The stone flower
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The stone flower |
| Original title | Каменный цветок (Kamenny zwetok) |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1946 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alexander Ptushko |
| script |
Pavel Baschow Iossif Keller |
| production | Mosfilm |
| music | Lew Black |
| camera | Fyodor Provorov |
| cut | M. Kusmina |
| occupation | |
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The stone flower (original title: Russian Каменный цветок , Kamenny zwetok ) is a Soviet fairy tale film by Alexander Ptushko from 1946.
action
Grandfather Slyschko tells the village children a story that is said to have happened once:
The old stone cutter Prokopjitsch has mastered the handling of malachite . However, working with the stone affects his health and so he lies sick in his house and cannot perform the tasks brought to him. The rich landlord instructs him to pass on his skills to the next generations, but the children of the village have no feeling for the rock and Prokopjitsch also has no skill in teaching, so he chases all the children away. He is left with his foster son Danilo, who tends the sheep all day and is interested in flowers and even the smallest insects. One day Danilo looks at a work by Prokopjitsch and immediately knows how to cut the malachite sheet correctly. Old Prokopjitsch suspects that he might have found his master in Danilo and keeps him away from the stone, as he knows about the health risks involved in stone work.
The years go by and Danilo becomes a young man. Prokopjitsch is getting worse and worse, and yet one day he has to accept an order from the landlord: He has made a bet with a Frenchman that he has a more beautiful box than himself. Prokopjitsch is supposed to create the box from malachite within a few days, but soon collapses sick and exhausted without having finished the work. Danilo secretly makes the box that delights the landlord. The landlady orders a goblet from Danilo, which should have the shape of a flower. The work on the chalice lasts all summer, when Danilo sees little of his lover Katja. Both want to get married, but Danilo puts Katja off for the time after the chalice has been completed and Katja promises to wait for him. When the chalice is ready, everyone admires it. Danilo, however, is dissatisfied, because he wanted to create a piece of work that makes people forget the artificiality of stone and represents a true reflection of nature.
Preparations for the wedding are in progress when Danilo hears the voice of the mistress of the copper mountain. She calls him into her kingdom, where on the day of the wedding the stone flower will also bloom for the one day of the year that shows the way to true art. Danilo has heard of the mistress of the Copper Mountain and knows that the real artists and people obsessed with the rock work in the mountain, but also knows that they are trapped inside. The mistress of the copper mountain promises him that the gates will be open for him at all times, but that he may never want to return. Danilo follows her to see the stone flower and leaves Katja alone shortly before the wedding. In the copper mountain Danilo sees the big, shining, stone flower. He wants to create an image for her and begins to work. He rejects a marriage proposal from the mistress of the Kupferberg.
Although everyone believes Danilo dead, Katja knows that he is still alive and that he may have gone to the mistress of the copper mountain. She takes care of the sick Prokopjitsch and begins to work as a malachite tailor herself. One day she finds a particularly beautiful piece of malachite in the forest, but suddenly the mistress of the Copper Mountain stands in front of her and instructs her to leave her forest. Katja replies that she should release Danilo, who in the meantime has finished his work of art and has tried in vain to flee from the mistress of the copper mountain. Katja replies that she should look for Danilo. Back in the copper mountain, the mistress of the copper mountain finally realizes that she will never win Danilo over and releases him. Katja and Danilo find themselves in the mountain and the mistress of the copper mountain rewards both, because Danilo passed her test with his constant love for Katja. She hands Katja a box full of precious stones. Danilo, on the other hand, will always be able to remember his experiences in the Kupferberg. Danilo and Katja go into freedom together.
production
The stone flower is based on legends and stories from the Urals, which Pavel Bashov had compiled in the volume The chest made of malachite (Малахитовая шкатулка). Bashov was also involved in the script for the film. The same fairy tale served as a template for the ballet Die Steinerne Blume op. 118 (1950, first performance 1954) by Sergei Prokofjew . Work on the film began in 1945 and lasted until 1946.
The stone flower premiered in the Soviet Union on April 28, 1946 and was shown in German cinemas on April 8, 1947 in Berlin as a German premiere, with the original being shown with subtitles. “The Russian color film brought an organizational innovation to Berlin that is widely discussed and generally welcomed. The first step to abolish the sector boundaries has been taken, at least as far as the film is concerned: 'Die Steinerne Blume' ran simultaneously in all sectors, particularly festively released in the State Opera, ”said Der Spiegel in 1947. The German version was shown on television for the first time on November 18, 1970 on ARD and on December 7, 1973 on DFF 1 .
Although Der Spiegel described the film as the first Russian color film, the first colored Soviet film was released in 1936 with Nightingale, Little Nightingale (Груня Корнакова).
synchronization
Today's German dialogue version comes from the DEFA studio for dubbing in the 1970s .
As early as 1947, Tobis produced a dubbing directed by Volker J. Becker. However, this was probably based on a different cut version, as it was released on DVD by Ruscico.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Master Danilo | Vladimir Druzhnikov | Joachim Siebenschuh |
| Mistress of the Copper Mountain | Tamara Makarova | Renate Rennhack |
| Prokopjitsch | Mikhail Trojanowski | Werner Dissel |
| Katja | Ekaterina Derewshchikova | Regine Albrecht |
| Grandfather Slyschko | Alexei Kelberer | Werner Kamenik |
| Severyan | Mikhail Janschin | Helmut Müller-Lankow |
| Squire | Nikolai Temjakov | Fred Alexander |
| Landlady | A. Petukhova | Helga Piur |
| Old master | Nikolai I. Orlov | Ernst Riebold |
| Wichoricha | Lidija Deikun-Blagonrawowa | Ruth Kommerell |
| Jefimka | Serafim Saizew | Helmut Schellhardt |
| Danilo as a child | W. Kravchenko | Karsten Sittig |
criticism
In view of the German premiere in 1947, Der Spiegel wrote:
“A film that every mineralogist would like to make. The fairytale, the fairy world is reproduced in the style of the great Russian ballets. The color does not strive for naturalness, but for stylization, once in the glass-artificial, another time in the rural and colorful. "
The film-dienst called the film "a fairy tale from the Urals, whose subliminal 'socialist' morality (people live for work) is outweighed by the atmospheric and imaginative film design."
Awards
The stone flower was shown in competition for the Grand Prix (later Palme d'Or ) at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1946 . In Cannes he finally won the Grand Prix International de la couleur, the award for the best color film.
Web links
- The Stone Flower in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The stone flower in the online film database
- The stone flower on kino-teatr.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b From the chest of malachite. Ural fairy tales in colors . In: Der Spiegel , No. 16, April 19, 1947, p. 20.
- ↑ From the chest of malachite. Ural fairy tales in colors . In: Der Spiegel , No. 16, April 19, 1947, p. 19.
- ↑ See djfl.de ( Memento from February 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The stone flower. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 12, 2019 .
- ↑ See festival-cannes.fr