Rivals - Soviet black and white silent artistic and ethnographic film of 1929. It is considered the first film shot in Udmurtia . [one]
| Rivals | |
|---|---|
| Genre | |
| Producer | Alexey Pel-Dmitriev |
| Author script | George Grebner |
| Operator | Peter Mosyagin |
| Film company | Mezhrabpomfilm |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Year | 1929 |
| IMDb | |
- Not to be confused with the 1985 film Rivals
Content
- 1 plot
- 1.1 Ethnographic content
- 2 Actors
- 3 Shooting
- 4 notes
- 5 Sources
Story
NEP time. Udmurt village Ulyn Yuri. Two girls - the daughter of the shopkeeper Italmas and the activist of the cooperative movement Tutigash fight for the love of the hunter Yadigar. At the same time, there is a confrontation between the rich village shopkeeper Shakmaev and a consumer cooperative for the right to trade in the village.
Ethnographic Content
The film is a rich historical and ethnographic source. [2] In episodic roles and in mass scenes, residents of local villages were occupied.
The shots of the film also reflect the culture of the Udmurts, a number of plots are devoted to rituals, for example, the ritual “Shaitan Ullyans” which every spring devils-shaytans were driven out of the huts, and drove them down the street to the outskirts of the village. Also shown is the rite of prayer and sacrifice in the family-clan barn "kuala", the ceremony of "dressing the bride" and others.
Actors
- Zana Zanoni - Italmas, daughter of a fist
- Olga Lenskaya - Tutigish, activist
- Ivan Arkanov - Shakmaev, merchant fist
- Gleb Kuznetsov - Yadygard, a young hunter
- Vladimir Uralsky - Abram, clerk
- N. Fursov - healer Koy son (snake eye)
- Konstantin Chugunov - father of Yadygard
- Alexander Novikov - Udmurt
- Alexander Gromov - old Hubert, father Tutigash, head of the cooperative
- Mark Mestechkin - episode
- Sophia Levitina - episode
Filming
The film was shot by the Mezhrabpomfilm film studio jointly [3] with the Central Union - the highest organ of Soviet consumer cooperation.
Filming began in the summer of 1927 in the Udmurt village of Nizhny Yuri (Udm. Ulyn Yuri ) of the Bolshe-Kkibinsky volost of the Mozhginsky district of Votsky Autonomous Okrug (now the Malopurginsky district of Udmurtia). [2] Filming was also carried out in typical Udmurt villages: Shudye , Shaberdino , Zavyalovo , and the " sacred grove " was photographed near the village of Kulay-Noriya [4] .
It was planned to “ surprise the Soviet audience with an exotic ribbon on Udmurt material ” by the decade of the Great October Revolution , but they didn’t have time to complete the shooting by the fall [4] .
In addition, during the review of the scenario and when viewing the footage in the Council of People's Commissars of the People’s Commissariat for Education , a number of remarks arose regarding, according to S. T. Perevoshchikov, the chairman of the Scientific Society for the Study of the Votsky Territory, “ inaccuracies that crept into the script because the author didn’t know small details from everyday life and customs ” [5] .
To more accurately reflect the realities of the Udmurt life and religious rites in the film, in the autumn of 1927 S.T. Perevoshchikov undertook an ethnographic expedition in the village of Tutashevo of the Bolshekibyinsky volost, the materials of which with comments on the film script were published in the 5th issue of the Society’s Proceedings . [6]
The film crew was also advised on ethnographic issues by the ethnographer and local historian M. I. Ilyin [7]
In the summer of 1928, the shooting was continued, individual fragments of the film were re-taken into account comments [6] , the shooting was completed in July 1928.
The premiere of the film took place on April 16, 1929, from May 8, 1929 the film was shown in Izhevsk in the cinema "Rest" (located on Lenin St., 5) causing a keen interest of the audience. [four]
In the late 80s, film with five of the six parts of the film was restored at the Kazan film studio.
Notes
- ↑ Udmurtia, attention! Motor! Shooting! // Newspaper "Izvestia of the Udmurt Republic" No. 140-142 (4423-4425) of December 29, 2015
- ↑ 1 2 Fedorova I. M. The film “Rivals” as an ethnographic source // A connecting thread of ethnic culture. Izhevsk, 2009.S. 193-199.
- ↑ Soviet Feature Films: Neme Films, 1918-1935 / All-Union State Film Fund, Moscow, All-Union State Film Fund, Moscow, Art, 1961 - p. 295
- ↑ 1 2 3 Evgeny Shumilov - This is how Udmurt films began // Ural Magazine No. 9 for 1988, Sverdlovsk Book Publishing House - pp. 160—161
- ↑ Perevoshchikov S. T. Cinema expeditions of Mezhrabp-Rus to shoot the picture “Rivals” // Transactions of NOIVK. Izhevsk, 1928. Issue. 5, pp. 151-152. from. 151
- ↑ 1 2 Churakov V.S., Ph.D. - Folklore-linguistic and archaeological-ethnographic expeditions that worked among the Udmurts in the 1920s and 1930s // Idnakar Journal: Methods of Historical and Cultural Reconstruction No. 2 (19) for 2014
- ↑ Mikhail Ilyin // Writers of Udmurtia. Bibliographic reference / comp. A.N. Uvarov . - Izhevsk: Udmurtia , 1989 .-- S. 184-185. - 464 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-7659-0131-X .
Sources
- Day of Russian cinema: top 10 films shot in Udmurtia , Komsomolskaya Pravda . Izhevsk, August 17, 2014
- About the first Udmurtian film "Rivals", shot on Malopurginsky land , Official site of the municipality "Malopurginsky District", April 11, 2016