Кинофильм сказка о потерянном времени

Tale about the Lost Time
Directed by	Aleksandr Ptushko
Written by	Anna Rodionova
Starring	Grigoriy Plotkin Vera Volkova Lidia Konstantinova
Cinematography	Samuel Rubashkin
Music by	Igor Morozov
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1964
Running time	76 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Tale about the Lost Time (Russian: Сказка о потерянном времени, romanized: Skazka o poteryannom vremeni) is a 1964 Soviet fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Ptushko. It is based on a tale by Evgeny Schwartz.^[1][2]

Plot[edit]

The protagonist, third-grader Petya Zubov, is first shown as a lazy boy who is wasting time. After waking up in the morning, he walks around the city, as he is not worried about arriving late for school. Once upon a time, four evil wizards, whose main mission in life is to do bad to people, realize that they are old and cannot work the way they used to. They decide to regain their youth. To do this they must find a few young lazy children to collect time that is spent ineptly, and then use it to make and eat flatbread.

The wizards set out on a quest. They manage to find children who are wasting their time (including Petya), and to collect their lost time into sacks. After that, the children instantly age. The wizards make flatbread from flour and add the collected time. However, they eat more than necessary, and they turn into children. After coming to school, Petya sees that he has grown old. However, he thinks he is just still asleep. After deliberating, he decides not to wake up yet. After seeing his class and introducing himself as his own grandfather, he goes to the city, where he tries himself in various adult roles, which end in failure because he is not well-versed in anything.

He decides to wake up and discovers that he cannot. Even his own mother cannot recognize him. Only his dog Druzhok still comes to him. Lacking money, Petya decides to go with his dog to the forest where no humans have ever set foot. Thus, he enters the Magic Forest, where evil wizards live. Reaching their dwelling, Petya finds nobody at home. Entering the empty house, he talks to the magic cuckoo clock and gives it water, which the wizards never did.

The cuckoo agrees to help Petya back to his former state and explains to him that it is merely necessary to turn the hour hand on the wizard’s watch back three times, while chanting the spell. The spell will be broken, and the wizards will disappear. This should be done before sunset, but after this it will be impossible to remove the spell. Petya learns from the cuckoo that two girls and one boy who turned into old people, and if Petya turns the arrow without their presence, he will turn into a boy, but they will never return to their proper ages. Petya decides to first find the children, and then break the spell.

While the wizards are making dirty tricks, Petya and Druzhok look for and find the transformed children. The wizards realize that their spell is over and hurry home, trying to overtake the old men and hide the clock. A pursuit commences. All arrive almost simultaneously to the house of magicians. But Petya and the other enchanted children remove the spell and become children again, and the wizards disappear, and they all lived happily ever after.

The film plot is harder than the book (book is even shorter that The Nutcracker and the Mouse King and has only 3 mages/children) and short film.

Cast[edit]

Leading roles[edit]

• Grigory Plotkin – Petya Zubov, a pupil of the 3rd grade «B» (voiced by Maria Vinogradova)
• Vera Volkova – Marusya Morozova
• Lydia Konstantinova – Nadia
• Mikhail Kulaev – Vasya
• Oleg Anofriyev – old Petya
• Lyudmila Shagalova – old Marousia
• Rina Zelyonaya – old Nadia
• Savely Kramarov – old Vasya

Evil Wizards[edit]

• Sergey Martinson – Prokofy Prokofievich
• Georgy Vitsin – Andrey Andreevich
• Irina Murzaeva – Anna Ivanovna
• Valentina Telegina – Avdotya Petrovna
• Evgeny Sokolov – Prokofy Prokofievich after aging in reverse
• Sergey Karponosov – Andrei Andreevich after aging in reverse
• Zinaida Kukushkina – Anna Ivanovna after aging in reverse
• Tatyana Dontsenko – Avdotya Petrovna after aging in reverse

Supporting roles[edit]

• Yury Chekulaev – truck driver
• Vadim Grachyov – Maslyuchenko, police sergeant
• Yevgeny Morgunov – owner of «Moskvich»
• Grigory Shpigel – first aid doctor / apple buyer in a hat
• Eva Sinelnikova – cuckoo (voice)

Episodic roles[edit]

• Nina Grebeshkova – Marya Sergeevna, teacher of the 3rd grade «B»
• Margarita Zharova – a pie seller
• Muse of Krepkogorskaya – mother of Petya
• Alexandra Panova is an old woman with a string bag
• V. Ryabtseva – head of the department in the magazine «Murzilka»
• Zoya Fyodorova – aunt Natasha, cloakroom attendant at the school
• Zoya Vasilkova – Lisa, the saleswoman of apples (in credits as «Z. Chekulaev»)
• Sergei Romodanov – grandfather with a newspaper on a bench
• Ivan Ryzhov – Petrovich, foreman at the construction site
• Nikolay Yudin – fisherman
• Yan Yanakiev – Ivan Gurgenovich, Petya’s neighbor (in credits as «K. Yanakiev»)
• Marina Kuznetsova – Zina Kutiapina, the girl at the blackboard
• Yevgeny Eliseev – Kolya Makarov, Petya’s classmate

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Tale About the Lost Time at IMDb

Tale about the Lost Time
Directed by	Aleksandr Ptushko
Written by	Anna Rodionova
Starring	Grigoriy Plotkin Vera Volkova Lidia Konstantinova
Cinematography	Samuel Rubashkin
Music by	Igor Morozov
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1964
Running time	76 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Tale about the Lost Time (Russian: Сказка о потерянном времени, romanized: Skazka o poteryannom vremeni) is a 1964 Soviet fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Ptushko. It is based on a tale by Evgeny Schwartz.^[1][2]

Plot[edit]

The protagonist, third-grader Petya Zubov, is first shown as a lazy boy who is wasting time. After waking up in the morning, he walks around the city, as he is not worried about arriving late for school. Once upon a time, four evil wizards, whose main mission in life is to do bad to people, realize that they are old and cannot work the way they used to. They decide to regain their youth. To do this they must find a few young lazy children to collect time that is spent ineptly, and then use it to make and eat flatbread.

The wizards set out on a quest. They manage to find children who are wasting their time (including Petya), and to collect their lost time into sacks. After that, the children instantly age. The wizards make flatbread from flour and add the collected time. However, they eat more than necessary, and they turn into children. After coming to school, Petya sees that he has grown old. However, he thinks he is just still asleep. After deliberating, he decides not to wake up yet. After seeing his class and introducing himself as his own grandfather, he goes to the city, where he tries himself in various adult roles, which end in failure because he is not well-versed in anything.

He decides to wake up and discovers that he cannot. Even his own mother cannot recognize him. Only his dog Druzhok still comes to him. Lacking money, Petya decides to go with his dog to the forest where no humans have ever set foot. Thus, he enters the Magic Forest, where evil wizards live. Reaching their dwelling, Petya finds nobody at home. Entering the empty house, he talks to the magic cuckoo clock and gives it water, which the wizards never did.

The cuckoo agrees to help Petya back to his former state and explains to him that it is merely necessary to turn the hour hand on the wizard’s watch back three times, while chanting the spell. The spell will be broken, and the wizards will disappear. This should be done before sunset, but after this it will be impossible to remove the spell. Petya learns from the cuckoo that two girls and one boy who turned into old people, and if Petya turns the arrow without their presence, he will turn into a boy, but they will never return to their proper ages. Petya decides to first find the children, and then break the spell.

While the wizards are making dirty tricks, Petya and Druzhok look for and find the transformed children. The wizards realize that their spell is over and hurry home, trying to overtake the old men and hide the clock. A pursuit commences. All arrive almost simultaneously to the house of magicians. But Petya and the other enchanted children remove the spell and become children again, and the wizards disappear, and they all lived happily ever after.

The film plot is harder than the book (book is even shorter that The Nutcracker and the Mouse King and has only 3 mages/children) and short film.

Cast[edit]

Leading roles[edit]

• Grigory Plotkin – Petya Zubov, a pupil of the 3rd grade «B» (voiced by Maria Vinogradova)
• Vera Volkova – Marusya Morozova
• Lydia Konstantinova – Nadia
• Mikhail Kulaev – Vasya
• Oleg Anofriyev – old Petya
• Lyudmila Shagalova – old Marousia
• Rina Zelyonaya – old Nadia
• Savely Kramarov – old Vasya

Evil Wizards[edit]

• Sergey Martinson – Prokofy Prokofievich
• Georgy Vitsin – Andrey Andreevich
• Irina Murzaeva – Anna Ivanovna
• Valentina Telegina – Avdotya Petrovna
• Evgeny Sokolov – Prokofy Prokofievich after aging in reverse
• Sergey Karponosov – Andrei Andreevich after aging in reverse
• Zinaida Kukushkina – Anna Ivanovna after aging in reverse
• Tatyana Dontsenko – Avdotya Petrovna after aging in reverse

Supporting roles[edit]

• Yury Chekulaev – truck driver
• Vadim Grachyov – Maslyuchenko, police sergeant
• Yevgeny Morgunov – owner of «Moskvich»
• Grigory Shpigel – first aid doctor / apple buyer in a hat
• Eva Sinelnikova – cuckoo (voice)

Episodic roles[edit]

• Nina Grebeshkova – Marya Sergeevna, teacher of the 3rd grade «B»
• Margarita Zharova – a pie seller
• Muse of Krepkogorskaya – mother of Petya
• Alexandra Panova is an old woman with a string bag
• V. Ryabtseva – head of the department in the magazine «Murzilka»
• Zoya Fyodorova – aunt Natasha, cloakroom attendant at the school
• Zoya Vasilkova – Lisa, the saleswoman of apples (in credits as «Z. Chekulaev»)
• Sergei Romodanov – grandfather with a newspaper on a bench
• Ivan Ryzhov – Petrovich, foreman at the construction site
• Nikolay Yudin – fisherman
• Yan Yanakiev – Ivan Gurgenovich, Petya’s neighbor (in credits as «K. Yanakiev»)
• Marina Kuznetsova – Zina Kutiapina, the girl at the blackboard
• Yevgeny Eliseev – Kolya Makarov, Petya’s classmate

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Tale About the Lost Time at IMDb

Владимир (Вольф) Александрович Лифшиц — русский советский писатель, поэт, драматург, сатирик, сценарист.
Родился 23 октября 1913 года в Харькове. Семья часто переезжала — Ростов-на-Дону, подмосковное Петровское, Москва. В Москве в школе учился в параллельных классах и был дружен с будущим известным лётчиком Марком Галлаем. Окончив девятилетку, поступил в Ленинградский финансово-экономический институт, который окончил в 1933 году. Был рекомендован в аспирантуру, но как не имеющий стажа распределен в Иркутск, экономистом Промбанка. Но всё своё свободное время юный экономист писал стихи. Они у него очень хорошо получались. И он носил их в разные редакции газет и журналов — а вдруг понравятся и их напечатают?! Не отработав и года самовольно прервал работу и вернулся в Ленинград.
Владимир Лифшиц начал публиковать стихи в 1934-м, работал в редакциях журналов «Чиж» и «Звезда». Выступал главным образом как автор стихотворений для детей. Им написаны такие детские сборники стихов, как «Вот они какие», «Весёлый час», «В шутку и всерьёз», «Разговор», «Открытая тетрадь», «Взлётная дорожка», «Назначенный день», «Едем, плаваем, летаем», «Видел сам» и «Невероятное рядом». В1938-1939 гг. в Ленинграде при газете «Смена» возникло «Молодое объединение» поэтов. Там Владимир познакомился с Вадимом Шефнером, Анатолием Чивилихиным, Алексеем Лебедевым, Глебом Чайкиным, Михаилом Троицким и руководителем объединения — Александром Ильичем Гитовичем. А уже в 1939 году Лифшица принимают в Союз писателей СССР.
В 1941 году добровольцем, несмотря на бронь по инвалидности (у него было слабое зрение), поэт записался в народное ополчение.  Был ранен, когда выводил остатки батальона из окружения. Затем был политруком пулеметной роты в 1-й Кировской дивизии, участвовал в боях, позднее служил в армейской газете «Боевая красноармейская». В 1944 году вновь стал строевым политработником, заместителем командира стрелкового батальона, принимал участие в окончательной ликвидации блокады Ленинграда. В сентябре 1944 года его ранили в бою, позже был демобилизован в звании капитана. Награжден орденами и медалями. В блокадном Ленинграде продолжал писать стихи, опубликовав сборники: «Баллада о черством куске», «На берегах Невы» — о беспримерной стойкости ленинградцев.
После войны Владимир Лифшиц выступает не только как поэт, но и прозаик, а впоследствии — и драматург. По следам военных событий им написаны две повести — «Петроградская сторона» и «Семь дней». В книге «Была война» собраны его лучшие прозаические произведения о Великой Отечественной войне.
С конца 1940-х годов жил в Москве. Выпустил около 30 книг стихов. Автор текстов песен ко многим известным советским кинофильмам, в том числе «Девушка без адреса», «Карнавальная ночь» (Песенка о хорошем настроении, Песня о влюблённом пареньке, Пять минут, Таня-Танечка), «Сказка о потерянном времени» и другим.
Преимущественно Лифшиц писал сценарии мультфильмов. Совместно с писателем Всеволодом Вишневским написал сценарий документального фильма «Ленинград».
Ну и, конечно, Владимир Александрович писал пьесы для театра кукол: «Кот Васька и его друзья», «Пять сестёр и Ванька-встанька», «Алёнушка и солдат», «Ищи ветра в поле». Одной из лучших постановок пьес Лифшица стал спектакль Государственного академического Центрального театра кукол имени С. В. Образцова — «Таинственный гиппопотам».
В 1948 году подвергся жестокой официальной критике.
Большой популярностью пользовались его стихи «Баллада о чёрством куске», «Датская легенда» и цикл «Стихи Джемса Клиффорда», в котором под маской вымышленного английского поэта была высказана правда о войне и о жизни в тоталитарном обществе. Широко известны были его сатирические стихи, появлявшиеся в «Литературной газете» под именем «Евгений Сазонов» (коллективный псевдоним).
Умер 9 октября 1978 года. Похоронен на Переделкинском кладбище.
Прекрасный поэт Владимир Лифшиц был смелым, мужественным и благородным человеком. Жизнь его была полна испытаний, он участвовал в самой страшной из бывших на земле войн. Будучи уже совсем не молодым человеком, он внес в поэзию свой основной вклад, который жив и по сей день. Его искренние, душевные стихи трогают нас до слез, дарят тепло, вселяют надежду.