Film transcripts?

[Alina Israeli]

>SEELANGS friends,
>Some of you may remember the screen play (University of Washington,
>1965) of "Ballad of a Soldier" which was published in paperback form.
>Quite a work!  Has anyone produced anything similar for another Russian
>film?  Or perhaps there exist simple dialog transcriptions in printed
>form or on the Web?

Some films were based on plays, "Osennij marafon" is one such example. It's
a play by A. Volodin which was published in "P'esy leningradskix
dramaturgov" Lenizdat 1985. Then there was "Dorogaja Elena Sergeevna" by
Razumovskaja, and a very Soviet film base on Gel'man's play "Obratnaja
svjaz'", also "P'esy leningradskix dramaturgov", Lenizdat 1979. Then of
course there are the plays by Shvarts, "Ten'" for example, and "Snezhnaja
koroleva".

BTW, the text of the Ballad of a Soldier published in 1965 is very
different from the film dialog, lots of scenes are missing. So they simply
reprinted the original screanplay (which must have been published in the
Soviet Union in some periodical), which was subsequently modified during
the filming.

__________________________
 Alina Israeli
 LFS, American University
 4400 Mass. Ave., NW
 Washington, DC 20016

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 fax:      (202) 885-1076

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