Journey across three seas (film)

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Movie
German title Travel across three seas
Original title Хождение за три моря (Choschdenije sa tri morja), परदेसी (Pardesi)
Country of production Soviet Union , India
original language Russian , Hindi
Publishing year 1957
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Wassili Pronin
script Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Maria Smirnowa
production Naya Sansar, Mosfilm
music Anil Biswas
Boris Tchaikovsky
camera Vladimir Nikolayev
Yevgeny Andrikanis
Ramchandra Singh
occupation

Journey across three seas is a Soviet-Indian adventure film by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Wassili Pronin from 1957 based on the travelogue of the Russian explorer Afanassi Nikitin .

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Afanassi Nikitin was from Tver . His hometown belonged to the Russian state that had emerged with Moscow as its center on the upper reaches of the Volga . The young merchant had a restless heart, he traveled often. But all his longing belonged to that distant land from which he had heard so many wonderful things.

In the autumn of 1466 the time had come: Nikitin left Tver, he had joined a passenger train that wanted to go to Persia . In his luggage is the diary that 500 years later allows to trace his path and to give Nikitin the space he deserves.

He has a lot to write down. There is that night when the Tatars attack the travelers. The path seems to be over, but Nikitin saves himself. He only has bare life left, but he does not forget the goal. He dragged himself on on foot. There is the desert. The thirst, the heat and sand, just sand. A deceiver steals everything from him. Nikitin pursues him, it is a troublesome business. When he catches the robber, he has reached the sea. It must be somewhere on the horizon: the wonderland of India . A ship takes him. New ailments, storms and waves as high as a house, the water supply is running out - again Nikitin believes this is the end. There is land in sight. It is the land of his longing. After two years, Nikitin is there. The first Russian enters Indian soil. There are new adventures to be had. He makes friends. There is the singer Sakaram; there is the family of the girl Champa, whom he saves from death by snake venom; there is the court dancer Lakshmi, who can express everything with the movements of the dance.

Above all, however, is the country with its riddles. The blue sky, the rainy season, trees Nikitin had never seen, temples with high idols, spices and precious stones ...

One day Afanassi Nikitin knows that he has to leave again. Tver, home with the endless expanses, the snow of clear winter, he has to go back there. Must bring news of India and mediator between the two peoples.

The hike back is no less strenuous. After five years, Nikitin is stepping back on Russian soil. But he no longer comes to Tver. On the way, in a monastery, he dies of exhaustion. However, his report, his life outlasts the ages. Still gives tidings of a bold explorer, a man of the great Russian people.

backgrounds

That legendary country of Ophir , which is already mentioned in the Old Testament - it could very well have been India, speculate many scientists . However, if this thesis has not yet been proven, it is certain that the exploration of a route to India always played an important role in the thoughts of the great explorers. Little is known, however, that a Russian merchant, Afanassi Nikitin , set foot on the shores of the vast empire as early as 1468 .

At that time the first circumnavigator Magellan was not yet alive; the Portuguese Vasco da Gama did not find the sea route to India until thirty years later, and the Genoese Columbus , who discovered America and believed that he had landed on the east coast of India, was only 17 years old. Only the Venetian Marco Polo (1292) and the Arab Ibn Battuta (1333) traveled to India and reported about it.

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Reviews

“Colorful entertainment with a large number of participants and interesting insights into the Indian mentality, culture and landscape. Convincing in his humanistic attitude, technically rather average and with some lengths. "

- Lexicon of international film

literature

Afanassi Nikitin's interesting notes were used by the Soviet scientist KI Kunin as the basis for his historical travelogue Behind Three Seas . The book was published in 1952 by Neues Leben , Berlin .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Journey across three seas. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used