“Sing a song, poet ...” is a Soviet feature film directed by Sergei Urusevsky , consisting of short stories and illustrating the life and career of the poet Sergei Yesenin . The film was shot in 1971 . It was released in March 1973.
| Sing a song, poet ... | |
|---|---|
| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Sergey Urusevsky |
| Author script | Gennady Shpalikov Sergey Urusevsky |
| In the main cast | Sergey Nikonenko |
| Operator | Sergey Urusevsky |
| Composer | Kirill Molchanov |
| Film company | "Mosfilm" film studio , "Comrade" creative association |
| Duration | 77 minutes |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Tongue | Russian |
| Year | 1971 |
| IMDb | ID 0194382 |
Content
Contents
The film is built at the intersection of the facts of the biography of Sergei Yesenin and fragments of his literary works (poems, poems " Anna Snegina "). The image of the poet and his lyrical hero is connected scenarios.
The film contains fragments from the following works (listed in order of appearance):
- s: Who am I? What am I? Only a dreamer (Yesenin)
- s: Letter to a woman (Yesenin)
- s: We are leaving a little now (Yesenin)
- s: Black man (Yesenin)
- s: Tanyusha was good, was not more beautiful in the village (Yesenin)
- s: My way (Yesenin)
- s: Wake me up early tomorrow (Yesenin)
- s: Low house with blue shutters (Yesenin)
- s: Confession of a bully (Yesenin)
- s: Anna Snegina (Yesenin)
- s: I won’t lie to myself (Yesenin)
- s: Do not look at me reproachfully (Yesenin)
- s: Lenin (Yesenin)
- s: Untold, blue, tender (Yesenin)
- s: Country of villains (Yesenin) / Part Two
- s: Sleeping feather grass. Plain dear (Yesenin)
- s: I've never been to the Bosphorus (Yesenin)
- s: Shagane, you are mine, Shagane! (Yesenin)
- s: In Horossan there are such doors (Yesenin)
- s: Light forest. Steppe and Dali (Yesenin)
- s: Homecoming (Yesenin)
- s: Letter from mother (Yesenin)
- s: Answer (Yesenin)
- s: Soviet Russia (Yesenin)
- s: I do not regret, I do not call, I do not cry (Yesenin)
Cast
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Filming
According to the memoirs of Natalia Uzhviy , the director, the cameraman Sergei Urusevsky, sought to ensure that each of the participants in the picture was imbued with Yesenin's worldview. To immerse themselves in the poet’s atmosphere of life, the film crew went to the native village of Yesenin, Konstantinovo, Ryazan Region , and visited the poet’s sister, Alexandra Alexandrovna [1] .
Reviews
... director S. Urusevsky made a daring attempt, perhaps unparalleled in the entire history of cinema: he decided to talk about the poet, holding not the canvas of life, but the canvas of his work.
Yesenin's name seemed to facilitate this task - in the verses of this openly confessional poet, vital, autobiographical motifs are recognized even with the naked eye. And the early scandals in snobbish salons, and the life in the village of the first post-revolutionary years, and the pilgrimage, say, to the oriental East or industrial America - all these facts of the biography were easily and naturally melted into the facts of poetry. <...> Poems sound like dialogues of characters, poems are taken as remarks and expanded into landscape or decorative delights, finally, poems just sound from behind the frame, commenting, and sometimes duplicating the image.
- film critic Viktor Dyomin , magazine "Sputnik cinema viewer", March 1973
Literature
- Uzhviy N. M. "Films, friends, years." M .: 1977.
- Cinema Viewer Satellite Magazine, March 1973. Article by film critic Viktor Dyomin
Notes
- ↑ Uzhviy N. “Films, friends, years.” M .: 1977. Natalia Uzhviy "Mother Yesenin"
Links
- “Sing a song, poet ...” on the Mosfilm website
- “Sing a song, poet ...” (inaccessible link) on Russiancinema
- "Sing a song, poet ..." on Ruskino.ru
- " Sing a song, poet ... " (English) on the Internet Movie Database