Sadko's adventure

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Movie
German title Sadko's adventure
Original title Садко
(Sadko)
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1953
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Alexander Ptushko
script Konstantin Isaev
production Mosfilm
music Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Vissarion Schebalin
camera Fyodor Provorov
occupation

Sadko's adventure (alternative title: Alluring luck , Sadko, the vagabond ; original title: russian Садко , Sadko ) is a Soviet fairy tale film by Alexander Ptuschko from 1953. It is based on motifs from the popular Russian saga of Sadko , who also wrote Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimsky-Korsakov dedicated a tone painting and an opera .

action

The poor gusli player and singer Sadko arrives in the great city of Novgorod . After meeting the beautiful girl Ljubawa, who becomes his lover, he goes to the market and sees the suffering of the poor, whom he promises to seek happiness, which in a distant land should soar as a bird high in the air. Later he goes to an inn, where the merchants of the city pour their wealth on. He asks her to give him some money so that he can build ships, so that he can sail the world with them and thus increase his and her property. It would also bring fame to the city itself and he would look for the lucky bird. However, they refuse his proposal, whereupon he leaves the tavern depressed and plays a song to himself on the shores of Lake Ilmen in the lonely night . Ilmen, the daughter of the sea king, overhears him and falls in love. She comforts him and offers her help by trying to drive him the precious gold feather fish in the morning. Sadko then goes back to the merchants and makes a bet with them. All of their goods should be his in case he caught the wonderful fish. He succeeds, but in the enthusiasm of victory he distributes all goods to the people without thinking of his actual plan to find happiness. Then the sea daughter helps him again and transforms his last three gold feather fish into a mountain of gold. So he has three permanent ships built, says goodbye to his Ljubawa and sails out into the blue sea together with the merchant's son Kusma, the clever Trifon, the bear-killer Wyschata, some other daring warriors and the boy Iwaschka.

Arrived on a distant island, the companions meet the rough Vikings , who ask them about the lucky bird. However, they are unhappy with the strangers and start a fight. The attack can be repulsed and the adventurers decide to look for the bird elsewhere.

The years go by and the seekers arrive in India , where they hear of a phoenix bird singing the song of happiness. It is said to be in a castle, in a golden tower, behind seven walls. By winning a game of chess , the warrior can wrest the phoenix from the prince of the empire and he and his men are shown the way up to the golden tower. At the top, the bird tries to put the warriors into a deep sleep with his song, but the gusli player can withstand the enchanting words and wakes his companions with loud play on his instrument. Even the phoenix does not turn out to be the bird of luck, so they put it in a sack and want to continue searching. The prince, meanwhile, sends his men into the tower, believing that the strangers have fallen asleep. However, the prince's troops are repulsed, whereupon a huge enemy army forms in front of the golden tower. Then the warriors let the singing phoenix out of the sack and the men and war elephants of the prince fall into a deep sleep.

Escape, they sail on through the world and reach the pyramids and the Sphynx in Egypt . There the hero remembers his lover and it becomes clear to him that he should not seek happiness in distant lands, but must find it at home. You set sail and head home. On the high seas, however, a violent storm hits them - The King of the Sea takes its toll. Sadko sacrifices himself and jumps overboard. Once at the bottom of the sea, he finds the Sea King with his wife in an azure blue castle and serenades them. The sea kings ask to marry their daughter Ilmen, but she renounces Sadko and helps him to escape because she knows how difficult unfulfilled love is. She leaves him an unassailable seahorse and the warrior sets off for Novgorod, where his Lyubava is waiting for him. The three ships finally arrive. The hero announces to the people that he has found happiness - with us it is.

production

Sadko was created in 1952 and was published in the Soviet Union on January 5, 1953 . The film ran on May 7, 1953 under the title Lockendes Glück in the GDR cinemas and was shown for the first time on September 8, 1953 on GDR 1 on GDR television. The German processing was done by DEFA . On November 26, 1958, the film came under the title Sadkos Abenteuer in the cinemas of the Federal Republic of Germany .

In 1986 a new version of the film was released in the USSR, in which the image material was restored while the soundtrack was completely replaced and re-dubbed. In the US the film was shown as "The Magic Voyage of Sinbad" to benefit from the success of "7th Voyage of Sinbad".

criticism

"The old Russian legend of the singer who goes out into the world in search of happiness and ultimately finds it in his homeland, as a gaudy, naive fairytale film."

- Lexicon of international film

Award

At the Venice International Film Festival , the film received the Silver Lion in 1953.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Sadko's adventures in the dictionary of international filmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used .
  2. ↑ Information on publication on kino-teatr.ru