#vladimir vysotsky

[kobzars]

On a cold December evening, being far from home, in the hotel "Ukraine" in Kyiv, Vladimir Vysotsky experienced a sudden attack of love longing and sent a telegram to his beloved Marina Vladi

#Vladimir Vysotsky #Marina Vladi #telegram #kobzarart #antique

[vicsy]

we live in deathly emptiness, try push against it — and pus will gush, and we muffle fear with a piercing howl —  those at the front and in the back, as one. and obligatory sacrifices, our fathers hailed time and again, have sealed the fate of our generation —  rid us of mind and memory and eyes.

— Vladimir Vysotsky

circa 1980

translation by me

#this seems very fitting with everything going on with the world #my very fave short poem he wrote before his untimely death #Vladimir Vysotsky #poetry #vicsy writes #more like vicsy vaguelly translates lmao #just so everything i do is in one tag #i had to adapt some part but i do hope it makes sense

[mockva]

1977. "Executioner"

#1977 #Vladimir Vysotsky #soviet union

[oneinathousand]

Every once in a while the subject of digital necromancy and bad biopics will pop up and create a lot of discussion, and when it happens, a lot of the same subjects will be brought up repeatedly. However, there's one movie I came upon several months ago that combines "bringing dead actors back to life" and the disrespectful biopic in a completely unhinged way that I've never seen done elsewhere, but I never hear anybody on English-speaking parts of the internet bring it up because it's virtually unknown outside of Russian-speaking areas. Let me introduce you to a little movie called Vysotsky: Thank You for Being Alive.

First, some context on who the subject of this biopic is: Vladimir Vysotsky was a Russian singer/songwriter/poet/actor who was incredibly popular among much of the Soviet Union; you could consider him the Russian equivalent to John Lennon or Edith Piaf, all being artists, who - because they died relatively young - were elevated after their deaths to becoming cultural icons of almost mythical status.

So, in 2011, this movie was released, based on a screenplay and partially produced by Vysotsky's son, Nikita Vysotsky, and it tells a story about Vysotsky having a near-death experience while on tour in Uzbekistan in 1979 as KGB agents are spying on him. The producers apparently wanted viewers to see the "real" Vladimir Vysotsky, and to do that, they took a very... unique approach to his portrayal in the movie.

They had the actor who played Vysotsky go through six hours of makeup every day, then used CG on top of that (to what extent, I don't know, maybe it was just a general digital airbrushing, though I also heard some shots might have his face be entirely CG, but I can't confirm since there's not a lot of info about this movie in English), and then had Nikita Vysotsky dub the voice.

So far, not so unusual, other than the filmmakers being incredibly obsessive about making the actor look exactly like Vysotsky because they didn't think audiences would accept anything else.

Here's the batshit part: They didn't credit the actor, Sergey Bezrukov, upon release. They kept his involvement a secret. Instead, they credited Vladimir Vysotsky as playing himself.

It wasn't until the next year when Sergey Bezrukov admitted to playing Vysotsky, and apparently for a 2013 TV version they finally credited him. Also, this review from before the confession indicates that many people managed to figure out it was him all along. Still, that just goes to show that keeping it a secret was a pointless endeavor.

Maybe this movie is actually really good and tells this episode of Vysotsky's life in a factual, even-handed way, but I wouldn't be able to tell you since, again, not a lot of super-detailed info on Vysotsky in English that's easy to find. What I CAN say is that regardless of its quality, all those efforts pretty much go down the drain by the producers deciding not to credit the actual actor for a time. Pretending Vysotsky played himself feels like putting words in his mouth postmortem, it would be kinda like if I made a biopic about somebody and then at the end of the movie I put up a disclaimer being like "We held an Ouija board session and communicated with our subject's ghost who TOTALLY gave us the stamp of approval."

I haven't seen the whole film but from what I have seen, the use of all that makeup, CG, and dubbing plants the performance pretty firmly in the uncanny valley, and if I were a Russian who had grown up listening to Vysotsky's music and watching his acting roles, then saw this movie in a theater or on TV, I'd be creeped out and insulted at the notion that this is as good as the real deal.

The effect looks fine in some angles and lighting conditions, but otherwise it's generally weird-looking. The face is overly smooth, Bezrukov clearly couldn't emote much underneath all that makeup, and the dubbed voice doesn't always match the facial expressions, or lack thereof. It doesn't help that this movie is REALLY brightly lit and saturated as if it was shot by a 2000's video game developer who just figured out how to do bloom effects, so there's really not much the film could do to obscure the face. The creepiness is something you have to see in motion to feel, just posting pictures wouldn't get across what I mean, so if you do want to see it, the movie has been uploaded here.

#vladimir vysotsky #Влади́мир Высо́цкий #biopic #i wouldn't have found out about this movie or vysotsky in general if it weren't for Treasure Island 1988 #cause I watched the meeting place cannot be changed based on commenter's recommendations

[trelldraws]

Being on something of Vladimir Vysotsky translation kick I have translated «Москва – Одесса» / “Moscow to Odessa” (Spotify, Youtube) into English and made it singable! Lyrics below the cut:

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Again I fly from Moscow to Odessa! My plane is stuck again on the concrete And here comes our stewardess, god bless her, blue-clad contessa Reliable as the whole civilian fleet.

In Murmansk the clouds are thinning out And Ashgabat waits in the open air Open are Kyiv, and Kharkov, Chisinau And Lvov is too—but I don’t need to go there!

They tell me, “There’s not a chance today Don’t count upon the heavens to be nice!” And sure enough, they’re saying no express flights to Odessa The runway’s covered hopelessly in ice!

In Leningrad the snow is melting fast But why should I for Leningrad declare? In Tbilisi as always it is warm— They grow tea there, but I don’t need to go there!

I hear: last flight to Rostov is departing! But it’s Odessa that’s where I need to be! But where I need to go—landing lights aren’t restarting And so the flight is once again delayed!

Where I go, the streets are clad in white And tomorrow there will be heavy snow And somewhere else it is all clear and bright I’m sure that’s nice—but I don’t need to go there!

Here you can’t fly out—and there you can’t fly in It’s so unfair, I know only defeat But the stewardess, she dully invites us to board Reliable as the whole civilian fleet.

You can go to anywhere on the map To a place that no reward could get me to bear The port of Vladivostok has been breached Paris has too—but I don’t need to go there!

Lift off, the sky is clearing, our destination nearing The liner’s engine working hard and shrill I’m just on pins and needles, they’ll reroute any minute Of all their reasons I have had my fill!

Where I go, it’s impenetrable fog And tomorrow is still more heavy snowfall! They’ve opened London, Delhi, even Prague It’s all good now—but I don’t need to go there!

Do I laugh or cry now, delayed again and how now, And very soon we will our past selves meet Led swiftly in reverse by the stewardess, our miss Odessa Who looks just like the whole civilian fleet.

Departures delayed till eight again! And the weary masses can only accept it! I’m sick to death of waiting, damn it all! And I’m flying to wherever they will have me!

I’m sick to death of waiting, damn it all! I am flying to wherever they will have me.

#vladimir vysotsky #music #translation #cover song

[imtelech]

#vladimir vysotsky

[bakubaby3]

Чуть помедленнее кони, чуть помедленнее Вы тугую не слушайте плеть Но что-то кони мне попались привередливые И дожить не успел мне допеть не успеть Я коней напою, я куплет допою Хоть немного еще постою на краю

«Кони привередливые» Владимир Высоцкий 

#vladimir vysotsky #fastidious horses #Кони привередливые #Владимир Высоцкий #soviet #советский

[dukhoiada]

Vladimir Vysotsky in Ossetia, 1978

#vladimir vysotsky #ossetia

[brushandcollors]

(Ru)

"У вина достоинства, Говорят целебные, Я решил попробовать, Бутылку взял-открыл, Вдруг от туда вылезло, Что-то не потребное, Может быть зеленый змей, А может крокодил... "Владимир Высоцкий. Песня про Джина."

Вот. Наконец то закончил раскрашивать набросок к строчкам песни "про Джина" Высоцкого. Сначала хотел нарисовать натюрморт (стол с разными вкусностями и все это в декорациях кухни (о том, что дело происходит на кухне говорит холодильник, который я срисовывал с яндекс картинок). Потом решил картинку расширить, добавив к очерченной стене некоторые детали интерьера и вспомнив текст песни, добавил джина, что появляется из бутылки с вином, которую своим хвостом охомутал зеленый змий.

(EN) "Wine has virtues,

They say they are healing,

I decided to give it a try,

I took the bottle and opened it,

Suddenly it got out of there,

Something unnecessary,

Maybe a green snake,

Or maybe a crocodile... "Vladimir Vysotsky.

The song is about Jin."

Here. I finally finished coloring the sketch for the lines of the song "about Gin" by Vysotsky. At first I wanted to draw a still life (a table with various goodies and all this in the kitchen decorations (the fact that it happens in the kitchen says the refrigerator, which I copied from Yandex pictures). Then I decided to expand the picture by adding some interior details to the outlined wall and remembering the lyrics of the song, I added a gin that appears from a bottle of wine, which was wrapped by a green snake with its tail.

#drawing #digital drawing #digital painting #digital art #digital illustration #Высоцкий #Vladimir Vysotsky #Владимир Высоцкий

[sindirimba]

#Городской романс #vladimir vysotsky #music

[soulsanitarium]

France 🇫🇷 La Sorcière - The Blonde Witch 1956

dir. Michel was Adapted from the 🇷🇺 Aleksandr Kuprin novel Olesya. Russian version of it was filmed in 1971.

🎭The Blonde Witch is played by Marina Vlady, actress, singer, activist, writer…Vlady was married to Soviet poet/songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky and she has wrote a book about their relationship.

The movie has a beautiful soundtrack (theme tune for my podcast) and it was composed by French Norbert Glanzberg. He was also notable for some famous songs of Édith Piaf.🎼

🌲The writer Kuprin wrote this book when fell in love of the nature and woods in a hunting trip.

📽️ Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in Sweden for a lumber company meets Ina, a local nature-girl type, falls in love, has an affair, tries to convert her to “civilization”, but ends up…no spoilers here.

🔥Movie was filmed in the locations (Dalarna, Mora) where Swedish witch trials were furious in the 17th century. The witch trial in Mora and Älvdalen 1668-1669 is the most famous Swedish witch trial because a famous illustration was made of it in Germany. This kind of prints had huge influence in the Europe and this particular one was even known in Massachusetts Salem at the time.

There were only few cases in 🇸🇪 when the “witch “ was burned alive so this drawing is incorrect. The convicted were beheaded in Sweden like in the Finland trials.

🐴“Funny” detail: Even the famous decoration, Mora’s wooden horse (Dalahästen) was banned, because witches were believed to be using them for the flight to the Satan’s orgies.

👨‍⚖️🇫🇮The witch “hunter” in Mora was Finnish Lorentz Creutz. As chairman of the Witchcraft Commission, Creutz took it upon himself to save Sweden from the devil’s grip. As head of the Witchcraft Commission, Creutz was ruthless because he was convinced of the correctness of his own actions. He was a man who never doubted.In two weeks the commission heard a total of two hundred defendants and witnesses. It sentenced to death the 16 inhabitants of Mora and the six inhabitants of Älvdalen. In addition, dozens of people were sentenced to various flogging and church punishments. The youngest 22 children had to stand in the church with a whip in their hand for three Sundays in a row and sit in a separate room during the year's services.(Lappalainen 2018)⛪️

Listen more from my podcast 🎧

#olesya #alexandr kuprin #kuprin #blonde witch #marina vlady #Vladimir Vysotski #france #french #sweden #dahlarna #dala horse #dalahäst #mora #finland #Andre Michel #witch #witchcraft #movies #witches #cinema #history #folklore #film #folk horror #psychology #horror #demonology #witch trials #podcast #1950s movies

[deovious]

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#probably deleting this in the morning but i’m eepy rn and thinking about the song i’m listening o #vladimir vysotsky is so beloved to me #gahh i love him #i’m listening to если я заболею rn #you’re so right king #если я заболею к врачам обращаться не стану. обращусь я к друзьям #you bet your ass i will #the partner song to this for me btw is ты у меня одна #they’re not at all connected to each other but to me personally #they are connected ♥️ #needed to get some of my brainrot out #all my friends are asleep rn :(

[mockva]

Vladimir Vysotsky, Marina Vladi and Ivan Bortnik in Paris, 1977

#ussr #1977 #Vladimir Vysotsky #Marina Vladi #Ivan Bortnik

[lina-vas-dom]

Мне каждый вечер зажигает свечи, И образ твой окуривает дым, И не хочу я знать, что время лечит, Что все проходит вместе с ним…. /Владимир Высоцкий

I light my candles every night, And your image is in the smoke I don't want to know that time heals That everything passes with it…. /Vladimir Vysotsky

#стихи Владимир Высоцкий

[sovietpostcards]

“The Crystal Glass House” by Vladimir Vysotsky (1974)

#i wonder how it sounds when you don't understand the lyrics #and you weren't brought up on vysotsky records #soviet music #1970s

[lualuadraw]

wolf hunting by vladimir vysotsky plays in the distance

#transformers #starscream #starscream armada #transformers armada