James Bond 007 - With love from Moscow

Movie
German title	James Bond 007 - With love from Moscow
Original title	From Russia with Love
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English , Russian , Turkish
Publishing year	1963
length	115 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Terence Young
script	Richard Maibaum
production	Albert R. Broccoli , ; Harry Saltzman
music	John Barry , ; theme song: Lionel Bart , sung by Matt Monro
camera	Ted Moore
cut	Peter R. Hunt
occupation
	Sean Connery : James Bond ; Daniela Bianchi : Tatiana "Tanja" Romanova; Pedro Armendáriz : Ali Kerim Bey; Lotte Lenya : Pink Adhesive; Robert Shaw : Donald "Red" Grant; Bernard Lee : M ; Eunice Gayson : Sylvia Trench; Walter Gotell : Morzeny; Francis De Wolff : Vavra; George Pastel : train conductor; Nadja Regin : Kerim's girlfriend; Lois Maxwell : Miss Moneypenny ; Aliza Gur : Vida; Martine Beswick : Zora; Vladek Sheybal : Kronsteen; Anthony Dawson : Ernst Stavro Blofeld ; Leila : dancer in the gypsy camp; Hasan Ceylan : Bulgarians; Fred Haggerty : Krilencu; Neville Jason : Kerim's son / driver; Peter Bayliss : Benz; Nushet Ataer : Mehmet; Peter Brayham : Rhoda; Desmond Llewelyn : Major Boothroyd ; Jan Williams : masseuse; Peter Madden : MacAdams; Muhammat Kohen : Hagia Sophia travel guide; William Hill : Nash; John Crewdson : helicopter pilot;
synchronization
chronology
← Predecessor ; James Bond - 007 chases Dr. No	Successor → ; James Bond 007 - Goldfinger

James Bond 007 - From Russia with Love (Original title: From Russia with Love ) is the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming and the second James Bond film based on Fleming's works. The film was released in 1963 and is regarded by critics as one of the best Bond films - including the lead actor Sean Connery himself. The film opened in German cinemas on February 14, 1964.

action

The criminal organization PHANTOM (in the English-language original SPECTER , Special Executive for Counter Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, Extortion , but also English for "bogeyman") wants to play the two sides against each other during the Cold War . According to the plan drawn up by the PHANTOM strategist Kronsteen, they want to steal the Soviet Lector decoding machine and at the same time contact James Bond for the death of the PHANTOM partner Dr. No avenge.

The former head of the Soviet secret service, Rosa Klebb, is commissioned to carry out the plan. She has secretly defected to PHANTOM and recruits the unsuspecting decryption specialist of the Soviet consulate, Tatiana Romanova, for an alleged special mission: She is supposed to start an affair with James Bond. A message is leaked to the British secret service that a Soviet agent wants to get Bond this machine because she has fallen in love with him. James Bond is commissioned to procure this device. Before he starts his trip to Istanbul , he receives a briefcase from Q that is equipped with various gadgets. In Istanbul he begins a romance with Tatiana Romanova in order to get to the decryption machine.

With the help of MI6 confidante Ali Kerim Bey and Tatianas, Bond takes the decryption machine and escapes with them on the Simplon-Orient-Express through Yugoslavia . Both a Russian agent and the PHANTOM agent "Red" Grant are on board the train. Bond finds the Russian agent and Ali Kerim Bey, who were killed by Grant, and is ultimately lured into a trap by himself. Grant reveals the full plan to him and announces to Bond that he will be painfully murdered. With the help of his special briefcase, Bond can free himself from the predicament and, after a fight in the compartment, manages to kill Grant and escape from the train with Tatiana. On the following escape, the two of them are harassed by PHANTOM agents with a helicopter and later with boats, but finally arrive in Venice .

After Bond has survived all the dangers of cunning and skill, the PHANTOM leader calls Blofeld Kronsteen and Rosa Klebb, who give each other responsibility for the failure of the plan. Blofeld finally has Kronsteen killed as a failure and gives Klebb one last chance to kill Bond and seize the Lector . Disguised as a maid, she tries to kill Bond with a poisoned shoe tip. Tatiana Romanova has to choose between love for Bond and her obligation to her supposed boss; she shoots Klebb and thus saves Bond in dire need.

production

American logo

British logo, on which the German language was oriented

occupation

Blofeld, of whom only the back of his head and hands can be seen, is played by Anthony Dawson , who played the villain Professor Dent in the previous film. In the English original, like in Feuerball , it was dubbed by the Austrian actor Eric Pohlmann .

Desmond Llewelyn appears for the first time in the role of Q. In the German dubbed version of the film he is still referred to as the "weapon master". He played this character in all official Bond films from 1963 until his death in 1999, except 1973 in Live and Let Die . The verbal test of strength that is usual for the relationship between Bond and Q is still missing in this film. Q only explains the different functions of Bond's briefcase without expressing the special friendship between the two.

Rosa Klebb was played by Lotte Lenya .

The role of Tatiana Romanova was cast with Daniela Bianchi. Since those responsible were of the opinion that Bianchi's English was not good enough, the role was dubbed by British actress Barbara Jefford .

The actor Pedro Armendáriz can be seen in the role of Ali Kerim Bey for the last time on the screen before his death.

Filming

The shooting took place from April 1, 1963 to August 23, 1963.

For publicity photos, main actor Sean Connery posed with a raised gun in his hand. It was a simple air gun brand Walther Model 53. This was in 2010 by the British auction house Christie's auctioned for £ 277,250 higher than expected and is likely therefore the most expensive gun in the world have become.

The chess game between Kronsteen and MacAdams is based on the chess game Spassky - Bronstein, USSR championship 1960 . Spasski was later world chess champion from 1969 to 1972 .

music

The song From Russia With Love was sung by Matt Monro . A version without vocals is used in the opening credits. A version with vocals is only used in the credits. After seeing the much acclaimed instrumentation in the previous film Dr. No , this is the first complete Bond film by composer John Barry . For the first time, he also introduced a musical action theme under the name “007” in the soundtrack, which from now on will be performed in variations in Bond films up to and including Moonraker (1979).

The soundtrack was first released on United Artists Records in 1963 on LP . In the 1980s, a first CD pressing was released by EMI Records. After the 40th James Bond anniversary, a new revised version was released by Capitol Records in 2003. In Germany there was also a German version of the title song, which was sung by Ruth Berlé under the title “The Volga is Far”.

Original edition

Opening Titles: James Bond Is Back From Russia With Love (02:29)
Tania Meets Klebb (01:29)
Meeting In St. Sophia (01:09)
The Golden Horn (02:26)
Girl Trouble (02:25)
Bond Meets Tania (01:20)
007 (02:46)
Gypsy Camp (01:16)
Death of Grant (01:59)
From Russia With Love (02:35) sung by Matt Munro
Specter Island (01:18)
Guitar Lament (01:11)
Man Overboard - Smersh In Action (02:18)
James Bond With Bongos (02:32)
Stalking (02:05)
Leila Dances (01:56)
Death of Kerin (02:30)
007 Takes The Lektor (03:03)

Locations

The film was shot in the following countries:

United Kingdom
- Pinewood Studios , London
- Hurley , Berkshire
- Firth of Lorn , Scotland
- Crinan and Lochgilphead , Scotland

Italy
- Venice

Turkey
- Istanbul
- Pendik Bay

Serbia (then Yugoslavia )
- Belgrade

Spain

Gadgets

The briefcase - this is Bond's first gadget (technical gadget). It is handed over to him by the Q department and contains a sniper rifle that can be dismantled (in the fictitious) caliber 0.25 with a telescopic sight with "infrared rays" (a night vision device of the size shown was not technically feasible at the time). The weapon shown in the film was an actual AR-7 survival rifle in caliber .22 LR (5.6 × 15 mm), which was manufactured by ArmaLite for the US Air Force as emergency armament. The original AR-7 could be dismantled as shown, but did not contain a silencer . The AR-7 reappears in the later film Goldfinger in the hands of Tilly Masterson.
20 rounds of ammunition, a knife and 50 gold pieces ( sovereigns ) are hidden in the briefcase's secret compartments . The lock is secured with a mechanism which, if operated incorrectly, releases a tear gas charge hidden in a powder compact.
An inconspicuous bug detector (originally an “Elcometer” layer thickness measuring device).
A pager - Bond had a device with which the MI6 secret service could contact him at any time (originally a pager from Multitone).
A cellular phone in Bond's car, a Bentley Mark IV - was by no means a given at the time.
A tape recorder hidden in a camera.
The opponent Red Grant has a garrotte disguised as a wristwatch , which is shown again briefly in the later film On Her Majesty's Secret Service .
In the toe of Klebb and Morzeny there is a hidden, poisonous spring blade.

synchronization

role	actor	German voice actor
James Bond	Sean Connery	Gert Günther Hoffmann
Tatiana Romanova	Daniela Bianchi	Marianne Mosa
Ali Kerim Bey	Pedro Armendáriz	Klaus Miedel
Pink adhesive	Lotte Lenya	Alice Treff
Donald "Red" Grant	Robert Shaw	Horst Niendorf
M.	Bernard Lee	Siegfried Schürenberg
Sylvia Trench	Eunice Gayson	Uta Hallant
Morzeny	Walter Gotell	Benno Hoffmann
Vavra	Francis De Wolff	Stanislav Ledinek
Train conductor	George pastel	Wolfgang Draeger
Kronsteen	Vladek Sheybal	Jürgen Thormann
Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Anthony Dawson	Friedrich Joloff
Major Boothroyd (Q)	Desmond Llewelyn	Heinz Petruo

premiere

The world premiere took place on October 10, 1963 at different locations in London. The main event is the performance at the Odeon in Leicester Square, where actors Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi and producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman were present. The British royal family was represented by the Duke of Bedford and his wife.

In the United States, the premiere took place on April 8, 1964 in New York City. From May 27, 1964, the film was shown there as a double feature with War Is Hell . The film opened in German cinemas on February 14, 1964.

Aftermath

Financial success

The film was a huge commercial success. With a budget of an estimated $ 2 million, it grossed nearly $ 79 million worldwide, with nearly 25 million in the United States alone.

According to data from 2011, the magazine Stern gives an inflation-adjusted US $ 576 million as global box office income, which puts the film in 10th place out of 23. The number of visitors in Germany is given as 3 million.

Contemporary criticism

"The highlight of the ironically served adventure is the hunt for the fleeing Bond by helicopter and speedboat."

- Lexicon of international film

Later evaluation

In retrospect, the film is often cited as one of the best contributions to the James Bond franchise, e.g. B. 1984 by Raymond Benson in his standard work The James Bond Bedside Companion . This assessment is also borne out by the positions in various rankings in recent years.

In 2006, over 40 years after the film was released, Entertainment Weekly magazine ranked the James Bond films, in which Greetings from Moscow came 9th out of 21 films. The slow pace of the film was criticized.

In 2009, the German James Bond expert Siegfried Tesche named the film 3rd in a list of the ten best James Bond films of all time. He liked the achievements of the villain actors Robert Shaw and Lotte Lenya.

Three years later, visitors to the James Bond fan site MI6-HQ.com voted for the best Bond films, with Greetings from Moscow being the third best film.

In 2012, the Bond films were rated by the readers of 007 Magazine . Greetings from Moscow also took third place here. In a likewise 2012 published list of Rolling Stone takes From Russia with Love even place 2 of 24 movies a. In the 2012 Stern special issue 50 Years of James Bond , the film was rated 5 out of 5 stars (“super”). In the same year, Greetings from Moscow was named the third best Bond film by Time Out magazine .

Awards (selection)

Cinematographer Ted Moore received the British Film Academy Award in 1964 in the Best British Cinematography category.

Publications

The film ran on June 9, 1984 at 10:15 p.m. on ARD as the first film in the series for the first time on German television.

Adaptations

Video game

Electronic Arts released the video game From Moscow with Love in 2005 . The game's makers managed to get Sean Connery to synchronize his Bond role. Engelbert von Nordhausen can be heard in the German version. Nordhausen also dubbed additional scenes with Connery in the DVD edition of Sag nie nie a few years earlier.

radio play

The label Europa released the revised soundtrack of the film as a radio play on music cassette. The narrator that does not exist in the film is spoken by Norbert Langer .

literature

Danny Morgenstern, Manfred Hobsch: James Bond XXL. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89602-545-7 .
Danny Morgenstern : 007 XXS 50 years of James Bond - from Moscow with love. DAMOKLES, ISBN 978-3-00-042681-0 .