Torchbearers of the city of Syktyvkar.02.11.13
Location: Russian Gymnasium
Director: Julia Prokusheva
Date: 02/11/13
City: Syktyvkar
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Honored Actor of Gulag - Full Movie, English subtitles
This is a film about a theater in Vorkuta labor camp - a town in Gulag in the Soviet Union during the
ruling of Stalin. It tells about unreal conditions in which this theater existed. I was born in Vorkuta and so I wanted more people to know about what happened there, to see what these people went through. Therefore I volunteered to translate it into English.
Liora, the translator
Polish Film Star 1930s: Eugeniusz Bodo - Zrób to tak (Do It So!), 1933
Eugeniusz Bodo & Ork. Syrena Rekord -- Zrób to tak (Do It So) Slow-fox z f-mu „Pieśniarz Warszawy (from the film comedy The Warsaw Troubadour) Muz. Henryk Wars, Tekst: Starski, Nel; Syrena-Electro 1933 (Polish)
NOTE: Eugeniusz Bodo (né Bogdan Junod) was one of the most popular actors in the history of Polish film. Born in Genève, Switzerland, from Polish mother and Swiss father, he travelled with his parents to Poland in 1910s, where his father -- who was an engineer -- opened a movie theatre in Łódź. This fact strongly influenced his biography; early caught by the love of cinema, Bodo would not hear of any serious occupation in his life. In age of 18 he debuted on stage of one of the variétés in Łódź and two years later he could be seen on stages of the most prominent Warsaw cabarets: Bagatela, Qui pro Quo, Morskie Oko. In 1925 he was offered a role in the silent movie (The Rivals), yet the true film career started for him with the advent of the sound cinema. In the 1930s, Bodo became the leading comedy actor and singer in Poland; called, for his excellent looks and temperament, thePolish Maurice Chevalier, Bodo was earning a fortune playing in the grossing film comedies, recording most popular hits for Syrena Electro, Odeon and Columbia, also - advertising cosmetics and clothes for the most snobistic manufacturers (The Old England). His comedies Czy Lucyna to dziewczyna (Is Lucyna A Girl?, 1934), Pieśniarz Warszawy (The Warsaw Troubadour, 1934), Kocha, lubi, szanuje (He Loves Me -- He Loves Me Not, 1934), „Jaśnie pan szofer (His Excellence, A Driver; 1935) or Piętro wyżej (Upstairs, 1937) -- where he was immortalised by his performance as the Polish Mae West who sings Henryk Wars' hit fox-trott Sex Appeal [It's Our Feminine Weapon] -- earned him the title of the King of Polish Silver Screen. Shortly before the outbreak of 2nd WW, Bodo started to turn attention to more serious repertoire. Such was the 1938 film drama Strachy (The Fears) based on prose of the fine young writer Maria Ukniewska, and showing the dark sides of existence of the revue dancers in a big city. Unfortunately, Bodo's plan to produce in autumn 1939, the anti-Nazi thriller Beware of the Spy! failed in the morning of the 1st Sept. 1939, when the first Luftwaffe bombs reached the rooftops of Warsaw apartment houses.
After having left Warsaw in October 1939 and wandering several months around Eastern Poland, which - due to Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of alliance between Nazi Germany and Russia - suddenly bacame part of territory of the Stalinst Russia - Bodo found harbor in the Russia-occupied city of Lwów. The large Polish artists' colony, including many refugees from Warsaw, was organising there - under guidance of Henryk Wars, who was a composer of most of Bodo's pre-war hits -- the Polish trouppe, which obtained Soviet permission to perform - provided, they do it in Russian and solely as the travelling theatre.
Billed as the Tea Jazz (not from the tea, but as abbreviation of Theatre and Jazz) they were giving shows in the whole territory of the Soviet Union -- from Lwów, via Leningrad and Moscow, Ural and Black Sea region to Siberia and back. In spite of hunger, bugs and freezing goods-trains, which were used for transportation, the Tea Jazz was able to enjoy a relative freedom - comparing with the average Soviet citizens. They even recorded several sides for Noginskij Zavod, with Eugeniusz Bodo as a singer. Unfortunately, with the outbreak of Germano-Russian war in June 1941, Bodo made a hasty decision which proved fatal for him. He decided to stray away from the group and travel alone back to Lwów -- with hope, his Swiss citizenship would protect him as well as it would increase his chances for effective negotiations with Soviet authorities about possibility of his emigration to Switzerland, from the territory of former Polish state. Bodo wouldn't listen to any of his friends' arguments, that Russia does not respect any of international civil rights' agreements and therefore, in such state it's better for an individual to stick to a legal group than begin struggle on his own. Bodo returned to Lwów, where shortly after his message presented to a Soviet office about his wish to emmigrate from the Soviet Russia, he was arrested and sent to a labor camp in Kotlas near Arkhangelsk (the Far North of Russia). He died of overwork and hunger in c. 1943 and truth about his death was covered up in Russia until the late 1990s., when Polish tv- film was released presenting available materials about disappearance of Eugeniusz Bodo in Russia, in 1943. A symbolic stone plate with the metal little cross emerging from the prison grille, and Eugeniusz Bodo's name spelled in Russian - has been laid on place of his supposed death in Kotlas.
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Polish Tango 1930: Zofia Terné - To pewno miłość (It Looks Like Love)
Zofia Terné z Orkiestrą - To pewno miłość [It Looks Like Love] Tango z rewii „Dookoła Bartel” teatru Qui pro Quo (muz. Krupiński – sł. Oldlen [Julian Tuwim]) Syrena-Electro 1930 (Polish)
NOTE: Zofia Terné (née Wiera Chajter) - popular Polish singer and cabaret performer. Born in 1909 to a family of Jewish merchant in the town of Równe (the Wolhynia region in prewar Poland, now part of Belarus) she completed the renowned Conservatory of Lwów, in class of piano and singing. She always dreamt of the operatic career, yet her minute posture made it difficult. In 1926, having met in Lwów the poet Marian Hemar - who was already a recognized author in Polish literary scene and wrote also for the Warsaw cabarets - she received from him beautiful, poetical lyrics of her first great hit: “Tyle jest miast…” (There are so many cities…). The song, based on Nacio Herb Brown’s English waltz “A Bunch of The Old Love Letters”, is a lyrical prayer to the beauty and charm of the city of Lwów. (In the Polish history, Lwów has been one of the major Polish cities, full of the most precious Polish historical heritage, which in spite of that, or perhaps because of, in 1945 in Yalta had been assigned by the Western Allies to the bunch of Stalin’s post war territorial trophies, and is now part of the Western Ukraine). The song “Tyle jest miast…” became ever since Zofia Terné’s signature hit and is still often sung and recorded by today’s performers, so in Poland as in Ukraine.
In 1927, Zofia Terné traveled to Warsaw, where she was immediately admitted to the crew of a prestigious literary and political cabaret Qui pro Quo, where she stayed until its disbandment in 1932. In September 1939, after having been arrested by the Germans and then released with order to travel to the Soviet occupational zone, she returned to her birthplace in Równe and was then arrested by the Soviets. Finally, in the Polish émigré army in the exile, which was organized in 1942 by Polish General Anders, Zofia Terné joined the army theatre, consisting of many Polish artists, who after invasion on Poland in 1939, escaped from Warsaw or were deported into the Soviet Union (Henryk Wars, Jerzy Petersburski, Albert Harris, Adam Aston, Eugeniusz Bodo – who was later murderd by the Soviets in the Gulag camp, in Kotlas, to name only a few). After the war, she decided to stay abroad and she continued successful performances for the Polish émigré circles in United Kingdom and throughout Western Europe, until her death in 1987 in London.
This nice lyrical tango was performed by Zofia Terné in theatre Qui pro Quo, in the political revue “Dookoła Bartel” staged in Warsaw in January 1930. The title of the show reflects the kind of a high refined humor, which was obligatory among Qui pro Quo authors. In Polish, there is an idiom “dookoła Wojtek” [= around Wojtek] meaning “stubbornly doing something round and round, but in vain” (Wojtek is a popular diminutive of Polish first name Wojciech). In that context, the revue’s title “Dookoła Bartel” becomes a derisive play of words commenting the prolonged political blind man’s buff in Poland, when Prime Minister Kazimierz Bartel, who between 1926-29 had been 4 times elected the leader of the government office, in Dec. 1929 was chosen again for the 5th time!
Theatre Qui pro Quo was active in Warsaw between 1924 – 1932 - was a hotbed for many significant artists in the history of Polish pop culture. The theatre’s writers (Julian Tuwim, Marian Hemar, Jerzy Jurandot, Konrad Tom) wrote texts of innumerable Polish hits, sketches or literary miniatures, many of which are still performed in Poland and are considered as the Polish little stage classics. During several years of its existence in the basement of the Luxenburg Gallery in Senatorska Street in Warsaw, the cream of Polish performers defiled trough its stage: Hanka Ordonówna, Eugeniusz Bodo, Mira Ziminska, Adolf Dymsza, Konrad Tom, Zula Pogorzelska, Chór Dana, or Lopek Krukowski. Director Jerzy Boczkowski was himself a composer and man of the high demands (several of his compositions are the evergreens in history of the Polish song), however the time of the Great Depression as well as rising demands of his artists (in sense of lavish lifestyles of many of the newborn stars) caused the increasing debt in theatre’s finances, until its collapse in 1932.
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Joseph Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian ethnicity. He ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and the nation's Premier from 1941 to 1953. Initially presiding over an oligarchic one-party system that governed by plurality, he became the de facto dictator of the Soviet Union by the 1930s. Ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin helped to formalise these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies became known as Stalinism.
Born to a poor family in Gori, Russian Empire (now Georgia), Stalin began his revolutionary career by joining the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party as a youth. He edited the party's newspaper, Pravda, and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings, and protection rackets. Repeatedly arrested, he underwent several internal exiles. After the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia during the 1917 October Revolution, Stalin joined the party's governing Politburo, where he was instrumental in overseeing the Soviet Union's establishment in 1922. As Lenin fell ill and then died in 1924, Stalin assumed leadership over the country. During Stalin's rule, Socialism in One Country became a central tenet of the party's dogma, and Lenin's New Economic Policy was replaced with a centralized command economy. Under the Five-Year Plan system, the country underwent collectivisation and rapid industrialization but experienced significant disruptions in food production that contributed to the famine of 1932–33. To eradicate those regarded as enemies of the working class, Stalin instituted the Great Purge, in which over a million were imprisoned and at least 700,000 executed between 1934 and 1939.
Stalin's government promoted Marxism–Leninism abroad through the Communist International and supported anti-fascist movements throughout Europe during the 1930s, particularly in the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, it signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, resulting in their joint invasion of Poland. Germany ended the pact by invading the Soviet Union in 1941. Despite initial setbacks, the Soviet Red Army repelled the German incursion and captured Berlin in 1945, ending World War II in Europe. The Soviets annexed the Baltic states and helped establish Soviet-aligned governments throughout Central and Eastern Europe, China and North Korea. The Soviet Union and the United States emerged from the war as the two world superpowers. Tensions arose between the Soviet-backed Eastern Bloc and U.S.-backed Western Bloc which became known as the Cold War. Stalin led his country through its post-war reconstruction, during which it developed a nuclear weapon in 1949. In these years, the country experienced another major famine and an anti-semitic campaign peaking in the Doctors' plot. Stalin died in 1953 and was eventually succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev, who denounced his predecessor and initiated a de-Stalinisation process throughout Soviet society.
Widely considered one of the 20th century's most significant figures, Stalin was the subject of a pervasive personality cult within the international Marxist–Leninist movement, for whom Stalin was a champion of socialism and the working class. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Stalin has retained popularity in Russia and Georgia as a victorious wartime leader who established the Soviet Union as a major world power. Conversely, his totalitarian government has been widely condemned for overseeing mass repressions, ethnic cleansing, hundreds of thousands of executions, and famines which caused the deaths of millions.
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