Charodey
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Charodei is a 1982
Soviet film directed by Konstantin Bromberg, loosely based on the science fantasy
novel Monday Begins on Saturday
by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky.
First script was more related to the canon novel (Monday Begins on Saturday) and was in fact an intention to make its screen version, with some new storylines though, but Bromberg didn't like it and Strugatsky Brothers wrote absolutely new script from scratch. History later repeated with another film by Sokurov
"Days of Eclipse
" (Dni zatmeniya).
Film became a classic Soviet New Year's Eve
romantic comedies, such as Irony of Fate
(Ironiya sud'by) and The Carnival Night (Karnavalnaya noch).
eev (V. Gaft), separates them. Her friends — magic wood masters, working in NUINU (Scientific Universal Institute of Extraordinary Services, a NIICHAVO subsidiary in Kitezh
grad; for NIICHAVO see Monday Begins on Saturday
) - decides to interfere and help to save the love. They convince Puhov to return and save Alyona right now.
, including:
Music performance by State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography of the USSR.
1982 in film
-Events:* March 26 = I Ought to Be in Pictures, starring Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret and Dinah Manoff is released. Manoff would not appear in another movie until 1987's Backfire.* June = PG-rated film E.T...
Soviet film directed by Konstantin Bromberg, loosely based on the science fantasy
Science fantasy
Science fantasy is a mixed genre within speculative fiction drawing elements from both science fiction and fantasy. Although in some terms of its portrayal in recent media products it can be defined as instead of being a mixed genre of science fiction and fantasy it is instead a mixing of the...
novel Monday Begins on Saturday
Monday Begins on Saturday
Monday Begins on Saturday is a 1964 science fiction / science fantasy novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. Set in a fictional town in northern Russia, where highly classified research in magic occurs, the novel is a satire of Soviet scientific research institutes, complete with an inept...
by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky.
First script was more related to the canon novel (Monday Begins on Saturday) and was in fact an intention to make its screen version, with some new storylines though, but Bromberg didn't like it and Strugatsky Brothers wrote absolutely new script from scratch. History later repeated with another film by Sokurov
Alexander Sokurov
Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov is a Russian filmmaker. His most significant works include a semi-documentary, Russian Ark , filmed in a single unedited shot, and Faust , which was honoured with the Golden Lion, the highest prize for the best film at the Venice Film Festival.- Life and work...
"Days of Eclipse
Days of Eclipse
Days of Eclipse is a 1988 Soviet film directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. Screenplay written by Yuri Arabov and Pyotr Kadochnikov based on a screenplay by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky and very loosely based on their novel Definitely Maybe...
" (Dni zatmeniya).
Film became a classic Soviet New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is observed annually on December 31, the final day of any given year in the Gregorian calendar. In modern societies, New Year's Eve is often celebrated at social gatherings, during which participants dance, eat, consume alcoholic beverages, and watch or light fireworks to mark the...
romantic comedies, such as Irony of Fate
Irony of Fate
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! is a Soviet comedy-drama directed by Eldar Ryazanov as a made-for-TV movie. The screenplay was written by Emil Braginsky and Ryazanov, loosely based on Ryazanov's 1971 play Once on New Year's Eve . For distribution outside of the Soviet Union, the film was...
(Ironiya sud'by) and The Carnival Night (Karnavalnaya noch).
Plot summary
Ivan Puhov (A. Abdulov) is in love with a young and pretty girl Alyona (A. Yakovleva). Little does know Ivan that Alyona is working as a witch. The marriage is already scheduled, but just one circumstance of "winter heart" magic induced by Kira Shemahanskaya (Ye. Vasilyeva), the institute director, who is convinced by SatanSatan
Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...
eev (V. Gaft), separates them. Her friends — magic wood masters, working in NUINU (Scientific Universal Institute of Extraordinary Services, a NIICHAVO subsidiary in Kitezh
Kitezh
Kitezh was a mythical city on the shores of the Svetloyar lake in the Voskresensky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in central Russia. It appears for the first time in "Kitezh Chronicle", an anonymous book from the late 18th century, believed to have originated among the Old believers.-The...
grad; for NIICHAVO see Monday Begins on Saturday
Monday Begins on Saturday
Monday Begins on Saturday is a 1964 science fiction / science fantasy novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. Set in a fictional town in northern Russia, where highly classified research in magic occurs, the novel is a satire of Soviet scientific research institutes, complete with an inept...
) - decides to interfere and help to save the love. They convince Puhov to return and save Alyona right now.
Cast
- Aleksandra YakovlevaAleksandra YakovlevaAleksandra Yakovleva is Soviet and Russian actress. She was one of the popular actresses of the 1980s.-Filmography:*1982 Charodei*1979 Air Crew*1987 A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines...
, Alyona Igorevna Sanina - Aleksandr AbdulovAleksandr AbdulovAleksandr Gavrilovich Abdúlov was a notable Soviet/Russian actor....
, Ivan Sergeevich Puhov - Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Kira Anatolyevna Shemahanskaya
- Valentin GaftValentin GaftValentin Yosifovich Gaft is a Russian and Soviet actor, People's Artist of Russia .-Biography:Valentin Gaft was born in Moscow to a family of a lawyer Iosif Romanovich Gaft and Gita Davydovna Gaft . The family moved to Moscow from Poltava, Ukraine...
, Apollon Mitrofanovich Sataneev - Yevgeny VesnikYevgeny VesnikYevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik was a Russian and Soviet stage and a film actor. The son of Yakov Vesnik, the first director of the Kryvorizhstal plant, he fought the Germans in the Second World War...
- Valery Zolotukhin, Ivan Kivrin
- Emmanuil Vitorgan, Kovrov
- Mikhail Svetin, Foma Ostapych Bryl
- Roman Filippov, Modest Matveevich Kamneyedov
- Anna Ashimova, Nina Puhova
- Semyon FaradaSemyon FaradaSemyon L'vovich Ferdman, better known by his stage name Semyon Farada was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.- Early life :Ferdman was born into the Jewish family of Army officer Lev Ferdman and pharmacist Ida Shuman. His father died when Semyon was 14. Later he tried to pursue a military...
, The Guest from South - Leonid KharitonovLeonid Kharitonov (actor)Leonid Vladimirovich Kharitonov was a Soviet actor whose stage name was Leonid Kharitonov. He was notable for his part in the films Private Ivan, Ivan Brovkin na tseline and Ulitsa polna neozhidannostey. He was awarded Honoured Artist of the RSFSR .-Life:See image...
Amatin - Ye. Abramova, Verochka
- I. Belger, Katenka
- V. Smolyanitskaya, as a master of a speaking cat
- Liliya Makeyeva, secretary
Film soundtrack
Film soundtrack includes many classical Soviet songs (some of them romantic), written by Yevgeni Krylatov and Leonid DerbenyovLeonid Derbenyov
Leonid Petrovich Derbenyov a Russian poet and lyricist widely regarded as one of the stalwarts of the 20th century Soviet and Russian pop music.-Biography:...
, including:
- "A woman's enigma" (Загадка женщины) performed by Irina Otieva
- "Three white horses" (Три белых коня) performed by Larisa DolinaLarisa DolinaLarisa Aleksandrovna Dolina is an Azerbaijani-born prominent Russian jazz and pop singer and an actress...
- "A song about a snowflake" (Песня о снежинке) performed by Olga Rozhdestvenskaya and Dobrie Molodtsy band
- "Witch-river" (Ведьма-речка) performed by Irina Otieva
- "A Song About a Suit" (Песенка про костюмчик) performed by Emmanuil Vitorgan and Mikhail Svetin
- "Imagine That" (Представь себе) performed by Aleksandr AbdulovAleksandr AbdulovAleksandr Gavrilovich Abdúlov was a notable Soviet/Russian actor....
- "Time to Sleep" (Спать пора) performed by Mikhail Svetin
- "Serenade" (Серенада) performed by original cast members
- "Centaurs" (Кентавры) performed by Dobrie Molodtsy
- "By The Mirror" (Подойду я к зеркалу) performed by Zhanna Rozhdestvenskaya
- "You Can't Command Your Heart" (Только сердцу не прикажешь) performed by Zhanna Rozhdestvenskaya and Vladimir Lynkovskiy
- "Don't believe what they say" (Говорят, а ты не верь) performed by original cast members
Music performance by State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography of the USSR.