Marketplace
About Marketplace
This is the bazaar scene, about two and a half minutes, from Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Vera Tsekhanovskaya's cartoon of Alexander Pushkin's Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda. Dmitri Shostakovich wrote the score. The other reels were lost when Lenfilm was bombed in the Siege of Leningrad in 1941.
Cast & crew
More about Marketplace
The feature was a cartoon opera on Pushkin's verse tale. The husband-and-wife team Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Vera Tsekhanovskaya directed it at Lenfilm. Shostakovich composed. No release year is fixed on the film's record. The Commons file is labeled as a 1933 episode. What remains is the scene called Bazaar, or Marketplace.
Themes
Background
The reels that are gone were in the Lenfilm studio when Leningrad was besieged and the studio was bombed in 1941.
Making
The Tsekhanovskys built the film as an animated opera. The siege left the bazaar scene and took the rest.
Music
Dmitri Shostakovich wrote the score for the feature. The bazaar fragment is what can still be heard of it.
Preservation
About two and a half minutes, the bazaar, survive. The rest of the reels were lost in the 1941 bombing of Lenfilm. The fragment is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The surviving piece is the only known picture from the feature.
- The loss is dated to the 1941 bombing of the Lenfilm studio, not to a later junking.
Scenes
- The fragment is the market, and it stops there.
Influenced by
- The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Сказка о попе и его работнике Балде (1933) эпизод Базар.webm)
