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- Sahara
- Three Russian girls
- Battle Beyond the Sun
- The Magical Journey of Sinbad
- I love NY
- We wish you happiness
Video: 6 foreign remakes based on popular Soviet films
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It turns out that not only our masters of cinematography can spy on ideas from their Western colleagues. Foreign directors from time to time turn to familiar Soviet and Russian films. In remakes, the action is often transferred to another place, and sometimes to another time, but the storyline of the picture remains recognizable. This review contains the most famous foreign remakes based on Soviet films.
Sahara
Is there a remake of a remake? In the case of the film "Sahara" directed by Zoltan Korda, it turned out that way. At one time, Soviet director Mikhail Romm made the film Thirteen, borrowing an idea from British director John Ford in The Lost Patrol. Mikhail Romm released his film in 1936. The Red Army men are in a hurry to reach the railway, because for them the war has already ended, a peaceful and happy future lies ahead. But on the way, they encounter a gang of Basmachi, in the confrontation with which almost all the heroes die.
Zoltan Kodra almost completely preserved the plot of the original, only transferred the action to the Sahara during the Second World War. The main characters were tankers, and the German battalion opposed them. Later, in 1953 and 1995, two more remakes of the same picture were released on American screens.
Three Russian girls
The film by Viktor Eisymont "Frontline Friends" shows the Soviet-Finnish war, the front-line hospital and the events taking place with the main character Natalya Matveyeva, who volunteered to be closer to her fiancé. The picture was released in 1941, just a month before the start of the Great Patriotic War.
Less than two years later, the film by Henry Kesler and Fyodor Ocep was shown in American cinemas. In accordance with the changed circumstances, the action takes place already during the Second World War, and among the participants in the events appears a classic American hero in the person of a test pilot.
At the same time, both films were made with such high quality that both were awarded high awards: the Soviet one received the Stalin Prize, and the American one was nominated for the Oscar.
Battle Beyond the Sun
The Soviet science fiction film "The Sky Calls", filmed in 1959, tells the story of the confrontation between the Soviet and American conquerors of space. Naturally, the plot could not do without anti-American propaganda and glorification of the space achievements of the Soviet Union.
Three years after the release of the Soviet film, the American remake of "Battle Outside the Sun" appeared on the screens, interpreted by Roger Corman and Francis Ford Coppola.
The American film was shot without the slightest hint of political overtones, there are no longer Russian and American spaceships in it, but the rivalry between the North and the South is shown. But there were Martian monsters fighting among themselves.
The Magical Journey of Sinbad
In 1962, Roger Korman again turned to Soviet cinema. This time he was inspired by the tale of Alexander Ptushko "Sadko". True, he did not shoot the entire film again, but he re-edited and dubbed it according to the script by Francis Ford Coppola.
The picture received a new name, the main character was given a new name Sinbad, and all songs disappeared from the original version of the film. At the same time, the director included a voiceover in his version, and in the credits indicated only the American actors who dubbed the film.
I love NY
Bollywood version of Eldar Ryazanov's favorite New Year comedy "Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath!" was filmed in 2013. Instead of Zhenya Lukashin, the main character was an Indian emigrant living in Chicago, Nadenka was replaced by Tikku, a New York teacher, whose apartment Randir Singh ended up in after a grand party. And it is not the mother who is trying to influence her son, but the father of the protagonist.
The film was shot in the best traditions of Indian cinema, Indian songs and music are constantly heard in it. But the plot of the original is guessed almost from the first frames.
We wish you happiness
Another remake of "Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath!" This time performed by filmmakers from North Korea. The action, of course, was moved to Pyongyang, and the film itself is literally imbued with ideology. The plot of the film develops in full accordance with the decisions of the party and government, the main characters turn out to be patriots of their country, but the music that sounds in the film is completely borrowed from the original.
Screen adaptations of works of classical literature cannot be classified as remakes, although foreign directors have repeatedly turned to them to create their films. Among contemporary authors, there have not yet been found those who could interest foreign cinematographers. And yet I want to believe: talented contemporaries simply have not yet found their director, and they have good film adaptations yet to come.
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