Sadko (film)
Sadkos Adventure ( also Beckoning lucky and Sadko, the tramp ) is a Soviet fairy tale film by Alexander Ptuschko from the year 1953. It is based on motives of the popular Russian legend of Sadko, among other things, also Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, a tone poem and opera devoted.
Action
The poor Guslispieler and singer Sadko arrives in the high and mighty city of Novgorod. After he is the beautiful girl Ljubawa met, became his lover, he goes to the market and sees the suffering of the poor, which he promises to seek happiness, which is to float high in the air as a bird in a distant land. Later he turns into an inn, where the merchants of the city pour their wealth. He asks her to give him some money so he could build ships to sail with them to the world and to an increasing number of his and their property can. Even the city itself, it would bring fame and fortune bird he would seek. However, they reject his proposal, and he oppressed leaves the inn and in the lonely night on the shores of Lake Ilmen plays a tune. Ilmen, the daughter of the Sea King, overheard him there and falls in love. She comforts him and offers to help, by the morning will zutreiben the precious gold nib fish him. Sadko will then move back to the merchants and closes a bet with them from. All their goods should belong to him, if he would catch the wonderful fish. He succeeds ( net throwing technique is questionable ), but in the flush of victory he distributes all goods to the people, without thinking of his hidden agenda, to find happiness. Since the sea daughter helps him again and turned his last three gold spring fish in a mountain of gold. So he can say three solid build ships, says goodbye to his Ljubawa and sailing together with the son of a merchant Kuzma, the sly Trifon, the bear slayer Wyschata, some other swashbuckling heroes and the boy Ivashka out into the blue sea.
The years go by and the seekers arrive in India, where they hear of a phoenix bird who sings the song of happiness. In a castle he is to be located, in a golden tower, behind seven walls. Through a winning game of chess der Recke can the prince of the kingdom wrest the Phoenix, and it is to him and his men the way to the golden tower up rejected. At the top, the bird tries with his singing to enable the stretching in deep sleep, but the Guslispieler can resist the glamorous words and wakes his companions with a loud game on his instrument. Also, the phoenix is not proving to be the bird of happiness, so they grab him in a sack and want to continue to go on the search. The prince chic meanwhile his men in the tower, in the belief that the stranger had gone to sleep. The troops of the prince, however, repulsed, whereupon a huge enemy army formed before the golden tower. Since the stretching let the singing phoenix out of the bag and the men and war elephants of the prince fall into a deep sleep.
Escape, they embark on through the world and reach the pyramids and the Sphinx in Egypt. There the hero recalls his mistress and it is clear to him that he should not seek in distant lands happiness but must find at home. You set the sails and head towards home. However, on the high seas, she meets a violent storm - The Sea King takes its toll. Sadko sacrifices himself and jumps overboard. At the bottom of the sea arrived, he finds the Sea King with his wife in an azure blue castle before and plays them a song. The sea king pair requires the wedding with her daughter Ilmen, but they waived Sadko and helps him to escape, because they themselves know how hard unrequited love. It leaves him a uneinholbares seahorses and the warrior takes him to Novgorod, where his Ljubawa waiting for him. The three ships finally arrive. The people proclaimed the hero that he had found happiness - here it is.
Production
Sadko in 1952 and was published on January 5, 1953 in the Soviet Union.
On May 7, 1953, the film luck in the GDR cinemas ran under the title Beckoning and was first shown on September 8, 1953 DDR 1 on television of the GDR. The editing was done by the German DEFA.
On November 26, 1958, the film was released under the title Sadkos adventure in the cinemas of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Criticism
" The old Russian tale of the singer who goes out into the world to seek happiness, and there is finally in his home, looking as gorgeous - naive fairy tale. "
Award
At the International Film Festival of Venice, the film received the 1953 Silver Lion.