Strannye ljudi. Tri rasskaza / Странные люди / [Outoa väkeä] / [Udda folk]. SU 1969. PC: Gorky Studios. D+SC: Vasili Shukshin - based on his short stories "Bratka", "Rokovoi vystrel" / "Mille pardons, Madame!", and "Dumy". SC: Valeri Ginzburg - b&w - Sovscope. M: Karen Hatshaturjan with many folk songs. Special song: "Skazanie o dvenadtsati razboinikah" ["The Tale of the Twelve Robbers"] (comp. Nikolai Manykin-Nevstrujev, poem: Nikolai Nekrasov), perf. Fjodor Shaljapin (Chaliapin), rec. 1932. Loc: Vladimir (in the heart of Russia). Cast: BRATKA: Sergei Nikonenko (Vasili Knjazhev, Vashka), Jevgeni Jevstignejev (Vasili's brother), Lidia Fedosejeva (Lidia Nikolajevna), Galina Bulkina (Vashka's wife). ROKOVOI VYSTREL: Jevgeni Lebedev (Bronka Pupkov), Ljubov Sokolova (Bronka's wife). DUMY: Vsevolod Sanajev (Matvei Rjazantsev), Jelena Sanajeva (Lena), Juri Skop (the blacksmith Kolka), Pentelejmon Krymov (the old teacher). 99 min. Print: Gosfilmofond. E-subtitles by Pentti Stranius, operated by Tuulia Lehtonen. Viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 20 August 2009.
A print with a fine definition of light. - An episodic masterpiece revisited. The fullness of the feeling for life in the songs and the imagery. - BRATKA: the meeting of the brothers at Jalta, Chekhov's home-museum seen in one scene. The song started by Lidia. - THE FATAL SHOT: the hunter's guide's livslögn (life-lie) about the assassination of Hitler, Jevgeni Lebedev's great performance. - DUMY: one of the high points in Shukshin's oeuvre. The deep anxiety of Matvei, the chairman of the village. The bottomless sorrow of his daughter. The history of the Soviet Union. The new dance of the pop era. The electrifying wake-up sound of Shaljapin's song. The blacksmith throws his wood statue of Stenka Razin into the fire.
Nikolai Nekrasov's poem is from Komu na Rusi zhit horosho (Who Is Happy in Russia, 1876), from its chapter O dvuh velikih greshnikah.
http://az.lib.ru/n/nekrasow_n_
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.karaoke.ru/catalog/song/4641 (the lyrics of Shaljapin's solo parts)
Thanks to Lauri Piispa for identifying the song and the poem and providing these links.
Nikolai Nekrasov's poem is beyond the jump break:
A print with a fine definition of light. - An episodic masterpiece revisited. The fullness of the feeling for life in the songs and the imagery. - BRATKA: the meeting of the brothers at Jalta, Chekhov's home-museum seen in one scene. The song started by Lidia. - THE FATAL SHOT: the hunter's guide's livslögn (life-lie) about the assassination of Hitler, Jevgeni Lebedev's great performance. - DUMY: one of the high points in Shukshin's oeuvre. The deep anxiety of Matvei, the chairman of the village. The bottomless sorrow of his daughter. The history of the Soviet Union. The new dance of the pop era. The electrifying wake-up sound of Shaljapin's song. The blacksmith throws his wood statue of Stenka Razin into the fire.
Nikolai Nekrasov's poem is from Komu na Rusi zhit horosho (Who Is Happy in Russia, 1876), from its chapter O dvuh velikih greshnikah.
http://az.lib.ru/n/nekrasow_n_
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.karaoke.ru/catalog/song/4641 (the lyrics of Shaljapin's solo parts)
Thanks to Lauri Piispa for identifying the song and the poem and providing these links.
Nikolai Nekrasov's poem is beyond the jump break:
