From Gogol to the erotic Thriller: 7 most unusual adaptations of Russian classics
On 30 August the car will be released "Gogol. A terrible revenge" – the last part of the trilogy about the adventures of Nicholas V. in the teeming beasts the depths of the Russian Empire. In these films, a classic turned into a brave detective, lover and almost a third brother of the family Winchester from the TV series "Supernatural". The fantasy approach and postmodern flirting with a number of foreign works, of course, distinguish the movies Yegor Baranov on the General background of the Russian cinema. Good or bad – you decide.
Anyway, the release of the new film about Gogol here is a list of 7 unusual adaptations of Russian classics. Kafkaesque Comedy, erotic Thriller and crime drama – it's all here.
Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Double / The Double (2013) / The Double
Genre: drama / Comedy / Thriller Director: Richard Ayoade starring: Jesse Eisenberg, MIA wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, yasmin Paige, Noah Taylor
Closed office clerk begins to lose touch with reality when it comes to work man, looks very similar to him, but with a lion's confidence and incredible charisma. Decisive actions double first takes a job, and then encroach on the sacred and seduces girl, which dreams our hero. British Director Richard Ayoade, the author of the main teen film of the last decade – "Submarines", decided to film "the Double" by Dostoevsky in his style. It turned out giperestrogennaya story with Kafkaesque atmosphere, the influence of Terry Gilliam and humor of woody Allen. How ironic that in the same year he released the double film – "Enemy" by Denis Villeneuve with Jake Gyllenhaal in the title role.
Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina / Anna Karenina (2012) / Anna Karenina
Genre: drama / romance Director: Joe Wright starring: keira Knightley, Jude law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alicia Vikander, domhnall Gleeson
One of the most filmed literary works of our country – this time we tried the Hollywood. The look in the film, Tolstoy's psychologism, or at least most of the main motifs of the novel here is not: we must immediately understand, this movie is not for head, eye and heart. The version of Joe Wright's first touches for his large-scale scenes, amazing choreography, beautiful costumes and, of course, well-known actors. Someone all this enthusiasm, coupled with pretentiousness and glitz will lead to heart attack say: how can you put classics? But nothing important – disable fan feelings and just enjoy what is happening.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky – the Idiot / Down house (2001)
Genre: Comedy Directors: Roman Kachanov Eduard Reznik starring: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Ivan Okhlobystin, Anna Bukowska, Alexander Bashirov, Mikhail Vladimirov
In the beginning of the Roman Kachanov released interpretation of the great novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky "the Idiot". It's amazing how original the Director decided to modernize the classics. Prince Myshkin, who originally wrote, referring to Jesus Christ, the film becomes inferior in development – that is, an idiot by nature. New Russians, "hammer", the brutal manners of the Moscow society: on the one hand, the grotesque irony of a person who is already of the new century looks back at the recent 90s, and with another – accurate portrait of the era, which largely now can be considered relevant.
Nikolai Leskov – Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk / Lady Macbeth (2016) / Lady Macbeth
Genre: drama Director: William Oldroyd cast: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Aki, Christopher Fairbank
A very recent hit that lit the talented star Florence Pugh. The picture is only partially based on the work of Leskov's story there are many differences, but thematically almost complete similarity. The hard life of a married woman forces her to find a lover. When inflamed passion can't hide from prying eyes, the couple begins to get rid of witnesses. Erotic and bloody adaptation of Leskov presents the viewer a very detailed portrait of the moral fall of man. Agree, not often domestic classics add eroticism and murder.
Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and punishment / Crime and punishment (1983) / Rikos ja rangaistus
Genre: drama / Thriller Director: Aki kaurismäki cast: Markku Toikka, Aino Seppo, Esko Nikkari, Hannah, Laurie, Ollie Tuominen
The Finnish film legend and part-time drinker with a European Director, encroached on Dostoevsky's already the second film. Later, he explained it this way: "I once read an interview with Hitchcock where he says he can never touch this book. And I thought, "Well, I'll show you, old man." Later I realized that he was right. But I was young, and that is my excuse..." Happened, as you understand, not the best adaptation. Now would Kaurismaki added humor, caustic irony and humanistic message, and then, in the early 1980s, Finn removed a modern crime drama, completely devoid of brand ease.
Nikolai Gogol – Viy / Viy (2014)
Genre: mystery / adventure / Thriller Directed by: Oleg Stepchenko starring: Jason Fleming, Andrey Smolyakov, Aleksey Chadov, Agnia Ditkovskite, Yuri Tsurilo
Again Nikolai, and again it "Wii". One of the most expensive projects in the history of cinema in once, managed to pay off, although it is not entirely clear how the film could cost $ 26 million. In General, from Gogol in the film was really the name of the mythical beings, but there is 3D – it's even in the title issued. Now more interest is the forthcoming sequel, which will be released this year. The film focuses on the Chinese car and managed to star Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Already two reasons to look at the painting.
Mikhail Bulgakov – notes of a young doctor / Morphine (2008)
Genre: drama Director: Alexei Balabanov cast: Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin, Sergey Garmash, Svetlana Pismichenko
Immediately after the landmark and extremely controversial film about the restructuring called "Cargo 200" Alexey Balabanov Bulgakov adapted the script by Sergei Bodrov Jr .. After training, the young doctor becomes a country doctor. In the yard in the autumn of 1917, and it means that the drone revolution is already underway from St. Petersburg, and soon its echo will reach the provinces. The doctor, meanwhile, tries to save local, but foolishly sits on the needle. First, the morphine becomes the only way to relax and escape from the reality surrounding him, and later break a life habit. Towards the end a serious crash hero rhymes with the tyranny of the Bolsheviks, having come to the regions. And ends the film and is one of the most original final scenes among the Russian films of the XXI century.
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