Stepan's legacy

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Movie
German title Stepan's legacy
Original title Степанова памятка
(Stepanowa pamjatka)
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1977
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Konstantin Yershov
script Konstantin Jerschow
Gleb Panfilow
production Lenfilm
music Wadim Bibergan
camera Yevgeny Shapiro
occupation

Stepan's Legacy (original title: russian Степанова памятка , Stepanowa pamjatka ) is a Soviet fairy tale film by Konstantin Yershov from 1977.

action

While mowing a meadow, miner Stepan meets Xenia, the mistress of the copper mountain. They flirt with each other, but Xenia sends Stepan away. He is supposed to send unflattering greetings from her to the mine manager Severyan Nazarowitsch and instruct him to leave the mountain alone, otherwise she will sink the treasures so deep in the mountain that no one can find them. If Stepan follows her instructions verbatim, she will take him as her husband. Stepan does as he is told. Severjan has him captured, whipped and chained in the mountain tunnel. Here he should look for malachite . So that he doesn't starve to death in the mountain, he is given dog food. Xenia, however, lets rocks fall into the mountain, creating a hole in her realm through which Stepan comes to her. She bathes him, dresses him in precious robes and gives him food and drink. She shows him his future daughter, although Stepan is not even married, and her fortune, which she would bring into the marriage. Stepan confesses to her that his heart has already been given to Nastja. Xenia then lets him go, but gives him a magnificent necklace and headdress for his bride. A short time later, Stepan finds himself again in chains in the tunnel. He discovers an oversized chunk of malachite and is given freedom by the mine owner at his request. The malachite, however, is brought to Saint Petersburg and installed in a room in the Tsar's palace.

Stepan builds a house and marries Nastja a little later, with Xenia undetected among the celebrating women, but flees when Stepan sees her. Nastja becomes pregnant, but threatens to die in childbirth because she cannot bring her child into the world. It is the mistress of the copper mountain who saves Nastja and the child. Stepan's daughter, who is called Tanjuscha, is growing up to be a young girl and, like her father, is interested in the rocks of the forest. Stepan, on the other hand, is increasingly withdrawing to the forest alone to hunt, but never shoots game. In reality, he meets with Xenia. When Tanyusha arrives one day and attacks Xenia, Stepan pretends to shoot himself. Xenia breaks off the relationship. Stepan has also been a broken, sick man since then. Tanyusha has grown into a young woman and when Stepan asks his wife to put on the jewelry of the mistress of the Copper Mountain, Tanyusha appears with the jewelry instead. Stepan happily begins a dance and realizes that his daughter is an adult. Then he goes to bed and dies.

In winter, the rich young man Vasily appears in the village and gets into a snowball fight, where he is hit by a snowball thrown by Tanyusha. He falls in love with Tanjuscha, whose eye color is as indefinable as that of the mistress of the Kupferberg. He advertises Tanyusha to Nastja, but Tanjuscha first wants to see the Malachitz room in the Tsar's palace before deciding on his application. Vasily brings Tanyusha to Saint Petersburg and she appears in the palace in the jewelry of the Lady of the Copper Mountain. Vasili's family is against the improper relationship with the peasant girl, and Vasily dutifully hides from Tanjuscha. She visits the Malachite room and enthusiastically strokes the stone walls. The tsarina appears to look at Tanyusha. Tanyusha accuses her of not being worthy of the rock that her father recovered and the tsarina wants to have her thrown out of the palace. Tanjuscha then begins to sink into the malachite until only her necklace and headdress remain on the stone. The court society rushes out of the hall because of the witchcraft. A little later Tanjuscha is sitting at the dining table with her mother and her little brother. They calmly drink tea.

production

Stepan's legacy is based on legends and stories from the Urals, which Pavel Bashov had compiled in the volume The Chest of Malachite (Малахитовая шкатулка). As early as 1946, Baschow's stories in the fairy tale film The Stone Flower were filmed.

Filming for Stepan's Legacy took place in 1976. The film premiered on January 31, 1977 in the Soviet Union. The film was released in GDR cinemas on December 16, 1977, and on August 14, 1979 it was shown for the first time on DFF 1 on GDR television. Icestorm released the film on DVD in January 2005 as part of the series The most beautiful fairy tale classics in Russian film history .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on publication on kinopoisk.ru ; accessed on December 27, 2017.