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Video: Frida: The difficult fate of the "camp idiots" who wrote the script for "Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson" and other cult Soviet films
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
"Fridunskiy" is a tandem of two talented writers, who wrote only one story and an autobiographical book "58 ½: Notes of a Camp Fool", written after the death of one of them. And they gained fame thanks to their scripts, according to which wonderful films were shot - "", "", "", "", "", "" and many others.
“You and I are now inseparable, like two fingers on one hand. Here … If you don't mind …"
Their creative tandem was formed thanks to the case when the children were fourteen years old, they studied at the same school. Then they wrote their first script for a joke - a parody of the film "Children of Captain Grant". After that, they were already inseparable all their lives. In 1940, they entered VGIK together. During the entrance exams, they asked permission to write one examination paper for two - "…".
Although they were different: Valery was impulsive and cheerful, and Julius was restraint itself, there was something in common in these two "bespectacled" people - both were reputed to be smart, intelligent gentlemen, and the girls liked them very much.
They did not have to finish their studies - the war began. But in 1941, both of them were not taken to the army because of poor eyesight.
Article 58 …
But three years later, friends still managed to enroll in volunteers and they went to the front in different directions. But they never had a chance to defend their homeland. On the way, both of them were arrested, removed directly from the train, and presented with an absurd charge - "". And they went to forced labor camps for 10 years.
Other students were involved in the same case. In total, 13 young people were arrested - friends who were gathered by one company in a communal apartment on the Arbat. The group was charged with preparing an assassination attempt on I. Stalin during his passage along the Arbat to the Kremlin. For some reason, Julius Dunsky appeared as the main executor, who was supposed to fire a machine gun at the passing car of the leader. And the conspirators were supposedly going to take the machine gun out of the downed enemy bomber … Many years later, Dunsky, smiling, recalled how they were arrested, brought for interrogation to the investigator. And at that time he was busy with stitching a bundle of papers. "" - Dunsky asked him. "".
After serving in the camp from bell to bell for 10 years and leaving in one day, the friends stayed in a settlement in the town of Inta, located in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
Only in 1956, after rehabilitation, did the friends return to Moscow. Many returned from the camps embittered, confused, not understanding how to continue to live, Valery and Julius came out wise and kind, with a strong core inside.
Even in the camp they did not submit to the power of the thieves, having received a knife wound there … If necessary, the puny Dunsky, without hesitation, could rush at any bestial criminal.
Dunsky and Fried never considered their stay in the camps as a universal tragedy, but only one of the facts of their personal biography, which must be experienced and which may even turn out to be useful for their further creativity. They tried to treat many things with humor, as if it was not with them, but in some film, and this position helped them survive there. At the settlement in Inta, they decided to write a script for the film
"", And a few years later the film was staged. They tried not to write about camp life. Although Fried had an idea for a book about his long-term wanderings in "", he realized it only after the death of his friend. The book is called "", it is written quite easily and with humor.
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Their fruitful creative life began in Moscow, 37 scripts for films were written. Friends lived in the same house, in the same entrance, in neighboring apartments. They often called themselves "Fridunskiy", others called them "Frieds". They instilled in their wives that "".
However, the creative process was not easy - it often came to scandals, slamming doors. But after sitting apart for a while, they made peace, and the work continued until the next quarrel.
Unfortunately, the years spent in the camp had a very negative impact on the health of Yuliy Dunsky. Exhausted by illness, in 1982 he decided to end his life so as not to suffer himself and not to burden his family. I just wrote a note to my wife: "". Valery outlived his friend by 16 years.
"", - so Dunsky and Fried said. This expression can be fully attributed to them.
I lived a bright and short life Vladimir Nielsen is a bourgeois who created the main Soviet movie hits and was shot for espionage.
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