"Lenin in October" and "Lenin in 1918" are two very famous pre-Soviet films, but few viewers notice that Stalin in the two films is not played by the same actor.
Lenin in October was filmed in 1937, and today it still seems that the film still has some traces of the silent film era.
We note that Chaplin's last silent film, The Modern Age, was filmed in 1936, and it can be seen that the era of Lenin in October was a period of transition between silent and sound films.
In Lenin in October, many of the plots are expressed through subtitles.
The manipulation of the film lens is also more like the audience line of sight of the stage play, and the director concentrates the characters in the picture frame, faces the camera, and performs a stage-style performance.
In the footage of Stalin first appearing in Lenin in October, we can see that when Lenin spoke, in the background, several figures present at the meeting were put in the same frame.
Among them, we can see that Stalin was behind Lenin, smoking a pipe, and making a variety of expressions in boredom.
On the other side of Lenin, Dzerzhinsky looked at Lenin who was speaking with his exaggerated eyes, which gave people a very strange feeling.
Such a screen position is not so much a reproduction of the real situation, but rather a need to take care of the needs of the camera, deliberately arranging the characters on the same side, so as to meet the requirements of all the characters in this scene.
Curiously, Lenin in October does not show much of Lenin's interaction with Stalin. The film mostly looks at Lenin's first meeting after his return from the perspective of Lenin's guard, Varisi. Although Stalin's name is mentioned repeatedly, the private communication with Lenin is not as close and varied as the fictional Vasily in the film.
When the meeting was over, Stalin appeared in the film giving Vasily instructions to protect Lenin, after which the people present at the meeting left in batches. The film also uses a lengthy scene to tell Stalin that he then walked out of the meeting hut.
Stalin reappeared at a congress at which Lenin was speaking after the victory of the October Revolution. Stalin listened to Lenin's words on the background wall and made a thoughtful expression, but he could hardly see where he had a great deal of skill.
In Lenin in October, the actor who played Stalin was named Gaurid Stab, a translation of the name in soviet cinematic works of that year.
The translated name that is now translated with the translation software is: Semin Leontevich Godhtab.
He was born on December 19, 1906, and died on April 20, 1971 in Kirov Oblast, USSR.
In Lenin in 1918, Stalin was the most famous Gaylovani who shaped this image. The film was made in 1939, two years after Lenin in October.
Stalin in Lenin in 1918
Obviously, it makes sense not to use Goryd stab as Stalin in Lenin in 1918.
The appearance of Gabrid stab looks relatively flat, while The shape of Gallovani's face is very three-dimensional, especially from the side, his silhouette is convex and concave, which outlines the lines of the character's face very well, especially if he has a pair of extraordinary eyes, what to describe?
Guerovani's version of Stalin
It can be compared to the description of Guan Gong in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "Dan phoenix eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows, dignified appearance, majestic." ”
The Gallovani version of Stalin had this characteristic.
The image of Stalin in Lenin in October is not well said, a little like Chaplin, in the lens, the eyes turn softly, large and lightless, empty and empty.
In Lenin in 1918, Guerovani immediately raised Stalin to a higher level, heroic and imposing.
No wonder Stalin was also full of praise for Guerovani, believing that he played himself as the best and most charismatic.
Guerovani then basically contracted the responsibility of Stalin's best performer.
Stills from Conquering Berlin
One of his best performances was as Stalin in Conquering Berlin.
In the film, he is tall and mighty, and his temperament is extraordinary, like a god and a god. Especially in the last scene of the film, the film fictionalizes the scene of Stalin coming to Berlin, and even more shows Stalin's brilliant spirit beyond measure, reaching the peak status of Stalin's image shaping.
Stalin's character, Gaurid Stab, in Lenin in October, naturally could not compete with Gaylovani, but he later starred in several films and continued to play Stalin in the film.
In fact, Gabrid Stab also played a role in "Lenin in 1918", and now you can see his name from the cast list, but it is impossible to verify who he played.
Gored Stab' starring stalinist films after Lenin in October, let's comb through them a bit:
In 1941, he starred as Stalin in The First Cavalry Corps.
We now know that Babel's novel The Cavalry Army is very famous and represents a common attitude towards the First Cavalry Army.
At that time Babel's novel was published, Budyonny was very annoyed, scolding the novel, today we see a lot of translations of this novel, in the book publishing industry has been rotten, it can be seen that this is just a collection of short stories, the writing is quite obscure, there is no unified plot and characters, recording the cruelty and absurdity of the war at that time, some of which intersect with the description of "How Steel is Made".
Vishnevsky, the screenwriter of "The First Cavalry Army", in response to the extremely strong naturalistic tendencies in Babel's novels, created this script from a positive point of view, reflecting the positive energy of this unit, and Budyonny was very appreciative and demanded that it be staged immediately.
Time has passed, and the influence of this script has been far less than Babel's tasteless novel. A colleague of mine, who once admired him, bought this Babel novel, but he did not read it himself, but I took it to read part of it. The harm of the cavalry army to the local people depicted in it is quite shocking, but the author's language is full of ridiculous humor, leaving a trace of historical absurdity.
Vishnevsky, the author of the script for The First Cavalry Corps, was also the screenwriter of the later Unforgettable 1919.
First Cavalry Corps, 1984 edition
The theme of "The First Cavalry Army" was put on the screen again in 1984. In 1986, it was introduced into China by Shanghai Translation Factory. At that time, it was a 70mm widescreen movie, and the scene was still very grand.
In 1942, Gaurid stab played Stalin in Alexander Parhomenko.
Directed by Lukov, the film depicts several clips from the Soviet Civil War, which is a biopic, and the title is the name of the character.
In 1942, Goridstadtb played Stalin in His Name is Sukhbaatar (1942, co-directed by Zalsi and Heifetz), a depiction of the Struggle for Mongolian National Liberation.
After that, there is no record of Gaurid stab as Stalin.
The other Stalin actor, Gailovani, is like a day in the sky, in the shaping of Stalin's image, as if into no man's land, thriving.
After Stalin's death, Galovani plummeted, he lost the opportunity to play Stalin, and the Stalin-themed films he played in the past, in which the relevant scenes were also greatly reduced.
The depressed Guerovani died on December 21, 1956 in Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia), at the age of 63 (born 1893).
Gabrid Stab, who played Stalin in Lenin in October, lived to 1971 at the age of 65.
Today, we can find clear versions of Lenin in October and Lenin in 1918 on the Internet, but notice that in this clear version, all the parts involving stalin's plot are edited from the domestic version.
That is to say, the current clear version should be from the version that was cut from the previous Su. The domestic producers, in contrast to the domestic version of the release, inserted stalin's deleted parts into the deleted version and synthesized a finished film that is currently closest to the early screening version.
According to records, the film Lenin in 1918 has three versions. The original features Stalin in six scenes. In the 1958 version, most of Stalin's scenes were cut and modified. In the 1963 version, Stalin did not appear at all.
In any case, Lenin in October and Lenin in 1918 have their logical self-consistency.
In particular, "Lenin in 1918" is much more mature than "Lenin in October". Among them, the fictional character lines are all in service to the plot and theme.
Some of these episodes were considered untrue by later critics.
For example, in "Lenin in 1918", there is a clue about a little girl whose mother starved to death, and Lenin, when he heard about it, was so angry that he ordered the shooting of the speculators who had hoarded their curiosity.
Later, after Stalin returned from the front, he also picked up the little girl with great humanity, portraying the inner feelings of the characters, the clues of the little girl, and playing a role in the finishing touch in the movie.
But later comments suggested that how the little girl ran into the tightly controlled Kremlin was clearly not true.
In fact, artistic creation must have reasonable imagination and fiction. If you nitpick and nitpick, all the movies will be blown apart.
But at least it can be shown that the fictional clues in Lenin in 1918 still play a benign role in shaping the characters and responding to the theme.
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