Pischka
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Pishka Пышка |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1934 |
| length | 70 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mikhail Romm |
| script | Mikhail Romm |
| production | Mosfilm |
| music | Mikhail Chulaki |
| camera | Boris Woltschek |
| occupation | |
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Pischka , based on the novel Boule de suif (fat dumplings) by Guy de Maupassant , is a late Soviet silent film that Mikhail Romm released in 1934.
action
France in 1870, at the time of the Franco-Prussian War . A stagecoach is on its way from the war zone to unoccupied France. Among the guests is a prostitute named Elizabeth Rousset, who is always called “boule de suif”, or “fat dumplings”. This is cut by fellow travelers, including nuns as well as aristocrats and representatives of the bourgeoisie, and suspected with great reluctance. When the carriage stopped briefly and was checked by a Prussian officer, the latter tried to persuade the whore to do a “quick number”. Since “Fettklößchen” is a patriot who loves her home and the Prussian officer is a hated “Boche” from enemy territory, Elizabeth refuses to accept his request.
The German officer now begins to use his power and prevents the carriage from continuing. Suddenly all of the fellow travelers feign interest in the “fat dumplings” they so ardently despised shortly before and try to persuade the whore to give in to the enemy's insistence on a lunchtime so that things can finally go on. Elizabeth finally gives in, but when the journey continues on the following day, the old, hostile behavior of the bourgeois hypocrites is back, and the "decent" citizens are soon opening their mouths at the allegedly oh-so-“shameless creature”. A representative of the enemy country, of all people, is the only one who has a friendly gesture ready for the French woman who is ready to make sacrifices: a young German soldier who accompanied the carriage hands “Fettklößchen” a loaf of bread.
Production notes
Fettklößchen celebrated its premiere on September 15, 1934 in Moscow. There was probably no German screening before 1945. The first demonstrable presentation of the film took place on January 6, 1968 in the third channel of WDR television.
This film, supposedly the last silent film in the country, was also the first Soviet cinematographic work to use film material made exclusively in its own country. as French film critic Georges Sadoul reported in 1957 in the History of Film Art published in Vienna on page 298.
Reviews
"In his first work, Romm succeeded in creating a masterful satire that is superbly balanced in terms of its imagery and rhythm."
In the lexicon of the international film it says: "Formally effective, carefully composed Mikhail Romm's film ..., at the same time an anti-capitalist satire, whose wickedness, exaggerated into the absurd, is canceled out again."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pischka. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 24, 2018 .
Web links
- Pischka in the Internet Movie Database (English)