The Adventures of the Elektronic

• Vladimir Torsujew: Electronics
• Yuri Torsujew: Sergei Syrojeschkin
• Nikolai Grinko: Professor Gromov
• Elizabeth Nikischtschichina: Masha, Assistant Gromows
• Vasily Skromny: Makar Gusev
• Oksana Alexeyevna: Maija Swetlowa
• Maxim Kalinin: Vova Korolkov
• Yevgeny Livshitz: Tschischikow
• Dmitry Maximov: Viktor Smirnov
• Walerija Solujan: soy Kukuschkina
• Nikolai Karatschenzow: Urri
• Vladimir Basov: Stump

The electronic doppelganger is a Soviet children's movie from 1979 with the original Russian title Приключения Электроника, Prikljutschenija Elektronika, The Adventures of electronics. He tells a double story, shown in the main roles of adolescent twins. In the former Soviet Union, he reached an enormous popularity that continues in Russia and other former Soviet republics to the present day. The film is still in the program of Russian television stations.

• 6.1 Soviet Union
• 6.2 DDR
• 6.3 Russia

Particulars

The German title comes from the German dubbed version of the GDR television (1982). As a template for the script served narratives (1964, 1971) of the Russian- Soviet writer Yevgeny Weltistow ( 1937-1989 ). The effect was intensified by the film music of Yevgeny Krylatow (* 1934).

The film consists of three successive parts in their action of each an ample hour duration:

• The outlier (Russian " Побег " Pobeg, literally Escape ), 1:11 hrs
• The secret of 6b (Russian « Тайна 6" Б " ," Taina 6 "b"), 1:04 hrs
• The boy with the dog (Russian « Мальчик с собакой " Maltschik sobakoi s ), 1:04 hrs

The theatrical release of the otherwise only for television provided film took place in Odessa on 23 March 1980 at which first broadcast on Soviet television on 2 and 3 May 1980.

Suddenly, after the first full broadcast, the fame of the two main characters and the film itself began when Soviet television met until the end of 1981 at least 56,000 letters a, the twins received up to 40 letters a day. Vladimir Torsujew (performer of electronics) later reported on their private visit to a theater performance, half a year after the television premiere: When asked during the break for an autograph, as many other theater-goers gathered in an instant to her that she of the beginning next act missed by twenty minutes.

Action

The outlier

Professor Gromov has the home - built robot electronics, which he has given the shape and facial features of an approximately 13 - year-old boy, whom he had discovered in the photo of a magazine. The robot comes to the idea of ​​a real man will want to. He escaped the professor and his encounter random human model: The sixth graders Sergei Syrojeschkin soon discovers that the machine can relieve him of the pesky homework, and he eventually sends him even in his place in the school without the exchange will be noticed. With unprecedented performance of up to that mediocre students will soon become the figurehead of his school. The true student realizes that he is increasingly sidelined. Parallel to the main plot tries a gang of thieves to get to the robot in order to use it for their own purposes.

The secret of 6b

As the student double game grows over his head, he confides the secret to his friends who join now thrilled. Electronics are at the same time the hope of becoming a human being in this environment. He disappears and makes the toy store when converting from rag dolls to clockwork toys help. Meanwhile, the students Syrojeschkin is pressed to explain, because it no longer provides the expected performance in school. Electronics is discovered by an initiated student and moved to return. After he fails to Hockey game because nobody had taught him the rules, airs a schoolgirl secret from the teachers. At the same time Professor Gromov discovered his robot again, but leaves it in the children. Electronics for its part had the robot dog Ressi built from a toy dog ​​, which he now presents to the astonished professor. A little later succeeds Urri to kidnap the Commissioner of thieves, Electronics.

The boy with the dog

The dog Ressi is set to Elektroniks track being taken abroad in a suitcase by plane. When the dog reached him, the children can connect wirelessly. The thieves will now come to the art collection of a museum with the kidnapped electronics. For this, the robot together with dog should be channeled as a representation of the coat of arms symbol urban boy with dog in the building so he opens the thieves from the inside. Meanwhile, the student must repeat all Syrojeschkin previously played by the robot school exams, which he manages with the help of his friends and the sympathy of the whole school with flying colors. When the remote control is lost for the robot dog, electronics is cut off from the kids and now follows the plans of the gang. But shortly after the raid he realizes its purpose and the gang escaped with the stolen goods. Students can resume contact with him, and they design the plan to let him ring the bells to warn the inhabitants. Electronics brings the long- stagnant chime in motion, during which transmission finally caught the thieves pursuing him. After the robot to the astonishment of urban residents - from the spire singing - has appeared as their coat of arms symbol, it returns to the children. The professor leaves this his invention now final.

Main roles and actors

• The two double Electronics - Vladimir Torsujew ( born April 22, 1966): Same People robot in the form of an approximately 13 - year-old Russian student, externally replicated a magazine photo, called in the film El or Elik. Has superhuman strength, is in the running and cycling unassailable, invincible, and in Chess sings flawless in a different voice.
• Sergei Syrojeschkin - Yuri Torsujew ( born April 22, 1966): Intermediate students in a class 6b a Russian city, the robot electronics calibrate to the hair. In the film, the voice of the actor was by actress Irina Grischina (* 1953) assumed ( do not mind the song, see section film music).

• Friends of the student Syrojeschkin: Makar Gusev - Vasily Skromny (* 1964): students of class 6b, in growth superior to the other and changing voices. His name Gusev is derived from the Russian word for Gus Goose and are in the introduction of the film prompted a taunt. As the only child actor Vasily Skromny got immediately after the movie year after year other roles, he broke the film career but as an adult from.
• Vova Korolkov - Maxim Kalinin (1968-2011): Students of Class 6b, in the movie of "professor" among the students. The tragic end of 2011 deceased performer acknowledged a Russian television station in 2011 in a one-hour program with other participants of the film.
• Tschischikow - Yevgeny Livshitz (* 1969): The smallest of the six friends and dotted with freckles. His name Tschischikow is therefore used in the movie multiple times for word games with the similar-sounding Russian word for freckled people. Yevgeny Livshitz moved to the end of the Soviet Union, first to Israel and later to Germany and lives in Dusseldorf as a music teacher (as of 2013).
• Maija Swetlowa - Oksana Alekseeva (* 1966): student of class 6b, which joins the circle of friends after her Syrojeschkin had impressed in Elektroniks figure in front of older boys.
• Viktor Smirnov - Dmitry Maximov: Students of Class 6b, only a minor role

• Soy Kukuschkina - Walerija Solujan: Student Class 6b airing discovered in the course of action the secret to double the students and Syrojeschkin.

• Professor Gromov - Nikolai Grinko (1920-1989): Russian professor who developed the robot electronics.
• Masha - Elizabeth Nikischtschichina (* 1941-1997 ): Assistant Professor Gromows
• Urri - Nikolai Karatschenzow (* 1944): a member of a " foreign " criminal gang, which is called in the German version of the GDR television " show and theft ." Under louder failures he's there the only one who dares to locate in the country of the Russians the robot electronics and steal him for the gang.
• Stump (English ) - Vladimir Basov ( 1923-1987 ): Charismatic gang leader. In the course of action he always asks about radio again his agent Urri vain if the has finally found the off button for the robot to carry away it can. "? Urri, where is his switch" The phrase therefore has been received as a winged movie quote in the Russian vernacular ( Урри, где же у него кнопка - pronounced? Urri, gdje cal u njewo Knopka ).

• Ressi - an Airedale Terrier named Genghis: From a toy dog ​​electronics has him turned into a robot. The name Ressi in the film is a portmanteau as a technical shortcut. In the German version he is paraphrased Setti for Controllable electronic Terrier fantastic intelligence.

Moral claim

The film is without any reference to the Soviet party and state ideology - which is why he could be revived in the spring of 1990 started in the final phase of the GDR without concerns on East German television. Even the red scarf, actually symbol of political organization Children of the Lenin Pioneers is used only as part of the school uniform. The gang is merely marked as " foreign", but shown without policy environment.

Undercurrent runs through the whole plot the question of what makes a true man - repeatedly raised in individual episodes as well as in the lyrics. For example explains the robot, an old man that a good man is helpful, whereupon electronics operated in the children's department store. Elsewhere, the teacher evaluates in drawing lessons emitted from a robot, technically perfect portrait down, because it represents a flawless ideal.

The school and teaching mode is drawn as a strict but loving children. The relationship between the students is characterized by a strong sense of community and experience in the film. At a high point reaches the action, as the victory at Hockey is questioned and has to be clarified whether the ultimate goal has been scored by the robot or the student.

In the applied film plot finally plays its relationship to technological change - here in the form of electronics - a role. The robot makes, for example, at times the real students dispensable - not only in school but also in the leisure of his friends. Maija, the girl in the Syrojeschkins friends, even found the robot more interesting than the student. Director Konstantin Blomberg: " It seems to me that the movie adds some gaps in the image of the positive hero children. The children see in this electronic doppelganger, the ideal of a friend. "

Film Music

As the film progresses eleven songs on the music of Yevgeny Krylatow and lyrics by Yuri Entin ( born 1935 ) is played. Some were in the time of the Soviet Union so well known that they can be regarded as a Russian folk songs today - in particular the song on the swings with wings. The video - sharing website YouTube has it from millions of calls; Russian karaoke page karaoke.ru calls over 600,000 calls. The song was part of the program in 1980 the prestigious Soviet year-end gala song of the year, performed by the Children's Choir of the Great Soviet television and radio.

Also still popular in today's Russia is also the song We are young children, including through a dance interpretation of the Moscow children's ensembles Neposedy. In the film, both tunes except vocal scenes used as leitmotifs for the soundtrack of the performances of the two main heroes.

The two twin stars of the movie come with the songs of the film in today's Russia in a stage program. Its title Syrojeschkins Garage - after the action location of several scenes - is self-explanatory because of the cult importance of film for Russian viewers. The old originals of the songs are up to the present by DJs Electronic revisions (Remix ) is used, in part, ironically.

In the film, the songs of the two roles of boy singers were interpreted:

• Actress and singer Jelena Kamburowa (* 1940) for the student Syrojeschkin
• Jelena Schujenkowa, soloist in the children's choir of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre, for the robot electronics

The text of the end credits song, You - Human ( Ты - человек, Ty - Chelovek ), was first observed and censored under the then cultural policy guidelines of the Soviet Union as ambiguous. Only in the years of perestroika it was added since January 1988 again in the movie.

All the songs of the film in chronological order:

Dissemination

Soviet Union

After the first showing in May 1980 TV reruns were held in July and December 1980. In 1986, the scenario in printed version was published under the original title of the film in the Ukraine. Three songs of the film appeared in the magazine Krugosor 8/1980 as a flexible vinyl records ( " sound films " ), later also known as discs. In the 1980s, a version was released on VHS tapes in the Soviet Union.

GDR

One of the action- giving narratives of Yevgeny Weltistow, Ressi, the flying dog, was published in 1975 in the children's book publisher in the GDR. In the East German television film with German language synchronization as an eight-part weekly series ( each approximately 25 minutes in length) was broadcast twice and once in the original Russian version:

• From January 2nd to February 20, 1982, each Saturday, 19.30 clock in the DDR program 1

• From March 30 to May 25, 1990, each Friday, 17.45 clock in the DDR program 1 ( Part 1 audience share: 0.2%, Part 6: 0.3 %, Part 8: 2.1%)
• In DDR 2 program, the original version of the film was on 12, 19 and 26 September 1982 ( every Sunday, 15.30 clock ) sent to our friends for the Russian language.

Russia

In 2000, the film was released on DVD with Russian and English subtitles. Up to the present it would be aired several times a year by Russian television stations.

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