Film dubbng, USSR, 1960s-

[Slivkin, Yevgeniy A.]

Dear Anastasiia,

In addition to the information provided by Professor Hill I can give you some inside information.
In the early 1980's for several months I worked as a contractor at Lenfilm Studio in the so-called "dubbing workshop" (tsekh dubliazha). If I am not mistaken, in the 1970’s and 1980’s dubbing workshops existed at two movie studios: Mosfilm ( I am not sure, may be it was Studiia imeni Gor'kogo) and Lenfilm, both workshops had recognized masters of this craft, but Lenfilm was considered (at least by those who worked at Lenfilm) superior. Dubbing usually was done by two persons, one was called "ukladchik" (usually a professional actor who often participated in dubbing, lending his or her voice to the foreign move actors) another "literaturnyi obrabotchik" (often a professional writer). The trick was to convert the roughly translated texts of the movie dialogue into acceptable literary texts and appropriately fit this text into the moving lips of the actors on the screen (that is why, by the way, in American and British films dubbed into Russian the characters often say “blagoda!
 riu” and not “spasibo”, the former word just fit more precisely in the lips of the actor on the screen when he or she says “thank you”). It was rather meticulous, painstaking work with every word, probably that is why Lenfilm's dubbing workshop often employed poets, including Vladimir Ufliand (who taught me the skills of "ukladka") and Elena Shvarts. The absolute star of dubbing at Lenfilm was justly considered Dmitrii Bruskin, translator of Polish literature and polyglot. Masters of dubbing worked on the film alone without “ukladchik”. 


 YevgenySlivkin, Ph.D.
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
University of Oklahoma
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780 Van Vleet Oval
Norman, Oklahoma 73019-2032
Office: (405) 325-1546
Fax: (405) 325-0103
slivkin at ou.edu     
 


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Subject: [SEELANGS] Film dubbng, USSR, 1960s-

Dear colleagues, Kayiatos, Robin, etc.

Starting about 1931, the USSR's "international studio," Mezhrabpom-Film,
was assigned to do all dubbing of non-Russian films into Russian.
Even after 1936 (appx'y), when Mezhrabpom was re-designated as the
"Gor'kii Children's Studio" ("Detfil'm"), the dubbing specialty continued
at Detfil'm.  And continued at least through the 1960s, if not later.

If a book has ever been published about the Gor'kii-Detfil'm Studio
(I'm not aware of such, but it might exist), I'll wager it would contain
a chapter about dubbing soundtracks at Detfil'm...

Best wishes to all,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.
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# Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:33:56 -0500
# From: Anastasia Kayiatos <akayiatos at BERKELEY.EDU>
# Subject: Film-Dubbing in the Soviet Union

Can anyone recommend sources on the politics and practices of dubbing film in
the Soviet Union, especially during the post-Stalin period?
Please send responses off list to akayiatos at gmail.com .

Thank you.
Anastasia Kayiatos
Doctoral Candidate, Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of California, Berkeley
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# Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:02:54 -0400
# From: Richard Robin <rrobin at GWU.EDU>
# Subject: Re: Film-Dubbing in the Soviet Union

Please reply ON LIST. I too am quite interested in this topic.

Richard M. Robin, Ph.D.
Director Russian Language Program
The George Washington University
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