Two Women (2014)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Dve schenschiny |
| Original title | Две женщины |
| Country of production | Russia |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vera Glagoleva |
| script | Svetlana Grudovich, Olga Pogodina |
| production | Natalia Ivanova, Laurent Danel, Antra Tsilinsky, Vera Glagoleva |
| music | Sergei Banevich |
| camera | Gints Berzins |
| occupation | |
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Two Women (Russian Две женщины) is a Russian feature film by Vera Glagoleva based on the play " A Month in the Country " by Ivan Turgenev .
The opulent and colorfully staged costume film , which was released in 2014, has so far only been shown at film festivals abroad and has not been dubbed in German.
content
The film takes place at the end of the 19th century on the estate of the wealthy landowner Arkady Islaev. Mikhail Rakitin, a neighbor and friend of the house, who is in love with the landlord's wife and who has long courted her in vain, returns to the estate after a month-long trip and notices that the mood in the house has changed. New to the house is the lively and attractive student Belyaev, who is supposed to look after the ten-year-old son of the house during the summer holidays and who is more entertaining and cheerful than the dry German educator Schaaf. From the first day, the boy and Belyaev get along well, they have fun, laugh and play together. Vera, a young girl who lives as a ward in the Islaev household, also takes part in her children's games, and she falls in love with the young man.
But Natalia Petrovna, the wife of the landlord, also succumbs to his charm. Bored of the business and conversations of her much older husband, she had put up with the respectful and reserved attentions from Rakitin. All of a sudden, her life is no longer boring: Under all sorts of pretexts, she seeks his closeness, stages "random" encounters and does not behave like a mature woman, but like a teenager in love. Rakitin watches the developing relationship with concern, jealousy and realizes that his own chances with Natalia are hopeless. In order to get rid of the unloved competitor, Natalia tries to couple young Vera to an older neighbor. A web of intrigue, jealousy, desires and unrequited love emerges between those involved. When the husband finally becomes suspicious, both Raikitin and Belyaev are forced to leave the estate. Natalia remains behind - in boredom - alone.
production
The film was shot in Russia. The production company was Horosho Production with the participation of the Russian GVI-Group, the French Rezo-production and JPS-Juris Podniers Studio, Riga ( Latvia ). It is the first Russian film adaptation of the play, of which there are 5 film versions in the UK alone.
The location was a classicist country estate in a village near Smolensk , which formerly belonged to the Russian composer Michail Glinka .
Glagoleva had seen Fiennes on stage for the first time in 1997 in Moscow during a guest performance at the Almeida Theater in London , in the title role of Ivanov in Chekhov 's play of the same name. She found his interpretation of the role to be “ absolutely perfect ”. During the shooting of Martha Fiennes ' film Onegin in 1998 in Moscow, she expressed the wish to make a film with Fiennes. Fiennes agreed, on condition that the film was financed.
Fiennes, who has spoken a little Russian since then, arrived in Russia two months before filming began and studied Russian intensively with a private language teacher. The language on the set was Russian. Although he had spoken all of his text in Russian, individual scenes of the film were dubbed in the Juris Podnieks studio in Riga in spring 2014 , as Fiennes insisted on speaking the text absolutely correctly. The post-production of the film also took place in Riga . In an interview with the Evening Standard , Fiennes later said it was tough to take on the role: Filmed in Russia and spoken in Russian, the film was then dubbed for the Russian audience. But then you dubbed the film a second time and now you can hear his [Fiennes] voice. "To be honest, I tried to grasp the feelings and the meanings, but linguistically he was full of mistakes and with a heavy accent." They struggled to achieve that: Now he is very relieved. It was a long, arduous journey.
The premiere of the film took place on November 23, 2014 in Poland at the Sputnik Russian Film Festival . The film had its BBC premiere on September 16, 2016 in London.
Material for the film
Material for the film, costumes, draft drawings, manuscripts and objects that were used in the film can be found in Moscow's Turgenev Museum, the so-called Maison Moumou . In 2014, the costumes of the film were shown in Moscow in an exhibition at the Pushkin Museum .
Awards (selection)
- 2014 Top Golden Vityaz Prize Awarded to Vera Glagoleva's “Two Women”
- 2014 Latvian National Film Festival, Best Cinematography by Gints Berzins, nomination
- 2015 Golden Jasmin Gints Berzins (best cinematographer)
- 2015 Golden Jasmin for the best screenplay
criticism
The Guardian critic attests that the film has a bittersweet, melancholy charm. Fiennes lends the figure of Mikhail with his repressed shame, his repressed grief and his repressed hope a dark and melancholy voice. He gives a performance of pale and demanding melancholy ( van and fastdious melancholy ) that was known from him before he shone in comic roles such as A Bigger Splash or Grand Budapest Hotel .
Web links
- Two Women in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Two women. By Vera Glagoleva. Engl., Russ.
- Vera Glagoleva: Turgenev's Language Is Endlessly Beautiful. Interview Vera Glogoleva with Anna Pozina and Oleg Karmunin. Russky Me
- Film review in The Hollywood Reporter
Individual evidence
- ^ Two Women, Festivals
- ↑ Two Women, film
- ↑ a b “Deux femmes” à Bougival Artcorusse , May 3, 2018, accessed on November 25, 2019
- ↑ Interview with Ilze Pole ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 10, 2015.
- ↑ Jim Bessman: Russian film adaptation of Turgenev with Ralph Fiennes, 'Two Women,' bows in NYC ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
- ↑ Interview with Ilze Pole ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 10, 2015.
- ^ Evening Standard September 14, 2016, accessed October 31, 2016.
- ^ Sochi International Film Awards, 2016
- ↑ Top Golden Vityaz Prize Awarded to Vera Glagoleva's “Two Women”, Russky Mir, June 2, 2015 , accessed December 10, 2015.
- ^ Tehran Times, October 10, 2015 , accessed December 9, 2015.
- ↑ Two Women review - Ralph Fiennes in bittersweet romantic intrigue The Guardian, September 15, 2016. Retrieved October 30, 2016
