Grigori KOZINTSEV
Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ
Grigori KOZINTSEV
USSR, 1957, 100mn 
Colour, fiction
Don Quixote
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Дон Кихот

 

 Don Quichotte

 Don Khikhot

 
Directed by : Grigori KOZINTSEV (Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ)
Writing credits : Yevgeni SCHWARTZ (Евгений ШВАРЦ)
 
Cast
Tamara AGAMIROVA (Тамара АГАМИРОВА) ...Lady Altisidora
Serafima BIRMAN (Серафима БИРМАН) ...L’économe
Nikolay CHERKASOV (Николай ЧЕРКАСОВ) ...Don Quichotte de la Manche
Bruno FREUNDLISH (Брюно ФРЕЙНДЛИХ) ...Le duc
Galina GRIGOREVA (Галина ГРИГОРЬЕВА) ...La nièce
Lyudmila KASYANOVA (Людмила КАСЬЯНОВА) ...Aldonsa
Viktor KOLPAKOV (Виктор КОЛПАКОВ) ...Le barbier
Vasili MAKSIMOV (Василий МАКСИМОВ) ...Le prêtre
Yuri TOLUBEYEV (Юрий ТОЛУБЕЕВ) ...Sancho Pança
Lidia VERTINSKAYA (Лидия ВЕРТИНСКАЯ) ...la duchesse
Olga VIKLAND (Ольга ВИКЛАНД)
Georgi VITSIN (Георгий ВИЦИН) ...Sanson Carrasco
Galina VOLSHEK (Галина ВОЛЧЕК)
 
Cinematography : Apollinari DUDKO (Аполлинарий ДУДКО), Andrey MOSKVIN (Андрей МОСКВИН), Eduard ROZOVSKY (Эдуард РОЗОВСКИЙ)
Production design : Natan ALTMAN (Натан АЛЬТМАН), Yevgeni ENEJ (Евгений ЕНЕЙ)
Sound : Ilya VOLK (Илья ВОЛК)
Production : Lenfilm
Release date in Russia : 23/05/1957
 
Sites : Page Allociné, page IMDb
Release date in France : 2006-07-12, Site

Awards :
Troisième prix et prix de la meilleure image au festival de Moscou, 1958
Prix Femina du cinéma et diplôme du festival de Bruxelles, 1958

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Bach Films
Editor : Ruscico. 1999.
Langues : RU EN FR - Sous-titres : RU EN ES IT DE FR JP
Bonus : Interview de Rozovski, photoalbum

Plot synopsis
Based upon “the world’s first novel” (Carlos Fuentes) by Miguel de Cervantes, “The Ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha”.
Writing “Don Quixote” in the early 17th century was a necessary undertaking, if, perhaps, fatal; in the early 20th century it’s all but unfeasible. Jorge Luis BorgesA poll by the Norwegian Nobel Institute of 100 most famous modern writers named Cervantes’ novel the best book of all times and peoples! A brilliant acting cast – N. Cherkasov (“Alexander Nevsky”), S. Birman (“Ivan the Terrible”, B. Freindlikh (“Twelfth Night”, “Different Fortunes”), L. Vertinskaya (“Sadko”), G. Vitsin (“Gentlemen of Fortune”), Yu. Tolubeyev (“The Inspector General”), G. Volchek (“King Lear”) – in the legendary literary adaptation of the great G. Kozintsev about the amusing and touching adventures of hidalgo Alonso Quixano who, being in love with books of chivalry, decided to make a knight-errant of himself and set out on the march…
Source : www.ruscico.com
 

Commentaries and bibliography
EN ATTENDANT SANCHO [A propos de différentes adaptations cinématographiques de Don Quichotte], Olivier PERE, Arte, 2011
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Thaw Films : 1953-1968, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2016
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2013
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2006-07-12
- Russian films in the cinema Arlequin, Paris (France), 2006
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1993
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1957