“The Abduction of a Sorcerer” is a Soviet feature film directed at the Sverdlovsk film studio in 1989 by director Viktor Kobzev .
Screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Cyrus Bulychev .
| Abduction of the sorcerer | |
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| Genre | fantasy |
| Producer | Victor Kobzev |
| Author script | Kir Bulychev , Victor Kobzev |
| In the main cast | Julia Aug Romualdas Ramanauskas Sergey Varchuk Vladimir Gostyukhin Victor Soloviev |
| Operator | Rudolf Meshcheryagin |
| Composer | Algirdas Paulavicius |
| Film company | Sverdlovsk film studio |
| Duration | 100 minutes |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Tongue | Russian |
| Year | 1989 |
| IMDb | ID 0098104 |
The premiere of the film took place in November 1989 [1] .
Content
Story
The action takes place in Belarus in the 1980s.
Young graduate student Anna arrives in her native village, where she was not about 12 years old, at her grandmother's house. Here, in rural silence, she is about to write a dissertation. Suddenly, two strangers appear in the house and claim that the mistress of this house passed it to them for two weeks yesterday. Events are developing and it turns out that strangers came to the XX century from the future, from the XXVIII century, using a time machine . The historian Keen and the physicist Jules search for unrecognized geniuses whose life suddenly ended. Their goal is to send such geniuses to the future without changing the course of history (that is, evacuate at the time of death). Here is their intermediate stop and they need to go further, in the XIII century , to find there a certain boyar Roman, who lived at that time in these parts, and take him with them to the future. From the annals it is known that he invented gunpowder and a printing press, and apparently died during the capture of the city by the crusaders. From their point of view, he is a genius, and according to his contemporaries, he is a sorcerer. Involuntarily, Anna becomes involved in an amazing and dangerous adventure.
Jules and Keene, using special equipment, get the image and sound from the past. They see that the town of Zamoshye, where the boyar Roman lives, will soon be taken by a crusader attack. Having clarified the situation, Jules goes for the genius, but in the past he is revealed. The only one who can come to his aid is Anna. She herself suggests sending herself into the past and, taking advantage of the resemblance to Princess Magdalena, helps the alien from the future save herself. The true genius is not Roman, but his ugly and inconspicuous at first assistant Aciples. He can be saved immediately before the final fall of the city. Anna is safely transported back in due time.
Starring
- Julia Aug - Anna Mazurkevich / Princess Magdalena
- Romualdas Ramanauskas - Kin Vladimirovich, a historian from the future, aka “restorer Terenty Ivanovich Vasiliev”
- Sergey Varchuk - Jules Valent, Junior Researcher from the Future
- Vladimir Gostyukhin - Akiplesha
- Victor Soloviev - boyar Roman
Cast
- Andrey Boltnev - Landmaster Friedrich von Kockenhausen
- Lev Borisov - grandfather Gennady
- Andrey Zhagars - Prince Vyacheslav , son of Polotsk Prince Boris Romanovich
- Vitaly Chetkov - lad Gluzd, monk
- Sulev Luik - Bishop Albert
- Lyudmila Ksenofontova - Aunt Magdalena
- Valentin Golubenko - Mazhey
- Nartay Begalin - Polovets
- Filimon Sergeev - episode
Camera crew
- Screenplay - Kira Bulycheva with the participation of Victor Kobzev
- Production - Victor Kobzev
- The main operator - Rudolf Meshcheryagin
- The main artist - Valery Kukenkov
- Composer - Algirdas Paulavicius
Differences from the book
- The screen version is close to the story and differs in minor details. So, for example, in the film, newcomers from the future installed their equipment for moving in time in the ruins of the church and got into it from Anna's house with a certain technique reminiscent of teleportation . In the book, the movement took place directly in Anna's house.
- In the story, Kin and Jules live in the 27th century, in the film in the 28th.
- Keene was a thing of the past in the book, Jules was in the film.
- In the story, Anna first guessed who is a true genius. In the film, Jules made the right conclusion on his own.
- In the film Akiplesha - a hunchback, in the book - a one-eyed midget with a hand disfigured as a result of chemical experiments, which can be mistaken for a child.
Notes
- ↑ Abduction of a sorcerer . Date of treatment May 15, 2012. Archived June 5, 2012.
Links
- “The abduction of a sorcerer” (rus.) Online encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius
- “The abduction of a sorcerer” (rus.) RUSKINO.RU
- "The abduction of a sorcerer" (Russian) on the site of the Cinema Theater. RU
- Abduction of a Sorcerer on the Internet Movie Database
Literature
- M. Yu. Manakov . Filmography of Kira Bulychev: a guide . - Krasnodar : Okolitsa, 2002 .-- S. 12 .-- 88 p. - ISBN 5-87716-097-4 .
- Sergey Zemlyanukhin, Miroslav Segid. Home cinema: domestic cinema 1918-1996 . - M .: Dubl-D, 1996 .-- S. 348. - 520 p. - ISBN 5-900902-05-6 .
- Andrey Shcherbak-Zhukov . A game with history // If . - 2001. - No. 3 . - S. 122 . - ISSN 1680-645X .