in the cinema. New movie reviews . Eulenspiegel, Berlin 1994, p. 132.
- ↑ The garage. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de