Lenin in Paris
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Lenin in Paris |
| Original title | Ленин в Париже |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sergei Yutkevich |
| script |
Yevgeny Gabrilowitsch Sergei Yutkewitsch |
| music | Grigori Frid |
| camera | Nikolai Nemolyayev |
| occupation | |
The film Lenin in Paris ( Russian Ленин в Париже / Lenin w Parishe ) was made in 1981 under the direction of Sergei Jutkewitsch. Yuri Kajurow , Claude Jade , Vladimir Antonik and Valentina Swetlowa played the main roles
action
As a scientific-utopian experimental film and historical film, it tells of Lenin's time in Paris , when he emigrated from Russia in 1911 and gave Bolsheviks political training in the suburb of Longjumeau . During this time Lenin's relationship with Inès Armand began . In the film, “Inessa”, Lenin's mistress in real life, becomes the mistress of the fictional hero Trofimov. The censors had rejected the first draft to show the true love story between Lenin and Inès Armand. In this respect Trofimov is Lenin's deputy at Inessa.
There are some scenes that escaped censorship. That's how Lenin and Inessa talk on a bench. At a concert, Trofimov confessed his love to Inessa in Lenin's presence and the direct reference escaped censorship.
Jutkewitsch uses filmic elements of silent film, slapstick, animation and paintings, some of them representational and abstract. The time levels change permanently to the present, to the year 1910 and the time of the French Revolution.
The film with the theme of his love story begins with the arrival of Alexander Trofimov (Vladimir Antonik) in Paris. He wants to meet Lenin in the Rue Marie-Rose. Instead, he meets Inessa Armand (Claude Jade) there. While walking, Trofimov and Inessa witness a shooting. Inessa takes Trofimov to the "Hotel Mimi", where the young Bolshevik finds quarters. One day, Inessa is teaching Trofimov French vocabulary, an old woman is selling red carnations. Some of them are white. Again and again, also in the carnation element, the time levels change: from 1910 to the French Revolution and to the present of the late 1970s. Trofimov becomes faint. Inessa takes care of him in his hotel room. Even Lenin (Yuri Kayurov) visited the sick. Lenin also visits Karl Marx 's daughter Laura and her husband Paul Lafargue. Trofimov, Inessa, Lenin and his wife Nadeschda Krupskaja (Walentina Swetlowa) attend a concert by Montéhus and join the singing. The four then accompany the recently deceased suicidal couple Paul and Laura Lafargue to their funeral in the Père Lachaise cemetery . In the end, Trofimov confesses his love to Inessa. She gives him a silhouette of her profile. In the voiceover it is said that Trofimov later fell.
Reviews
"Again, Sergej Jutkewitsch bypasses censorship and formalism. His film is largely set up as an experiment. Episodes are built up, film material from the 1920s, masterpieces of painting are inserted and a chain of associations in poetic visual language and elegiac tone emerges. The past and Truffaut star Claude Jade plays Inessa Armand with the interwoven present and refined elegance. " (Aleksandr Fedorov, Kinoteatr)
backgrounds
"Lenin in Paris" received the special prize of the Venice International Film Festival in 1981.
"Lenin in Paris" had its first German broadcast on April 22, 1982 on GDR television.
Web links
- Lenin in Paris in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- DVDtoile: "Lenin in Paris"; Photo: Vladimir Antonik and Claude Jade
- "Lenin in Paris" page on Claude Jade's blog
- Page to the film "Lenin in Paris - Ленин в Париже"