The nightingale (film)

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Movie
German title The Nightingale
Original title Соловей
(Solowei)
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1980
length 81 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Nadezhda Kosheverova
script Mikhail Wolpin
production Lenfilm
music Moissei Wainberg
camera Eduard Rosowski
occupation
synchronization

The nightingale (original title: russisch Соловей , Solowei ) is a Soviet fairy tale film by Nadezhda Koschewerowa from 1980.

action

Maria and the shoemaker Evan are in love, but Maria does not want to let Evan kiss her until he is old enough to grow a beard. Evan is disappointed and meets a wizard who has lost his wand and therefore cannot escape a tree. Evan finds the wand and saves the wizard, who then gives him a wish. Evan wants a beard, but Maria doesn't like it, so she lets the beard be removed again. A short time later, soldiers of the late king appear at Evan's house, after all, they are looking for the lost king's son. He had three birthmarks on his back in a certain order, and the wizard who finally wants to grant Evan a wish conjures these three birthmarks on Evan's back. Evan is now considered the lost prince and is brought to the castle. Maria is left alone.

At court, Evan receives Chancellor Krab as an advisor, as well as a group of old, duck-mouse advisers at his side. He takes dance lessons and speaking lessons in French and the mechanic builds a mechanical nightingale for him at his request, since everything at court is mechanical. In addition, two tailors appear to him, who are supposed to make him a robe for the upcoming coronation. In addition to normal material, they also have a special material with them that only those who are worthy of their office can see. All councilors and the chancellor pretend to see the invisible fabric and Evan finally has his coronation robe “tailored”. To top it off, he appears in underwear, and although the Council of Boms actually wants to say something about the king's nudity, he doesn't dare. Maria, who has since found a job as a dishwasher at the court, calls to Evan that he should finally realize that he is being exposed, after all, he is almost naked. Before the king's soldiers can catch her, she manages to escape.

She goes into hiding with the wizard and complains to him that Evan's actually well-meaning royal dignity has completely changed. The magician reproaches himself and eventually turns Maria into a princess. At a ball Evan falls in love with her - she reminds him of his former love Maria. Both dance together. A little later, Evan sends Maria the mechanical nightingale and a rose wrapped in glass. Maria in turn lets a doll appear for the rendezvous and replies to Evan that he probably loves the artificial more than the living. Back at the castle, Evan fell into melancholy and fell ill because he could no longer endure the artificial at court. Maria asks the nightingale, who always sings in the forest, to save Evan. The nightingale flies in front of Evan's window and begins to sing. Her singing makes Evan well and he remembers his earlier time with Maria. He escapes from the castle and leaves a message in which he renounces the royal dignity. Evan returns to Maria and both of them wish that the magician would never part again.

production

The nightingale is based on various fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen , including The Emperor's New Clothes . The film premiered in June 1980 in the Soviet Union. The film was released in the GDR cinemas on July 17, 1981, and on December 18, 1982, it had its television premiere in the GDR on DFF 1 . Icestorm released the film on DVD in January 2005 as part of the series The most beautiful fairy tale classics in Russian film history .

synchronization

Klaus Marschke wrote the dialogue for the DEFA dubbing , and Margot Spielvogel directed it .

role actor Voice actor
Maria Svetlana Smirnova Gabriele Streichhahn
Evan Yuri Vasilyev Peter Reinhardt
Chancellor Krab Alexander Wokatsch Bert Brunn
Council Boms Sinowi Gerdt Wolfgang Dehler
Admiral General Nikolai Trofimov Günter Grabbert
Mechanic Alexander Demyanenko Rudiger Evers
wizard Konstantin Adaschewski Alfred Bohl

The German opening credits give Fred-Arthur Geppert as the spokesman for Trofimov, but this statement is strangely incorrect - apparently Geppert fell in at short notice and Grabbert (his colleague from Leipzig) stepped in.

criticism

The film-dienst wrote that the film "based on motifs from fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen [...] mockingly [caricatured] the narrow-minded world of courtiers in order to contrast it with the values ​​of true friendship, loyalty and love."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See kino-teatr.ru
  2. ↑ The nightingale. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on December 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ The nightingale. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used