Organchik
About Organchik
During a horn practice in the palace, word arrives that Glupov's mayor, Ferdyshchenko, is dead, and the tsar has an organ set in the empty head of his loudest courtier, Perekhvat-Zalikhvatsky. It shouts that he will flog them and that he will ruin them, and it plays Slav'sya. In Glupov he burns the library, shells the village of Neelovka over an arrears of two rubles and some kopecks, and dances himself drunk at a victory show. A troika carries him through the decades into a modern city, where he dies. The organ falls out of his head and is kept in the Shchedrin Museum of Satire.
Cast & crew
More about Organchik
Nikolai Khodataev directed this two-part drawn satire in 1933, from a script he wrote with Aleksandr Gayamov on the Organchik chapter of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's The History of a Town, changing the order of events and the ending.
Themes
Look
N. Yemanov is the credited cameraman. The picture is drawn in black and white, with the hard contrast of a woodcut.
Music
Grigory Lobachyov wrote the score. Between two shouted threats, the organ in the mayor's head plays Slav'sya.
Notes
- The drawings are by G. Echeistov, a pupil of Vladimir Favorsky, and by the animator D. Cherkes. Ink work is made to look like wood engraving.
- The film's mayor uses the name Perekhvat-Zalikhvatsky for the organ-headed governor who, in the book, is Brudasty.
- Animators credited on the production include Echeistov, Khodataev, and Cherkes.
Scenes
- Books run out of the library while Perekhvat-Zalikhvatsky burns the building.
- He shells Neelovka for two rubles and some kopecks.
- Drunk, he is put in a droshky, and the troika carries him into a modern city.
- The organ drops from his head and is left in the Shchedrin Museum of Satire.
Influenced by
- The History of a Town, by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1933. Органчик.webm)
