Mister Iks

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Mister X
Directed byYuli Khmelnitsky
Written byYuli Khmelnitsky
Nora Rubinstein
StarringGeorg Ots
CinematographyYuli Khmelnitsky
Edited byN. Razumova
Music byImre Kálmán
Production
company
Release date
  • 1958 (1958)
Running time
95 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Mister X (Russian: Мистер Икс, romanized: Mister Iks) is a Russian musical comedy film directed by Yuli Khmelnitsky. It is based on the Leningrad Theatre of Musical Comedy operetta of the same name from 1956. The operetta itself was a Russian adaptation of Emmerich Kálmán's Die Zirkusprinzessin.[1][2]

Filming began in 1957, with many of the actors and artists from the Leningrad Theatre working on the film. It premiered in the Soviet Union and other countries on the May 2nd, 1958.[3][4]

Plot

A mysterious man under the name Mister Iks performs in the circle, playing violin, on a chair suspended in the air by ropes. His breathtakingly sad melodies reflect his internal turmoil — his love with a noble lady and the fact his relationship is frowned upon by society. A beautiful story of friendship, love, and circus are accompanied by the voices of the actors.[5]

Although the music is from Kálmán's operetta, the setting was changed from Tsarist Russia to France[6].

At one point, Marie Latouche performs the 20 minute dance on the drum, which was made to out do Lyubov Orlova's famous dance on the gun in Circus (1936).

Cast

Crew


Changes from the operetta

Although the film was based on Die Zirkusprinzessin, The Circus Princess by the Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán, which had premiered at Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 26 March 1926, significant changes had to be made because the operetta was set in Tsarist Russia and as such had many themes which were unacceptable to the censors.[8] The film was moved from Saint Petersburg to Paris, the characters became French, and Hussar Aria of Mister X was replaced by Marine Aria.[9] The actor Grigory Yaron who played Pelican wrote:

No any Kalman's operetta had so many different variants in the USSR as The Circus Princess, and when it had the first appearance in the Soviet Union, the operetta had one embodiment in Moscow, and different one in Leningrad. So, the first comic of the theatrical troupe in Moscow portrayed the Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia during his exile in Paris. Instead of the troupe a rich American appeared in Leningrad theatre, where Pelican was portrayed as a waiter working at a restaurant while at the same time as a White Russian General; emigres disappeared from further variants of this operetta[10].


References

  1. ^ Государственный регистр фильмов
  2. ^ Зоя Виноградова: биография и творчество. Творческие достижения в театральной жизни.
  3. ^ Мистер Икс on КИНО@mail.ru
  4. ^ Мистер Икс on KinoPoisk
  5. ^ Khmelnitsky, Yuli, Mister X, Georg Ots, Marina Yurasova, Anatoly Korolkevich, retrieved 2017-10-22
  6. ^ "Мистер Икс". Теле- и художественные фильмы. Russia-K. Retrieved 2013-12-30.
  7. ^ Санкт-Петербургские Ведомости
  8. ^ Traubner, Richard (2003) p. 271.
  9. ^ Интересные факты о фильме «Мистер Икс» (1958)
  10. ^ Grigory Yaron: О любимом жанре

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