Ballad of Siberia

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Ballad of Siberia
Directed byIvan Pyryev
Written by
  • Ivan Pyryev (story)
  • Evgeniy Pomeshchikov
  • Nikolai Rozhkov
Starring
CinematographyValentin Pavlov
Edited byAnna Kulganek
Music byNikolai Kryukov
Production
company
Release date
1948
Running time
114 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The Ballad of Siberia (in Russian: Сказание о земле Сибирской, romanized: Skazanie o zemle sibirskoy), also known as Symphony of Life,[1][2] produced by Mosfilm and released in 1948, was the Soviet Union's second color film (after The Stone Flower). It was directed by Ivan Pyryev and starred Vladimir Druzhnikov and Marina Ladynina.

It is a Soviet style musical movie, full of songs, such as "The Wanderer", describing the development of Siberia after World War II.

Synopsis

Pianist Andrei Balashov (

Great Patriotic War loses the opportunity to earnestly pursue music due to a hand injury. Without saying goodbye to his friends and his beloved Natasha (Marina Ladynina), he goes to Siberia. He works on the construction of a plant, and in the evenings sings in a teahouse. By chance, weather conditions force the plane with Andrey's friends, Boris Olenich (Vladimir Zeldin) and Natasha, who are flying to a competition abroad, to land at the airport near the building of the plant. Andrey meets them and it changes his life. He travels to the Arctic and inspired by the heroic labor of the builders to write a symphonic oratorio
"Ballad of Siberia", which receives universal recognition.

Cast

Songs

It is a musical movie, with songs both old and new. The most notable songs are:

  • "The Song of the Siberian Earth" (words by
    Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky
    , music by Nikolai Kryukov)
  • "The Hymn to Siberia" (words by Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky, music by Nikolai Kryukov)
  • "The Wanderer" (in Russian: Бродяга)

Influence

This film was so successful that a second color musical film, Cossacks of the Kuban, was made two years later by the same director and cast.

This movie also became popular in Japan. It gave influence to the Utagoe Movement and Utagoe coffeehouse in the 1950s, eventually leading to the Karaoke phenomenon in the 1970s.[3]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-782-38997-2
    .
  2. ISBN 978-1-786-72239-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )
  3. ^ Utagoe Cafes in Tokyo

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