“My Silver Ball” (in 1994-2003 - “The Silver Ball” ) is a Russian documentary program dedicated to interesting and outstanding people of art, both living and already deceased [2] . The author and permanent host of the program is Vitaly Wulf [3] . It was released from 1994 to 2010. At different times it was broadcast by three television channels in series: first on Ostankino’s 1st channel , then on ORT and finally on Rossiya-1 .
| My silver ball | |
|---|---|
 Screensaver of the program ( Russia , 2003—2010) | |
| Genre | documentary biographical program |
| The authors) | Vladislav Listyev [1] Vitaly Wolf |
| Director (s) | Elena Gudieva Svetlana Kokotunova |
| Production | VID (1994-2003) MB-group (2003—2010) |
| Presenter (s) | Vitaly Wolf |
| Starter topic | Dmitry Fedoseev (1994-1997) P.I. Tchaikovsky. "Seasons". Autumn Song (2003—2010) |
| Country of Origin |  Russia |
| Tongue | Russian |
| Number of seasons | 18 |
| Production | |
| Producer (s) | Andrey Razbash (2001-2003) Margot Krzhizhevskaya (2003—2010) [1] |
| Executive Producer (s) | Tatyana Ivanova (1997-1999) Ella Komarova (1999-2003) Nikita Shumakov (2003-2007) Ruslan Boytsov (2007—2010) |
| Program Manager (s) | Vladislav Listyev (1994-1995) |
| Location |  Moscow |
| Duration | 50-55 minutes (with advertising) |
| Broadcasting | |
| TV Channel (s) | Channel 1 Ostankino (1994-1995) ORT / Channel One (1995-2003) Russia (2003—2010) |
| Image format | 4: 3 |
| Sound format | Monophony |
| Broadcast Period | September 29, 1994 - July 26, 2010 |
| Premiere Impressions | 1994 - 2010 Channel 1 Ostankino , ORT, Channel One , Russia |
| Repeat impressions | 2009 2010 — present Time |
| Chronology | |
| Subsequent Transmissions | 20 years later. Vitaly Wulf ( Culture ) |
| Similar programs | In search of the lost , To be remembered , Quiet house |
| References | |
From the very beginning of the existence of the program, its symbol was a ball of silver - a symbol of creative thought . He stood on a pedestal in the studio, next to Wulf.
Content
About the program
The idea of the transfer belongs to Vladislav Listyev and Vitaly Wulf, when Listyev invited Wulf in June 1994 to go to the VID television company [4] . Prior to this, since 1990, the Wolfe team has been making documentaries , the first of which was dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Maria Babanova .
The first release of the permanent program took place on September 29, 1994 on the 1st channel of Ostankino , and it was simply called “Silver Ball” [5] and was dedicated to actor Sergei Martinson [6] . During the period from autumn 1994 to 2000, Wulf made 65 programs of this cycle, which he described in an interview [7] . By 2010, the total number of issues has already exceeded 200 [8] .
In 1997, Vitaly Wulf left the staff of the VID television company and subsequently began to transmit as an ORT employee [6] .
In May 2003, Wolfe decided to leave Channel One - recently, his program began to appear only once a month, and also often left the broadcast network for various reasons [9] .
| Recently, I went on the air very rarely. I sometimes asked the program directorate about this. They answered me: there should be hockey , here is football . Okay. And on May 24, I was supposed to have a program about the Block . And they told me that there would be no Bloc, that it was postponed to June. I wrote a letter of resignation of my own free will, and for exactly a month and a half Ernst did not sign it. Then I wrote him a short letter, in my opinion, very polite. It ended with the words: “I close the Silver Ball.” I think this will not upset you, but only facilitate your already nervous life. Friendly located to you Vitaly Wolf » [10] . |
The broadcast of the program about Alexander Blok subsequently took place on June 7, 2003 [11] . A month later, on July 5 (at that time Wulf had already left Channel One), there was a replay of the anniversary, 100th, release of the program with the subtitle “Persons of the 20th Century”, originally aired in April, which became the last broadcast of “The Silver Ball” on the first button [12] [13] [14] .
On July 1, 2003, Wulf became a full-time employee of the FSUE State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company “ TV Channel Russia ” [6] , after which, from September 2003, the program began to appear on this channel, having undergone some changes. The program became known as “My Silver Ball” (since the rights to use the name “Silver Ball” were assigned to the BID TV Company and Channel One ), MB-group became its producer. From 2004 to 2010, the program also appeared on Radio Russia . The frequency of the program’s broadcasting was increased on Rossiya: instead of one broadcast per month, as it was on Channel One, My Silver Ball went on a weekly basis seven times a month (two premieres and five repetitions) on Rossiya ) [15] . “There is a different atmosphere, a different attitude, and I feel it. I am very grateful to Oleg Dobrodeev for this, ”said Wulf about this period of work [15] .
Characters
At different times, the characters of the television show were Grace Kelly , Evgeny Evstigneev [16] , Tatyana Doronina , Olga Knipper-Chekhova , Marlene Dietrich , Greta Garbo , Vivien Leigh , Audrey Hepburn , Francoise Sagan , Oleg Dal , Faina Ranevskaya , Tatyana Peltzer and others. Vitaly Wulf was personally acquainted with most of the heroes of his program [17] . In September 2003, a program release was released dedicated to its author, Vlad Listyev (the same issue is the first to be released on "Russia") [18] . In 2005, one of the issues of the program was dedicated to the anniversary of Vitaly Wolfe. The hero of the last program was Alexei Serebryakov .
The programs used rare materials from the family archives of one or another hero of the program. For his programs, Vitaly Wulf used a very unusual musical background, creating a tone for a particular issue. So, in the issue dedicated to Vladislav Listyev, the gloomy and tragic compositions “When the Walls Fell” (group “ Mastermind ”) and “Stealth Mass In F # M” (group “ Apollo 440 ”) were used, and in the issue about Alexander Demyanenko on the contrary, the comic composition “I Am” (group “ Army of Lovers ”).
Criticism
Some films from the cycle have been criticized for subjectivity. So, a film about Vladislav Listyev was negatively evaluated:
| However, there was an ugly attempt to advance the interpretation of the biography of the deceased, which was beneficial to the widow, and such an attempt was made by the program “My silver ball. Vlad Listyev ”(“ Russia ”, September 15, 2003): Vitaly Wolf, in addition to his trademark“ yak ”and demonstration of incompetence, was only able to voice the theses that Albina Nazimova gently throws to those journalists who are interested in the fate of her glorious spouse [19] . |
Nevertheless, the program was very loved by viewers and for the most part had positive reviews:
| And what, in fact, in this program? A man sits without a tie in a small, darkened studio, almost no scenery, tells, shows newsreels, recalls personal meetings ... That's all. Neither expensive " news rooms " nor sophisticated filming or editing. <...> The Silver Ball quickly became a given of modern culture and an achievement of our television, almost immediately. The merit of Wolfe and his staff is obvious. But ten years later, you begin to realize their luck a little differently. These are not only live stories about events and people, but rather a whole stretch of our spiritual culture, taken not linearly, but stereoscopically: he has very different characters, including those against whom there was a universal conspiracy of silence (for example, Tatyana Doronina ) . He has different times - the Moscow Art Theater of 1930-1940s and Sovremennik today. Finally, he has different directions: Russian ballet and American cinema. And more recently, there has also been an area of politics - Stalin , Churchill , Mussolini . For someone it would all be colorful. Wolfe is associated with a personal perception of the realities of today's world and its true values [20] . |
Close
In November 2010, a few months before his death, Vitaly Wolf decided to close the program. The reasons for this could be Wulf’s disease, his work on the radio "Culture", as well as the lack of bright modern representatives of theater and cinema, about which Wulf would like to talk about [21] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 One hundred and fifty silver balls . Echo of Moscow (September 11, 2005).
- ↑ REPLICA. Remembering, do not compromise! . Arguments and Facts (April 26, 1995).
- ↑ One of the last interviews of Vitaly Wolfe on “Echo” . Echo of Moscow (April 20, 2008).
- ↑ The famous art critic and presenter Vitaly Wolf Passed away . Vesti.ru (March 14, 2011).
- ↑ Putin changed the life of Wolfe (inaccessible link) . Jewish (May 1, 2009). Archived on January 8, 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Vitaly WOLF // There are no happy people . The Case (October 23, 2006).
- ↑ An ocean named Wulf . Arguments and Facts (March 15, 2000).
- ↑ Vitaly Wolf: “My life has changed dramatically more than once” . Arguments and Facts (May 19, 2010).
- ↑ The Silver Ball burst . Interlocutor (May 28, 2003). Archived on June 10, 2003.
- ↑ "Silver Ball" in the new pocket . Interlocutor (September 24, 2003).
- ↑ TV Show on Saturday, June 7, 2003 . First channel.
- ↑ NEWS FROM TV CHANNELS . New newspaper (April 7, 2003).
- ↑ "SILVER BALL" HAS BEEN RUNNING . Moscow News (July 2003).
- ↑ TV Program: Saturday, July 5 . Kommersant (July 5, 2003).
- ↑ 1 2 Vitaly WOLF: “I always do only what I want” . Arguments and Facts (May 23, 2005).
- ↑ W. Woolf: “Do not tell me!” . Arguments and Facts (October 6, 2004).
- ↑ The host of “My Silver Ball” Vitaly Wulf . Komsomolskaya Pravda (March 13, 2011).
- ↑ dissenting opinion . Echo of Moscow (September 15, 2003).
- ↑ NTV VS VLAD LEAVES. NOT "ALREADY" BUT "MORE": "Review, Special Issue, TV" Matveeva Olesya Publishing House "New Look"
- ↑ TV. And yet he spins. The 10th anniversary of the Silver Ball program . Literary newspaper (October 6, 2004).
- ↑ Wulf left, but promises to return . Interlocutor (November 30, 2010).
Literature
- Fedor Razzakov . The splendor and poverty of Russian TV. Book 2. Secrets of television. From Yeltsin to Medvedev. 1992-2008. - M .: Eksmo, 2009 .-- 592 p. - ISBN 978-5-699-33297-7 .
Links
- List and video of some issues on the channel website Russia
- Online Issues
- Pyanzina I.V., Tsapyuk N.V. Television memoirs on modern Russian television (using the Silver Ball and The Other Day programs as an example) [Electronic resource] // Ogarev-online. Section "Philology". - 2015. - No. 19.
- My silver ball , Around TV Portal