“Sorrowful insensibility” is a feature film shot by director Alexander Sokurov according to the script by Yuri Arabov in 1983 - 1986 . It was released on a wide screen in December 1987 (the credits indicate 1986 ).
| Mournful insensibility | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Alexander Sokurov |
| Author script | Yuri Arabov |
| In the main cast | Ramaz Chkhikvadze Alla Osipenko Irina Sokolova Tatyana Egorova |
| Operator | Sergey Yurizditsky |
| Film company | Lenfilm |
| Duration | 110 minutes |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Language | |
| Year | 1986 |
| IMDb | ID 0124127 |
According to the plot, the film is a free fantasy based on Bernard Shaw ’s “ Houses Where Hearts Are Broken ”, also fantasy plays “in the Russian style on English themes”. The name of the movie is a literal translation of a medieval medical diagnosis : lat. Anaesthesia dolorosa :
“The name of this film is taken from the field of medicine. As a director, I made a film about mournful insensibility - a disease that only a person suffers from. <...> About how difficult it is to distinguish and feel the line beyond which people cease to be ill with human diseases and fall ill like animals. Incurable. "
- A. Sokurov
Content
- 1 plot
- 2 Cast
- 3 Interesting Facts
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Story
World War I In the house of the old captain Shotover, strange guests appear, and the house itself resembles Noah's ark , where life flows according to its own laws. The outer life is as if nothing to do with it: flirting, turning into stupidity, love drama, hiding hatred, pain and longing in the emptiness, condensed before the explosion ...
Cast
- Ramaz Chkhikvadze - Shotover
- Alla Osipenko - Ariadna
- Tatyana Egorova (Otyugova) - Hesion
- Dmitry Bryantsev - Hector
- Vladimir Zamansky - Mazzini
- Victoria Amitova (Yurizditskaya) - Ellie
- Ilya Rivin - Mengen
- Irina Sokolova - Guiness Nanny
- Vadim Beetle - Dr. Nyfe
- Andrey Reshetin - Randall
- Yu. Sergeev
- Vladimir Dmitriev
- P. Profit
- L. An
- Yu. Simonov
Interesting Facts
Sorrowful insensibility ( Latin Anaesthesia psychica dolorosa ) is the literary name for mental anesthesia , a special kind of mental illness, the most characteristic of which is the phenomenon of alienation of higher emotions. Patients observe complete insensibility to loved ones, loss of ability to experience pleasure and displeasure, joy, love, hatred and sadness; they figuratively call themselves "living corpses."
Literature
- Rudnev V. “Sorrowful insensibility” // Rudnev V. Dictionary of culture of the XX century . M .: Agraf , 1997, 1999, 2001, 2009. - ISBN 5-7784-0034-9 ; ISBN 5-7784-0176-0 ; ISBN 978-5-7784-0383-3
- Yampolsky M. December 1987. Alexander Sokurov's film “Sorrowful Insensibility” is released for rent // The Recent History of Russian Cinema. 1986-2000. St. Petersburg: Session , 2004 . T. VI: Cinema and context. - ISBN 5-901586-04-2
- Yampolsky M. Ark, floating from the past (inaccessible link) // Sokurov. Parts of speech [: Sat. Book 2]. St. Petersburg: Session , 2006 . S.57 - 70. - ISBN 5-901586-10-7
- Dobrotvorskaya K. “Sorrowful insensibility” and modern aesthetics (inaccessible link) // Ibid. 71 - 76.
- Sokurov A. Notes on the plastic solution of the film; A fragment of directorial explication (inaccessible link) // Ibid. 461-467.
Links
- " Sorrowful Feeling ” on the Internet Movie Database
- "Sorrowful insensibility" on the site "Sokurov Island"