Yegor Bulychov and Others (1973)

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Movie
German title Yegor Bulychov and others
Original title Егор Булычов и другие
Country of production USSR
original language Russian
Publishing year 1973
length 85 minutes
Rod
Director Sergei Solovyov
script Sergei Solovyov
production Mosfilm
music Isaak Schwartz
camera Leonid Kalashnikov
cut R. Abramovich
occupation

Yegor Bulichow and others (original title: Егор Булычов и другие , Yegor Bulytschow i drugije ) is a Soviet feature film directed by Sergei Solovjow from 1973 based on the drama of the same name by Maxim Gorki from 1932.

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Part 1: November 1916 - Illness

The documentary footage shows the tsar in Moscow during a festive service in the Kremlin , how the Don Cossacks greet the tsar and how the tsar says goodbye to guardsmen on the war front . The footage from the war shows modern military technology, combat operations, injured and dead on both sides of the battle lines, as well as the joy of victory of Russian soldiers after a battle has been won .

Yegor Bulytschow wants to pick up cleric Pavlin at the Kostroma train station , but this is delayed by the many wounded soldiers arriving on the same train. On the drive to Bulychov's house, Pavlin tries to convince him to donate money to make a bell, which will certainly help him recover. At the same time, Bulychev's wife Xenija confesses to the manager of her husband's company, Mokai Bashkin, that she married a salesman, but the wrong one, because Mokai would have been the right one. If she had married him, she would live more calmly, because then she would not have had to endure so many bad things from her husband. His illegitimate daughter Alexandra, who is only called Shura by everyone, now has her on her neck. He chose the son-in-law for their daughter Varvara from among the very worst and both of them will exempt them if Yegor should die.

After Jegor's arrival at the house, everyone sits together at the dinner table and insults each other with large and small tips . The subject of war is also addressed. The tsars can not only exploit their own people, who have nothing to eat, but also have to conquer foreign peoples. Then it is discussed that it is a cursed war, but the question is who it is cursed for. Then Bulytschow also accuses his manager of stealing from him, which causes him to leave the group. Now it's about Jakob Laptjew, Yegor's godson, who apparently surrounds himself with dubious people in the market and makes anti-government speeches. The conversation is interrupted by the maid Glascha, who registers a medical commission to examine Bulychov, which is why he has to leave the company. After the examination, the doctors do not respond to his various offers if they keep him alive, which proves that he can no longer be saved. During this time, Shura was out for a walk with Stepan Tyatin, her brother-in-law's cousin, who wants to pair them up. But Tyatin confesses to her that he doesn't like her very much and that he, like her father, considers her to be clever and angry, which is why he is afraid of her. Back at home, she meets her father, who is the only one of the family members, who feels trapped in the room by the other family members. Yegor tells her how bad he is and that all the anger he has now only appeared when his illness began. Then Egor goes to bed with Glascha, who repeatedly tries to convince him to go away with her, because the others will eat him alive like a worm. Yegor confesses to her that he will die, which she refuses to admit.

Part 2: January 1917 - Mutiny

Again documentary recordings precede the second part: Tsar Nicholas during a festive service at the fire line, a member of the State Duma thanks the soldiers and distributes gifts. Recordings of the acts of war from both sides of the front are shown. On the German side, the Kaiser visits the soldiers and because of the great losses, young Russian recruits march into battle.

The clergyman Pavlin has come to visit again from Moscow and is talking to Bulychov about the political situation in Russia while he is chopping firewood in the snow-covered courtyard. Pawlin says that in Moscow even the voices of those with a mature mind are increasing who want to depose the tsar for incompetence. Yegor defends him, however, because he has ruled well for over twenty years and personally shook his hand on the occasion of the 300-year rule of the Romanovs in 1913, which pleased the whole people in Kostroma. Meanwhile, Shura is sitting in the kitchen with Jakob, who is sure to get something to eat for the first time in a long time. Both talk about the coming revolution , which he says has already started. The next question concerns Stepan Tyatin and Jakob replies that he thinks he is a washcloth. Now Shura just asks how she can help him with his seditious activities. While Bulytschow's daughter Varvara is celebrating with her husband and several friends in a restaurant, they both reaffirm their intention to bring Shura together with Tyatin as soon as possible, since the father will definitely not live long. At the same time, Egor receives an injection from Glascha at home to relieve his pain. She asks him again to go away with her, as everyone is just waiting for him to die. But he says he sees and knows everything and he also knows that she and Shura are the only people who stand by him. But he has not given up hope of getting well again.

After the celebration in the restaurant, the group goes back to Bulytschow's house, where the abbess Melanja has arrived in the meantime. She is the sister of Yegor's wife Xenija and was once Yegor's lover. Now she has come to get back the money that she and her sister once put in Bulychov's business for the church, as she has also noticed that he will not live long. He wants to give it to her too, since he's had enough of it. In conversation, he looks back on his life and regrets having been a great sinner. But Melanja rebukes him that he should not repent before her and the people, but before God, because he is gracious. The dispute over faith and his way of life intensifies until Melanya's expulsion from the house. Shortly afterwards, a tuba player , appointed by Pope Gawlin, arrives who claims that he can rid Bulychov of his illness with his game. He receives a lot more rubles than he charges and now has to play around the house so that everyone else is aware of it. Yegor demands that the tuba player play loud enough until the others become deaf. But now the son-in-law intervenes with the remark that Yegor is drunk. This becomes palpable due to the utterance and smashes the entire furnishings of the room. Only Shura's gaze can dissuade him from further destructive rage.

Part 3: April 1917 - In the wrong house

The third part also begins with documentary film clips from this period: Freedom - Equality - Fraternity, the revolution hits the streets. A new government cabinet has been established, the people cheer for the interim government under AF Kerensky , while those who are loyal to the government demonstrate. In any case, the war should continue to the victorious end, which is why young recruits continue to be sent to the front.

The talks on the streets of Kostroma deal with the abdication of the Tsar, who, however, did not resign voluntarily, but was captured by members of the Cadet Party. During a tour of his factory, Bulychov observes several workers and Mokai Bashkin realizes that some of them have got rid of the tsar, the other part wants to abolish all the rich and rule the state themselves, and Bulychov fears that they will only drink the state. From now on, Yegor is getting worse and worse and in conversation with Shura he suspects that for the last thirty years he has lived in the wrong house, only among strangers. Priests, tsars and governors, what does he need them for and he doesn't believe in God either, because where should he be? There are only very few good people, he worries how Shura will continue to live without him.

On the advice of his wife, Bulytschow wants to reconcile with Melanja again, which he gives to understand. On the way to the salon of his house, supported by Glascha, he meets Pope Pawlin, with whom he has a long conversation about God, life and death and whom he reproaches for having made rich in the poor Christ. So they arrive at the salon where relatives and friends are gathered. Suddenly a fool comes into the house who, according to Bulychov, was ordered by Melanya. The fool begins to make speeches, which are also directed against Yegor, until he falls into a trance himself . Bulytschew recognizes a funeral mass in it, which is held for a living person and collapses in the arms of his daughter Shura until the blood runs out of his mouth.

Production and publication

The film of the production association sucking in color, with several documentary black and white film - sequences , twisted film had on April 9, 1973 другие entitled Егор Булычов и in the Soviet Union premiere.

In the GDR it was first shown on March 20, 1973 in the Berlin Kino International . The film was broadcast in the second program on October 12, 1975 on East German television.

criticism

HU wrote in the Neue Zeit about the director:

“... what he gives is an authentically cinematic version. It is concise and concentrated, it does justice to the inherent dramaturgical and optical laws of film art. It is determined by the loyalty to Gorky, not in the sense of imitative literality, but in the spiritual principle. It is not an illustration, but an interpretation. "

Manfred Heidicke states in the Berliner Zeitung :

“The film picks out from the widely ramified storyline of the play, above all, those moments that relate to Bulytschow's conflict-ridden cognitive process. The story of the others, whose attitudes ultimately challenge this man's trial, is not so accentuated. As can be seen, this results in advantages and disadvantages of this film adaptation. The self-indulgent protest against lies and injustice is undoubtedly made clear in the person of Bulytschow. On the other hand, the film lacks tight, dramatic tension, since this challenge of Bulytschow is only partially visible. "

The Lexicon of International Films writes that this is a true-to-life and artistically remarkable film adaptation of Maxim Gorky's drama of the same name.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neue Zeit of March 16, 1973, p. 7
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of March 28, 1973, p. 4
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 3, 1973, p. 6
  4. ↑ Yegor Bulytschow and others. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 29, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used