Kalina Krassnaja - Red Elderberry
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Kalina Krassnaja - Red Elderberry |
| Original title | Калина красная |
| Country of production | USSR |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vasily Schukschin |
| script | Vasily Schukschin |
| production | Mosfilm |
| music | Pavel Chekalov |
| camera |
Anatoly Sabolozki A. Bobrov |
| cut | J. Mikhailova |
| occupation | |
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Kalina Krassnaja - Red Elderberry is a Soviet feature film by Vasily Schukschin from 1974. It is based on the story of the same name by the director, who also played the male lead in the film.
action
After five years in prison, the thief Yegor Prokudin, known as "Pechkopf", is released from prison. During the time of his imprisonment he wrote letters to Lyuba Baikalova; they have never met before and Lyuba suspects that Yegor was only sent to prison because of a misunderstanding. She invites him to her village. Yegor first goes to his criminal friends, but he gets caught in a raid and just manages to escape. He is now going to Ljuba in the country.
In the village it soon becomes known that Lyuba has brought a criminal into the community. Yegor expects distrust and fear from Ljuba's parents. Lyuba also realizes that Yegor is not the poetic person she got to know in his letters. She gives him a week to socialize in the village. Then he can return to his old life. However, Egor succeeds in integrating into village life. He first became a chauffeur and later a tractor driver. He has saved money that he is investing in the city and Lyuba knows that she will stand by him because she feels sorry for him.
When a former chum arrives in the village to give Egor instructions from the former boss, Egor chases him off. He wants to cut all ties to his previous life and settle in the village. When one day he plows the fields again with the tractor, the entire gang from earlier appears. Egor faces them and is shot by one of the criminals. He dies in Ljuba's arms. The only consolation for her are the letters that Yegor wrote to her from prison.
production
Kalina Krasnaya - Red Elderberry was filmed in Vologda and Belozersk , among others . The church of Krochino can be seen in a final scene of the film. The film opened on March 25, 1974 in the Soviet Union and was shown in the same year as part of the Days of Soviet Film in a personal retrospective by director Schukschin in the GDR. It was officially released in GDR cinemas on September 26, 1975 under the title Red Elder . On August 8, 1976, it ran for the first time on East German television . Icestorm released the film on DVD in 2008.
synchronization
The dialogue of the DEFA dubbing was written by Harald Thiemann , the direction was taken over by Margot Spielvogel .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Lyuba | Lidija Fedosejewa-Schukschina | Johanna Clas |
| Yegor Prokudin | Vasily Schukschin | Fred Düren |
| Ljuba's father | Ivan Ryschow | Helmut Müller-Lankow |
| Ljuba's mother | Maria Skvortsova | Lotte Loebinger |
| Pyotr | Alexei Wanin | Dietmar Richter-Reinick |
| soy | Maria Vinogradova | Evamaria Bath |
| Egor's mother | Efimia Bystrowa | Trude Brentina |
| Examining magistrate | Shanna Prokhorenko | Irmelin Krause |
| Waiter | Lev Durov | Klaus Mertens |
| Kolya | Anatoly Gorbenko | Lutz Riemann |
criticism
For Renate Holland-Moritz , Kalina Krassnaja - Red Elderberry was “a cinema event”. She found that the scenes of the first meeting between Ljuba and Yegor and the meeting between Yegor and Ljuba's parents “belong to the most moving things that have ever been made in a contemporary film. Before our eyes, without a hint of pathetic or sentiment, the whole gamut of human feelings is revealed: kindness, understanding, helpfulness, fear, prejudice, faint-heartedness. "
The film-dienst called the film “a plea against exclusion and for the reintegration of offenders. The fresh way of standing up for humanity also earned director and author Schukschin international attention. "
Cinema summarized: "Once a hit in the USSR, grayed out today".
Award
Kalina Krassnaja - Red Elderberry was screened at the 1975 Berlin International Film Festival in the competition for the FIPRESCI Prize, the Interfilm Prize and the OCIC Prize.
Web links
- Kalina Krasnaya - Sambucus racemosa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 72.
- ^ Review of Kalina Krassnaja by Renate Holland-Moritz in: Renate Holland-Moritz: Die Eule im Kino. Movie reviews . Eulenspiegel, Berlin 1981, pp. 128-129.
- ↑ Kalina Krassnaja - Red Elderberry. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de