Young Forest ( Polish: Młody las ) is a Polish black and white feature film directed by Józef Leites. Filmed in 1934. The script is based on the play by Jan Adolf Herz .
| Young forest | |
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| Młody las | |
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Jozef Leites |
| Author script | Anatole Stern , Jozef Leites , Jan Adolf Herz |
| In the main cast | Adam Broadzish Maria Bogda Saturnin Zhuravsky |
| Operator | Albert Reconciliation |
| Composer | Roman Palestster Marian Noiteich |
| Film company | Libkow-film |
| Duration | 71 min |
| A country |  Poland |
| Tongue | Polish |
| Year | 1934 |
| IMDb | ID 0280954 |
Content
Story
The film is dedicated to the student strike during the revolutionary events of 1905 in Poland . The administration of the gymnasium decides to expel Jan Valchak (Tsibulsky) from the school for having entered into a dispute with a professor who, from the point of view of the young man, exaggerated the role of the Russian commander Alexander Suvorov in history. He can only be left on a public humiliating apology.
Against the backdrop of developing pre-revolutionary events and direct armed confrontation with the police, teens will learn the price of true friendship and love.
1905 year. In Poland, in the Warsaw state Russian gymnasium. With great veracity and satirical power, the picture is shown by the gymnasium authorities, such as the Peredonovs in their uniforms buttoned up to all buttons. They are opposed by the gymnasium youth, gathering in clandestine circles, fighting, bound by the spirit of camaraderie, ultimately going out into the street, victoriously exchanging fire with the police.
- Adrian Piotrovsky “Towards the Results of the Moscow Film Festival ” [1]
Cast
- Adam Broadzish - Stefan Kernitsky, son of a school inspector
- Maria Bogda - Wanda of Lithuania, beloved of Stephen
- Saturnin Zhuravsky - Yurek, Stephen's brother
- Stefan Yarach - Stephen's father
- Mechislav Tsibulsky - Jan Valchak
- Jerzy Kobush - student
- Tadeusz Fievsky - student
- Zbigniew Kochanovich - student
- Michal Znich - Professor of French
- Victor Begansky - Professor Zhevakov
- Vitold Zakharevich - May
- Kazimierz Youth-Stempovsky - Professor Pakotin
- Boguslav Samborsky - Director Starogranadzky
- Thekla Trapsho - Valchakova
- Jozef Orvid - a drunkard
- Maria Balcerkevichuvna
- Amelia Rotter-Yarninskaya
- Felix Zhukovsky
- Pavel Overllo and others
Reviews
In Russian-language criticism, the picture has conflicting, often polar reviews. Vsevolod Pudovkin notes in the tape "skillful work with actors, a great sense of rhythm in editing, undoubtedly the presence of humor combined with good taste" [2] . Although he further indicates that the presence of a number of talented scenes did not form the significance of the work of art as a whole.
Adrian Piotrovsky from the ideological and political positions of the USSR of the 1930s in the notes “Towards the Results of the Moscow Film Festival” calls the film “interesting”, but considers it frankly nationalistic and deceitful [1] :
In the name of what is this whole underground struggle being waged? As the authors of Polish films try to assure us, solely in the name of the ideals of Polish nationalism. “ White Eagle ” and the anthem “Even Poland has not disappeared” unite all these young people in a single impulse. <...> Thus, fascist film deliberately and frankly falsifies the history of the film, falsifies social truth. So the picture seeks to educate today's Polish youth in the warlike rules of rabid nationalism.
Estimates of Soviet historians and art historians of the second half of the 20th century are more neutral. The film is called one of Poland’s most significant film productions, created by “some of the most gifted and skilled directors of inter-war cinema,” influenced by both Soviet cinema and progressive Western European cinema [3] [4] .
Rewards
- The best film of 1934 according to a survey of the Polish weekly publication "Kino" [5] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Piotrovsky A.I. Theater. Movie. Life / Comp. and preparation. text Akimova A.A., total. ed. Dobin E. S .. - L .: Art, 1969. - 511 p.
- ↑ Pudovkin V.I. Collected Works in three volumes. Volume 2. - Art, 1974. p. 179
- ↑ History of Poland. Volume 3 .. - Institute of Slavic Studies (USSR Academy of Sciences), 1958.
- ↑ Vagapova N.M., Rostotsky B.I., Rubanova I.I. (All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Art History). The development of socialist art in the countries of Central and Southeast Europe, 1933-1939. - Science, 1983 .-- 380 p.
- ↑ Młody las in the base of Filmwebu (Polish)