Don Quixote (1957)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Don Quixote |
| Original title | Дон Кихот |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Grigory Kosinsev |
| script | Yevgeny Black |
| production | Lenfilm |
| music | Qara Qarayev |
| camera |
Andrei Moskvin Apollinari Dudko |
| cut | Yevgenia Machankova |
| occupation | |
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Don Quixote is a Soviet literary film adaptation by Grigory Kosinzew from 1957. It is loosely based on the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes .
action
The Spanish nobleman Alonso Quijano has read too many chivalric novels and has become strange about them. He now calls himself Don Quixote de la Mancha, believes he is a knight and goes out into the world with his confidante Sancho Panza in the armor of his ancestors. His goal is not only the fight against injustice, which he wants to tackle on his horse Rosinante and with shield and lance, but also the victory over the powerful magician Feston, who turned his great love Dulcinea del Toboso into a simple peasant girl and also otherwise the reality will change for everyone else. In his exploits, he also wants to express his admiration for Dulcinea.
Don Quixote first saves a shepherd boy from the shepherd, the relatives are also told of adventurous deeds of their master, including the robbery of a razor bowl and the rescue of scourged believers. Don Quixote frees serious criminals from their chains and is beaten by them, rescues the allegedly kidnapped noblewoman Altisidora, who, however, was only caught up in her boredom, and believes that she recognizes a castle in a dive bar and virgins in the prostitutes. Everywhere he is either beaten or mocked. Sancho Panza, on the other hand, can defuse some precarious situations, but remains loyal to his master, who has promised him the governorship of an island to be conquered. Don Quixote returns to his home after a tiring battle with wineskins, who have turned into monsters in his imagination. The doctor Sanson Carrasco orders him strict bed rest and forbids him to ever leave the village.
Altisidora appears at Quixote's court to take him and Sancho Panza to the Duke and his wife, who want to be entertained by the confused man. The Duke and Duchess soon realize that there is more good-naturedness in the strange Don Quixote than madness. He is separated from Sancho Panza: Sancho Panza receives governorship over a village, where he is first mocked but soon venerated because of his wise judgments. Still, he is chased away in the end when the Duke wants to end his fun. Don Quixote is meanwhile being fooled. He is led to the laid out Altisidora, who allegedly died of lovesickness to him. Don Quixote regrets this, but even in the face of death cannot break away from his beloved Dulcinea. Altisidora rises from her deathbed and reveals to him that he is a fool. The court laughs and the duke knows that virtuous deeds and loyalty seem ridiculous and that love has little meaning. When he wants to pay Don Quixote money, he leaves the castle to the applause of the company.
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza meet again in the desert. Don Quixote finally wants to take up the fight against the magician and thinks he recognizes him in a windmill. He rides against the wings, is caught by them and carried into the air and crashes after a while. Sancho Panza explains to him that he is the only living knight on earth when a second knight appears and challenges Don Quixote to a fight. Don Quixote is defeated and the other knight sets a condition under which he lets him live: Don Quixote should return to his village and never leave it. Don Quixote agrees and the second knight identifies himself as Sanson Carrasco. Back in the village, Don Quixote falls ill and wants to die. Only a vision of Dulcinea and Sancho Panza, who both urge him to go on living, makes him reconsider his wish. The end shows a transfigured picture of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in the sunset, on their mounts.
production
Don Quichotte was shown in the Soviet Union on October 15, 1957 and was released in GDR cinemas on January 24, 1958. On April 3, 1959, the film was shown for the first time on GDR television on DFF 1 .
It was Lenfilm's first feature film to be made in widescreen . Lenfilm had previously only experimented with the possibilities of the widescreen process for the short film Пять дней (translated: five days) in 1956.
synchronization
The dialogue of the DEFA dubbing was written by Wolfgang Krüger , the direction was taken over by Albert Benohr .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Don Quixote | Nikolai Cherkassov | Walter Suessenguth |
| Sancho Panza | Yuri Tolubeyev | Paul R. Executioner |
| duke | Bruno Freindlich | Herwart Grosse |
| duchess | Lidija Wertinskaya | Maria Griem |
| Hypocrite | Olga Wiklandt | Hanna Rieger |
| Altisidora | Tamilla Agamirova | Gisela May |
| Aldonza | Lyudmila Kassyanova | Ingrid Chancellor |
| Carrasco | Georgi Wizin | Horst Drinda |
criticism
In 1958, Der Spiegel called Don Quixote an “undoctrinal work in which the author's benevolent irony was retained. Even if the director Kosinzew could only hope from the outset to gain a faint luster from the original with coarsened contours, he succeeded in creating a picture book that was faithful in many ways and that happily followed the style of Velázques and Murillo in terms of color, costume and scenery. The actors of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza have turned so much into the skinny knight with the sad figure and his plump squire that the colossal effort of this production does not seem wasted. " The time was that the film was" as intelligent as it is stylish film version of 'Don Quixote' with Nikolaj Cherkassov in the lead role. "
For the film service , Don Quixote was a “large-scale, cheerful and colorful sheet of images based on the profound satirical novel by Cervantes […]. Excellent performances by the director and actors make this Russian version worth seeing. "
Awards
Don Quixote was screened in the competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1957 . The film was shown at the Vancouver International Film Festival and director Kosinzew received an honorable mention. At the All Union Film Festival , Don Quixote received a first prize (Andrei Moskwin as best cameraman), two second prizes (Apollinari Dudko as best cameraman, Grigori Kosinzew as best director) and a third prize (best fictional film).
At the International Film Festival in Brussels, the film received the “Femina du Cinema” award and an honorary diploma, and at the International Film Festival in Stratford, Canada, Nikolai Cherkassov was named Best Actor. At the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián the film received an honorary diploma in 1964.
The International Film Festival Berlin 1993 was Don Quixote shown in a retrospective.
Web links
- Don Quixote in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Don Quixote on kino-teatr.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cf. general catalog of the Lenfilm productions ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ New in Germany: Don Quixote (Soviet Union) . In: Der Spiegel , No. 16, 1958, p. 51.
- ^ UG: Film . In: Die Zeit , No. 26, June 25, 1965.
- ↑ Don Quixote. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See festival-cannes.com
- ↑ See progress-film.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
