The House of the Dead (1932 film)

The House of the Dead (1932)

The House of the Dead (Russian: Мёртвый дом, romanized: Myortvyy dom) is a 1932 Russian film directed by Vasili Fyodorov from a script by Viktor Shklovsky, based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky.^[1] Shklovsky changed the name of the script several times, eventually calling it The House of the Dead (Mertvyi dom).^[2]^[3] The film stars Nikolay Khmelyov, Nikolay Podgorny, Nikolai Vitovtov and Mikhail Zharov.^[4]

Cast

Nikolay Khmelyov as Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Nikolai Podgorny as K.P. Pobedonstzev
Nikolai Vitovtov as Tsar Nikolai I
Nikolai Radin as L.V. Doubelt
Vladimir Belokurov as Stammering Announcer
Vladimir Uralsky
Vasili Kovrigin as Uspensky
Gleb Kuznetsov as Guards soldier
Viktor Shklovsky as Petrashevsky
Georgiy Sochevko as Yastrzhembskiy

Release

The film was banned in Spain in 1935,^[5] but acquired by the British National Film Centre and the British Film Museum for showing in the Dostoyevsky jubilee in 1972.^[6]^[7]

References

^ Мёртвый дом — информация о фильме (in Russian)
^ Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion Under Stalin — ISBN 085771693X Jamie Miller — 2009 Page 59 Shklovsky changed the name of the script several times eventually calling it The House of the Dead (Mertvyi dom, 1932). The script was rejected on four other occasions. However, in the early to mid thirties, the existence of the Mezhrabpomfilm studio still provided an alternative for writers and filmmakers. Despite the public denunciations of Shklovsky as a Formalist, the studio accepted his script and entrusted the film to the director Vasili Fyodorov.
^ N. M. Lary — Dostoevsky and Soviet film: visions of demonic realism 1986 — Page 24 It is clear that the idea for House of the Dead, one of the first Soviet sound films, was Shklovsky's. Unfortunately, the studio entrusted the shooting of it to a director of mean talent, Vasili Fedorov. The film was attended by controversy from the start of work on it in 1930. Shklovsky had just been driven to renounce the scientific error of Formalism, but his startling pronouncements and his early Social Revolutionary attachments were not forgotten or forgiven. According to one account he...
^ Николай Хмелёв. Биография. (in Russian)
^ Román Gubern, Paul Hammond Luis Buñuel : The Red Years, 1929–1939 — (2012) ISBN 0299284735 p. 195 In August 1935 Piqueras denounced the Republican government for forbidding the showing of Patriots (Boris Barnet, 1933), about an episode in a Russian village in World War I; The House of the Dead (Vasili Fyodorov, 1932), a biography of...
^ Острова. Михаил Жаров (in Russian)
^ Soviet Film 1972 — Page 56 At the request of the British National Film Centre, the Archives supplied the British Film Museum with a number of films for the Dostoyevsky jubilee, among them Ivan Pyryev's screen adaptation of the Idiot (1958), also St Petersburg Night, made by Grigori Roshal and Vera Stroyeva in 1934, and The House of the Dead (1932), directed by Vassili Fyodorov.

External links

The House of the Dead at IMDb
The House of the Dead at the kino-teatr.ru

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[1] Мёртвый дом — информация о фильме (in Russian)

[2] Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion Under Stalin — ISBN 085771693X Jamie Miller — 2009 Page 59 Shklovsky changed the name of the script several times eventually calling it The House of the Dead (Mertvyi dom, 1932). The script was rejected on four other occasions. However, in the early to mid thirties, the existence of the Mezhrabpomfilm studio still provided an alternative for writers and filmmakers. Despite the public denunciations of Shklovsky as a Formalist, the studio accepted his script and entrusted the film to the director Vasili Fyodorov.

[3] N. M. Lary — Dostoevsky and Soviet film: visions of demonic realism 1986 — Page 24 It is clear that the idea for House of the Dead, one of the first Soviet sound films, was Shklovsky's. Unfortunately, the studio entrusted the shooting of it to a director of mean talent, Vasili Fedorov. The film was attended by controversy from the start of work on it in 1930. Shklovsky had just been driven to renounce the scientific error of Formalism, but his startling pronouncements and his early Social Revolutionary attachments were not forgotten or forgiven. According to one account he...

[4] Николай Хмелёв. Биография. (in Russian)

[5] Román Gubern, Paul Hammond Luis Buñuel : The Red Years, 1929–1939 — (2012) ISBN 0299284735 p. 195 In August 1935 Piqueras denounced the Republican government for forbidding the showing of Patriots (Boris Barnet, 1933), about an episode in a Russian village in World War I; The House of the Dead (Vasili Fyodorov, 1932), a biography of...

[:0-6] Острова. Михаил Жаров (in Russian)

[7] Soviet Film 1972 — Page 56 At the request of the British National Film Centre, the Archives supplied the British Film Museum with a number of films for the Dostoyevsky jubilee, among them Ivan Pyryev's screen adaptation of the Idiot (1958), also St Petersburg Night, made by Grigori Roshal and Vera Stroyeva in 1934, and The House of the Dead (1932), directed by Vassili Fyodorov.

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