“Alitet Goes into the Mountains” is a feature film based on the novel of the same name by Tikhon Semushkin .
| Alitet goes to the mountains | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Mark Donskoy |
| Author script | Tikhon Semushkin |
| In the main cast | Andrey Abrikosov Leo Sverdlin Boris Tenin Georgy Zhzhenov |
| Operator | Sergey Urusevsky |
| Composer | Leo Schwartz |
| Film company | Film Studio them. M. Gorky |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Tongue | |
| Year | 1949 |
| IMDb | ID 0041110 |
Content
Story
Before the revolution, the inhabitants of distant Chukotka were subjected to cruel exploitation. With the first Soviet ship, the authorized representative of the Kamchatka Revolutionary Committee Los and the ethnographer Zhukov arrived here. They were heading to the Loren camp. The news of the appearance of Russian people quickly flew around the coast. Overcoming the resistance of the American buyer Thomson and the local rich Alitet, Elk and Zhukov established fair trade laws and rallied poor hunters around them. The American colonialists Thomson and his son Frank fled from Chukotka. Alitet, who had left them rich, also left the camp. In the spring, a detachment of Soviet people arrived on the Chukchi coast to help the Chukchi build a new life on free land.
Cast
- Andrey Abrikosov - Nikita Sergeevich Elk, Commissioner of the Kamchatka Revolutionary Committee
- Leo Sverdlin - Chukchi Alitet
- Boris Tenin - Charlie Thomson
- Yuri Leonidov - Frank
- Muratbek Ryskulov - Vaal
- Zana Zanoni - Rultina
- Joachim Maximov-Koshkinsky - Shaman
- L. Turkin - Andrey Zhukov
- Nurmukhan Zhanturin - Tumatuge
- Kenenbai Kozhabekov - Aye
- Georgy Zhzhenov - episode
- Gulfayrus Ismailova - episode
- Vasily Bokarev - episode
- Vera Burlakova - episode
Camera crew
- Script writer - Tikhon Semushkin
- Director - Mark Donskoy
- Operator - Sergey Urusevsky
- Artist - David Vinitsky , Pyotr Pashkevich
- Composer - Leo Schwartz
Additional Information
Referring to the memories of Yuri Rytkheu Semyushkin, arguing that the writer in Chukotka “was Alitet himself”, and the prototype of the American entrepreneur Thompson in the novel “Alitet Goes into the Mountains” was the merchant Karpendel, Semushkin in many respects accurately recreates these characters. It should be added that the events themselves, apparently, were reflected quite truthfully by the writer: after all, his first visit to Chukotka in 1921 was connected with the creation of the first Soviet fur factories there, the history of which is narrated in the novel [1] .
The novel "Alitet Goes into the Mountains" has a rather complex genre structure, in which it is artistic, with a certain degree of poetic fiction, reflection of life that prevails. The general revolutionary pathos of the novel may have lost its relevance in our time. However, the work itself is valuable to this day not only because of its historical content, exotic themes, but also truly poetic content, which is reflected in the versatility of its composition [2] .
Interesting Facts
Willy Tokarev in the song "Sochi" also mentions Alitet: "Let him go to Alitet in the mountains."
Also mentioned in Yuri Kukin ’s song “Train”: “Or go to the mountains, like Alitet, every year.”
Notes
- ↑ Shprygov Yu. M. Prose of the morning land: literary crit. Essays. - Magadan: Prince Publishing House, 1985 .-- 102 p., pp. 25-30.
- ↑ Art. Yurina M. A. Genre specificity of the novel by T. Z. Semyushkin “Alitet goes to the mountains” // Collection. Department of Russian Philology and Journalism, Northeastern State University (Magadan), 2016, pp. 16-19.