Gadfly (film, 1980)

Gadfly
Gadfly
Genre	drama
Producer	Nikolay Mashchenko
Author; script	Julius Dunsky ; Valery Frid
In the main; cast	Andrey Kharitonov ; Sergey Bondarchuk ; Anastasia Vertinskaya
Operator	Sergey Stasenko
Studio	A. Dovzhenko Film Studio , Creative Union “Ray”
Duration
A country	;
Tongue
release date	November 3, 1980
Number of episodes	3
IMDb

Ovod is a three-part television feature film of 1980 directed by Nikolay Mashchenko , based on the novel of the same name by Ethel Lilian Voynich . The film uses music by composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .

Content

Story

The film tells about the dramatic relationship between father and son. The background is the struggle of Italian patriots against the Austrian invaders for the unification and independence of Italy.

Episode 1 Memory

Student Arthur Burton, the son of a wealthy English shipowner from the city of Livorno , is seriously interested in revolutionary ideas whose goal is to unite Italy and free her from Austrian oppression. Arthur's older brother James and his wife Julia openly dislike Arthur, and the rector of the seminary and his mentor, Bishop Montanelli, become his only close person. By the will of circumstances, Arthur ends up in jail for a short while, and, leaving there, suffers a serious quarrel with his girlfriend and like-minded Jemma. On the same evening, upon arriving home, he learns from an angry Julia that, in fact, his father is Montanelli. Arthur decides to hide in South America , imitating his death ...

Episode 2 Gemma

Arthur returns to Italy under the name Felice Rivares, and he is also a popular pamphletist, Gadfly, known for his intolerance towards the clergy of the Catholic Church. Here he meets Gemma again, but Gemma does not recognize in him, wounded and matured, the former Arthur, and he himself does not seek to reveal his secret to her. Despite some controversy, Gadfly and Gemma begin preparations for an armed uprising in the Papal States . During one of his business trips, Gadfly, under the guise of a wanderer, meets in the cathedral with his father Montanelli, who has already become a cardinal and is firmly convinced of Arthur's death. Guardsmen arrested right in the Gadfly Cathedral and sent to prison ...

Episode 3 Father and Son

Friends of Ovoda are trying to arrange for him to escape from prison, which breaks down due to a sudden attack of chronic disease Ovoda. Montanelli comes to his cell for a spiritual conversation, but Gadfly does not want to compromise, constantly showing his hostility to Montanelli. In the end, he reveals his secret to the cardinal, but refuses to accept help from the priest. Soon the Gadfly is shot , and Montanelli goes crazy and dies during a service in the cathedral ...

Actors and roles

Cast

Andrey Kharitonov - Arthur Burton (Felice Rivares), Italian underground revolutionary under the pseudonym "Gadfly"
Anastasia Vertinskaya - Gemma Warren (Jennifer, Jim, after marriage - Signor Ball), beloved Arthur ("Gadfly")
Sergey Bondarchuk - Lorenzo Montanelli, Cardinal, Arthur's real father
Ada Rogovtseva - Julie Burton, wife of James Burton
Konstantin Stepankov - Austrian Colonel
Konstantin Tsanev - Riccardo
Grigore Grigoriu - Cesare Martini (voiced by Leonid Filatov )
G. Slesarenko - Giordano
Stefan Dobrev - Giovanni Boll (voiced by Vitaliy Doroshenko )
Givi Tohadze - Cardi, Rector of the Seminary
Kartlos Maradishvili - Giuseppe Mazzini (voiced by Pavel Morozenko )
Alexander Zadneprovsky - James Burton, Arthur's half-brother
Oleg Chaika - Tommasi
Mircea Sotsky-Voinicu - Marcon
L. Geguchadze - Signora Grassini
Valery Sheptekita - Signor Grassini
Svetlana Yankovskaya - Zitta
Alexey Kolesnik - Michele
Irina Skobtseva - Gladys Burton, mother of Arthur
Peter Slabakov - Ferrari

In episodes

V. Bogutsky
V. Borisenko
Gennady Budnitsky
Z. Wafis
Yuri Velichko
Evgeny Gvozdyov
Igor Dmitriev
Yu. Kakakulin
Nikolay Kovtunenko
Alexey Moroz
Yuri Nezydymenko
M. Oaks
T. Oliva
Vera Saranova
A. Strutinsky
Vladimir Talashko - doctor
Alim Fedorinsky
Valentin Chernyak - Bishop
A. Chechik
Leo Olevsky

Camera crew

Script writers:
- Valery Frid
- Julius Dunsky
Stage Director: Nikolay Mashchenko
Chief Operator: Sergey Stasenko
Set Designer: Anatoly Dobrolezha
State Symphony Orchestra of the Ukrainian SSR
- Conductor: Fedor Glushchenko
State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra of the USSR
- Conductor: Vadim Gnedash
Director of the film: Eduard Rusakov

Rewards

1981 - The main prize of the Golden Nymph television festival ( Monte Carlo ) - A. Kharitonov for playing the main role
1982 - State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR named after T. G. Shevchenko - Director N. Mashchenko , leading actors A. Kharitonov and S. Bondarchuk

Errors in showing Catholic services

In the final scene of the service in the cathedral, Cardinal Montanelli holds a monstrance in his hands, which is unrealistic, since as a sign of veneration of the Holy Gifts, a priest, deacon, subdeacon or bishop carrying the monstrance during adoration does not hold it with his bare hands, but over the edges of the shoulder plate ( gumerala )
In the same scene, Cardinal Montanelli should hold liturgical gloves on her hands. Gloves really are, but not liturgical, but white from transparent lace, such that girls wear during the procession for the First Communion or the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. These liturgical gloves are made of thick fabric and decorated with embroidery, moreover, they are of different colors, depending on the use of liturgical colors.
In the same scene, Cardinal Montanelli wears both an ornate and a pluvial , which in principle does not happen, since an ornate is an obligatory garment at the Mass, and the pluvial is not used by a clergyman. Also, the cardinal does not wear a tunic , an obligatory garment of the Catholic bishop during the Mass.
In the same scene, all the clergy who surround Montanelli are dressed in vestments of different colors, which is impossible, since each day and festival has its own color of liturgical vestments.

Links

"Gadfly" on the site "Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema"