Slave of love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Slave of love |
| Original title | Раба любви |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nikita Mikhalkov |
| script |
Friedrich Gorenstein Andrei Michalkow-Konschalowski |
| production | Mosfilm |
| music | Eduard Artemjew |
| camera | Pavel Lebeschew |
| cut | Lyudmila Yelyan |
| occupation | |
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Slave of Love is a 1976 Soviet feature film directed by Nikita Michalkow .
action
The silent film actress Olga Voznesenskaya has just celebrated a great success with her film and life partner Maksakow with the love tragedy Slave of Love . The film team goes from Moscow to Odessa during the Russian Civil War to work on a new film in the south. Olga is a difficult actress, partly over-the-top, partly lost in her own star world. Maksakov does not come to Odessa, so shooting has to be interrupted for the time being. Olga refused to shoot without her partner anyway, and the footage has run out. On the set, Olga meets the cameraman Viktor Pototski, with whom she soon falls in love. Fedotov, the head of counter-espionage for the White Guards , is also appearing more and more on the set, as Bolsheviks are arrested all over the country.
After a while, more actors and film directors appear from Moscow. With the new film material brought along, the shooting can continue. Maksakov didn't come with us, so he was replaced by another actor. Following the taste of the film audience, the silent film is now being expanded to include exotic elements. Olga rejects this development because, in Maksakov's opinion, it is no longer an art. When she runs over to a movie theater and announces that the film is a single lie, her admirers shower her with flowers and make her so mild.
One day, cameraman Viktor appears late and apparently drunk on the set. Shooting is interrupted when Fedotov disrupts work. He's looking for a cameraman among all the film crews present in Odessa who recently secretly filmed a shooting of revolutionaries. Viktor, who is really sober, confesses to Olga that he is the one wanted. The footage, in turn, is in his car. Olga manages to get the film to safety and she finds it exciting that what she did saved Viktor's life. At Viktor's invitation, she is present at the secret screening of the film a little later. It shows the shootings of insurgents after denunciations, the hunger of the refugees, the suffering of those who stayed behind. Olga is shocked and now refuses to work on the film.
Olga meets Viktor in a café and receives the film role from him, which she is supposed to keep for him until the evening. While leaving the café, Viktor is shot by Fedotov's men. Olga tries to hand the film over to Viktor's colleagues, but they don't seem to know her. In the evening, Fedotov appears at the film team, which tries to persuade the listless Olga to shoot the final suicide scene. All of a sudden, Viktor's comrades appear, shoot Fedotov and his men and take Olga and the film with them. Olga put her on a train and force the driver to take her to her hotel in the city center. The driver, however, throws himself out of the car while driving and alerts the White Guards that a revolutionary is sitting on the train. The guardsmen take up the chase on their horses and Olga insults the riders as beasts. The track and the rider disappear in the fog.
production
The slave of love came to the cinemas of the Soviet Union on September 27, 1976. It was shown in GDR cinemas on January 21, 1977 and first appeared on GDR television on July 21, 1977 on DFF 2 . The German theatrical release was on July 2, 1987, the German TV premiere on February 28, 1996 on arte . In December 2005, Icestorm released the film on DVD as part of the Russian Classics series .
Slave of Love refers to the life of the first great Russian film star Vera Cholodnaya , who died in Odessa in 1919 and, according to rumors, was a spy for the Bolsheviks at the end of her life. While large parts of the film were made as color films, Viktor's recordings show the deeds of the White Guards - some of them originals - in black and white. The silent film scenes with Olga and Maksakow , some of which can be seen as a film in a film during shots on the set and during cinema screenings , are also shown in black and white.
As early as 1972, Rustam Khamdamov wanted to film the life of Cholodnaya under the title Нечаянные радости, but shooting was canceled. Some of the costumes were taken over for the slave of love and the leading actress Jelena Solowei was cast again in the role of Cholodnaja in slave of love . The last scene of the film was re-dubbed for ideological reasons: In the original Voznesenskaya said to her pursuers - which you can also read from her lips - "I am not with them, I am with you", while in the new version she is her pursuers Calls beasts.
synchronization
The dialogue of the DEFA dubbing was written by Wolfgang Krüger, the direction was taken by Freimut Götsch .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Olga Voznesenskaya | Jelena Solowei | Evelyn Heidenreich |
| Viktor Pototski | Rodion Nachapetov | Jaecki Schwarz |
| Kalyagin | Alexander Kalyagin | Horst Drinda |
| Yushakov | Oleg Bassilashvili | Winfried Wagner |
| Fedotov | Konstantin Grigoryev | Wolf-Dieter Panse |
criticism
The film-dienst called Sklavin der Liebe “a variation on the theme of 'film within a film', which has a high entertainment value due to the lovingly nostalgic depiction of a bygone era and which subliminally encourages rethinking political partisanship; Well photographed, convincingly developed. ”“ Strong images, ”wrote Cinema .
Web links
- Slave of Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See rusactors.ru
- ↑ See imdb.com
- ↑ The slave of love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de .