Directed by Vladimir Shneiderov
Gorky liked the Golden Lake very much. He watched this movie twice with Romain Rolland. "Golden Lake" combines Schneiderov's adventure films with his travel paintings, and there were many created by the indefatigable director. He visited Arabia and Japan, Mongolia and China, the Pamirs and Tien Shan, the Kara Kums and the Arctic, Western Europe and North America, and everywhere Schneiderov tried to capture all the most interesting, significant, and still unexplored.
We created a film atlas in the Soviet Union, and Schneiderov did a lot for this, His geographical paintings are very diverse.
I want to give a sketch of a traveler's portrait of a special kind: to reveal the drama of a film journey, to show how it becomes effective from a specific one.
No one interfered with the young Robinson Crusoe's life in his quiet city of Iorca. But Robinson fell in love with the sea and travel; he suffered shipwrecks, was captured by the Moors, cultivated plantations in Brazil, lived on a desert island for twenty-seven years and traveled again. Why does humanity love Robinson Crusoe so much?
Robinson Crusoe is a worker, he intervenes in life, he is not a passive person. He is a hero of the first centuries of capitalism.
He either goes to see something new, or creates something new with his own hands on a desert island.
The traveler is the brother of the worker, the brother of the inventor.
Robinson Crusoe's desert island was full of novelties; human labor was constantly creating things that had never been seen before.
Traveling is good when it involves overcoming difficulties, when the world is being created in front of us.
The "Journey around the World in 80 days" fascinated both children and adults because it was full of obstacles.
Unfinished roads broke off in front of the traveler, bridges fell under steam locomotives, ships refused to take the traveler on board, but he drove on and on, using everything, and as a result, he won the bet due to the fact that with hard work he surpassed the sun by 80 days a day.
The current journeys of the Soviet people are journeys in a transformed world.
The world is given to us not for inspection, but for remaking.
Rails are laid across the desert, camels are incredulously sniffing the rails, steamships are breaking through the ice, cars are passing through deserts, following the great, abandoned Silk Road.
This path has long been covered with dunes, blocked by fear. And now it's been laid again.
Schneiderov is one of the Robinsons of a newly inhabited world, and this is the power of his tapes. Thanks to this, they remain in the viewer's memory.
From the long-forgotten Proletkino organization, in which Schneiderov worked as an editing director, he volunteered in 1925 to shoot the film The Great Flight. There were planes flying, for which this path was difficult. Among the machines are four Soviet ones, pioneers of our aircraft industry. The reader followed the flight in the newspapers like a fan. He was rooting for our glory, for our luck, he flew with his heart along with the pilots.
In the film, he saw China at that time and its working people, saw Shanghai policemen and gendarmes. The film was dramatic. He consolidated the picture of China's life at a very difficult and difficult moment, and consolidated the new ties between the Country of the Soviets and its Chinese neighbor.
Schneiderov's second success was a painting about an expedition to the Pamirs in 1928.
The following year, Schneiderov filmed a trip to the South Arabian state of El Iemen.
The participation of the icebreaker Sibiryakov in the campaign in 1932 made the traveler famous.
In one navigation, the icebreaker traveled the Northern Sea Route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. THCA flower