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'Wolf Messing: Who Saw Through Time' Russian TV series about fate of Wolf Messing, based on the novel of the same name by the screenwriter Eduard Volodarsky.'E. Volodarsky' Wolf Messing: Who Saw Through Time. oscow: Amphora, 2009. 560 p. ISBN 978-5-367-00489-2 by the Russia-1 TV channel. The series premiered on the Russia-1 on November 15, 2009.

Plot



Messing was born in the last year of the nineteenth century and became one of the most mysterious and fateful personalities of the twentieth century. A boy from a poor Jewish family, he was forced to start an independent life early. After leaving for Germany, he took on the most menial work. His supernatural telepathic abilities were discovered quite accidentally, by two Jews, under almost mystical circumstances (one of them, the doctor, discovered that the "dead" boy was not dead). They also begin to promote him as an artist, and Messing spends his first public performances in the Berlin Panopticon. The audience remains in awe. Weimar Germany, scarred by the consequences of the First World War, was a place that attracted charlatans and mystics, great scientists and maniacs.

Soon the chaos of the Weimar Republic is replaced by the iron system of Nazi Germany. And here Messing is in demand as never before. In 1937, when the Third Reich is at the height of its glory, Messing predicts a swift and inglorious end to the "millennial Reich" in the event of an attack on the East. Believing in their own prediction, with Hitler's capture of Poland Messing crosses the border The Soviet Union. So life for him was divided into two equal halves.

In the Soviet Union, Wolf Messing is listed as a hypnotist and magician, being both an experimenter and a test subject, and unofficially becomes an astrologer of Stalin. He holds secrets that no one can share, secrets that will die with him.

Actors and roles



* Evgeny Knyazev Wolf G. Messing

* Alexander Khinkis Wolf Messing as a child

* Roman Grechishkin Wolf Messing in his youth

* Alexander Klyukvin Ilya Petrovich

* Tara Amirkhanova Aida Mikhailovna Messing-Rappaport, Messing's wife

* Veronika Itskovich Sarah, Messing's mother

* Vasily Savinov Gregory, Messing's father

* Mikhail Gorevoy Eric Hanussen

* Vladimir Dolinsky Peter Zellmeister, Messing's impresario

* Andrey Ilyin Albert Einstein

* Boris Plotnikov Sigmund Freud

* Vitaly Kudryavtsev Konstantin Kovalev, pilot

* Yuri Nifontov Dr. Karl Abel

* Ivan Agapov Dr. Lev Kobak

* Roman Pechersky Paul Vogt

* Viktor Rakov Wilhelm Canaris

* Mark Rudinstein Osip Yefremovich

* Alexey Petrenko Joseph Stalin

* Georgy Teslya-Gerasimov Vasily Stalin

* Vladimir Shcherbakov Lavrentiy Beria

* Vladimir Chuprikov Nikita Khrushchev

* Oleg Chernihiv Leonid Brezhnev

* Sarkis Amirzyan Anastas Mikoyan

* Sergey Klanovsky Mikhail Suslov

* Dmitry Yachevsky Adolf Hitler

* Vasily Belokopytov NKVD agent

* Yuri Shlykov Viktor Abakumov

* Lyubov Rumyantseva Raisa Andreyevna

* Pyotr Yurchenkov Jr. cadet of the intelligence school

* Alexander Luchinin Military

* Edita Herbus Anna Vogt

* Andrey Podubinsky episode

Film crew



* The author of the script: Eduard Volodarsky

* Directors: Vladimir Krasnopolsky, Valery Uskov

* Director of Photography: Timur Zelma

* Composer: Evgeny Shiryaev

* Artists:

** Ivan Rogoten

** Vladislav Travinsky

* Producers:

** Anatoly Chizhikov

** Sergey Danielyan

** Aram Movsesian

**Ruben Dishdishyan

Criticism



In general, the plot of the film is completely based on the legendary and not reliably confirmed biography of Messing. Shows meetings (which most likely didn't happen in reality) with Einstein, Freud, Hanussen, By Hitler and Stalin, shows Messing's alleged escape from a German prison by hypnotizing the guards, etc., which was noted by many critics of the film.[http://www.kp.ru/daily/24397.3/573634/ Nikolay Kitaev: "Messing's real biography is still classified in the FSB archives"][http://v-mishakov.ru/messing2.html The Truth about Velvel Messing][http://eot.su/smi/art-kritika/retsenziya-na-televizionnye-serialy-volf-messing-videvshii-skvoz-vremya-i-ya-volf-me Review of the television series "Wolf Messing: Who Saw through Time" and "I am Wolf Messing"][http://www.agatov.com/content/view/2074/63/ The film "Wolf Messing: Who saw through time" through the eyes of a hypnotist] In addition, there are many historical and visual inaccuracies in the film, including Messing's date of birth itself.

"In 2009, unexpectedly good ratings were given to the artistically insignificant series Wolf Messing: Who Saw Through Time. Venerable screenwriter Eduard Volodarsky collected all the legends and myths about the Honored Artist of the RSFSR Wolf Grigoryevich Messing-a mentalist who performed in the USSR with psychological experiments "on reading the thoughts" of the audience. Directors Uskov and Krasnopolsky put all the crazy stories up to Messing's acquaintance with Freud, Einstein, Hitler and Stalin on the screen. They swindled the "mentalist" almost to the scale of a biblical prophet..." (Alexander Kondrashov, Leningrad State University, 2013)[https://lgz.ru/article/-39-6432-02-10-2013/vanga-doch-messinga/ Vanga daughter of Messing Articles Literary Newspaper]

Plagiarism



In the series, music from the soundtracks to other films was used (not specified in the credits).

* The theme of the title credits of the third season of the TV series "Babylon 5" (by composer Christopher Franke) accompanied by the closing credits of each episode;

* Theme from the kiss scene of Zhou Chang and Harry Potter from the movie "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (by composer Nicholas Hooper) in scenes where Messing shows his abilities.

References



Category:Russia-1 original programming

Category:2007 television films

Category:2007 films

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