Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Fr.: L'enfance de Gorky) (Detstvo Gorkogo) (Kino Academia. Vol. 6) (Hyperkino) (RUSCICO) (2 DVD)

…The late 19th century. The city of Nizhny Novgorod. Wharves, the Volga accent, songs and people – good and bad, wretched and cruel. That was the atmosphere in which Alyosha Peshkov, the future great Russian writer Maxim Gorky, spent his childhood.
…His life in the Kashirin family was not easy: his uncles’ constant squabbling and fights for inheritance, beatings for a slightest fault. Only one person, his grandmother Akulina Ivanovna, pities the boy. After his grandfather got absolutely ruined, Alyosha had to earn his living himself. And he goes “into the world”…

“Donskoy’s film is one of the noblest works produced in the USSR before the war…”
(critic Jay Leyda)

The role of Alyosha Peshkov was the first and only film work of Alexei Lyarsky, who was killed near Leningrad in 1943.



Awards:
• USSR State Prize, 2nd Degree for the films "Childhood of Maxim Gorky" and "My Apprenticeship" to director Mark Donskoy, actress Varvara Massalitinova, 1941
• IX IFF at Venice (Italy) Italian Journalists; Special Prize to the trilogy ("Childhood of Maxim Gorky", "My Apprenticeship", "My Universities"), 1948
• IFF at Stockholm (Sweden) - First Prize to the trilogy ("Childhood of Maxim Gorky", "My Apprenticeship", "My Universities"), 1949
• XI IFF at Edinburgh (Great Britain) - British Film Critic Richard Winnington Award for 1954 to the Gorky film trilogy ("Childhood of Maxim Gorky", "My Apprenticeship", "My Universities"), 1955



Film made in Hyperkino format with interactive academic commentaries.

Hyperkino Commentary by Aleksandr Deriabin.

Disc 1: Hyperkino annotated version (Russian and English)
Disc 2: Subtitled version (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese)


HYPERKINO is a world premiere of the unique innovative method of the annotated and illustrated edition of films on contemporary digital formats. The method was developed by Natascha Drubek-Meyer and Nikolai Izvolov.

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...Konets 19 veka. Nizhniy Novgorod. Pristani, volzhskiy govor, pesni i lyudi – durnye i horoshie, neschastnye i zhestokie. V etoy atmosfere proshlo detstvo Aleshi Peshkova, vposledstvii velikogo russkogo pisatelya Maksima Gorkogo.
...Tyazhelo zhilos emu v seme Kashirinyh: rugan, draki dyadev iz-za nasledstva, poboi za maleyshie provinnosti. Tolko odin chelovek – babushka Akulina Ivanovna – zhaleet malchika. Kogda ded okonchatelno razorilsya, Alesha vynuzhden zarabatyvat na zhizn sam. I on uhodit «v lyudi»…

«Film Donskogo – odno iz samyh blagorodnyh proizvedeniy, postavlennyh v SSSR do voyny…»
(kritik Dzhey Leyda)

Rol Aleshi Peshkova – pervaya i edinstvennaya rabota v kino Alekseya Lyarskogo, pogibshego v 1943 g. pod Leningradom.



Nagrady:
• Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR II stepeni za filmy "Detstvo Gorkogo" i "V lyudyah" rezhisseru Marku Donskomu, aktrise Vere Masalitinovoy, 1941
• IX MKF v Venetsii (Italiya) - Spetsialnaya premiya trilogii ("Detstvo Gorkogo", "V lyudyah", "Moi universitety") italyanskih zhurnalistov, 1948
• MKF v Stokgolme (Shvetsiya) - Pervaya premiya trilogii ("Detstvo Gorkogo", "V lyudyah", "Moi universitety"), 1949
• XI MKF v Edinburge (Angliya) - Premiya imeni angliyskogo kinokritika Richarda Uinningtona za 1954 g. trilogii o Gorkom ("Detstvo Gorkogo", "V lyudyah", "Moi universitety"), 1955


Film v formate "giperkino" (Hyperkino).

Avtor kommentariev: Aleksandr Deryabin.

Disk 1: Hyperkino kommentirovannaya versiya (Russkiy, Angliyskiy)
Disk 2: Versiya filma s subtitrami (Angliyskiy, Frantsuzkiy, Nemetskiy, Ispanskiy, Italyanskiy, Portugalskiy)


HYPERKINO yavlyaetsya mirovoy premeroy unikalnogo innovatsionnogo metoda kommentirovannogo i illyustrirovannogo izdaniya filmov na sovremennyh tsifrovyh nositelyah. Etot metod yavlyaetsya nauchnoy razrabotkoy Natashi Drubek i Nikolaya Izvolova.
Ceriya "Kinoakademiya" vpervye dast vozmozhnost prosmatrivat film, i poluchit podrobnye kommentarii luchshego spetsialista Dzheremi Hiksa, v oblasti istorii i teorii kino. Kommentarii soprovozhdayutsya multimediynymi illyustratsiyami s ispolzovaniem unikalnyh arhivnyh i dokumentalnyh materialov, kotorye pozvolyat zritelyu pogruzitsya v atmosferu sozdaniya filma i epohu, ego porodivshuyu.