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Kalmyk Shrines: Part 4 of the Documentary Film “Secrets of the Kalmyk Steppe: From the Life of the Kalmyks and Tatars”

«Калмыцкие святыни» - часть 4 документального фильма «Тайны калмыцкой степи. Из жизни калмыков и татар»

Kalmyk Shrines: Part 4 of the Documentary Film “Secrets of the Kalmyk Steppe: From the Life of the Kalmyks and Tatars”

Abstract

В статье рассматривается часть документального фильма, снятого в начале 1920-х гг. швейцарской экспедицией. Благодаря фильму Августа Керна сохранились визуальные материалы о культуре и быте калмыков в эпоху перехода от кочевой жизни к оседлой. Исследование показало, что создание фильма “Die Geheimnisse der Kalmückensteppe. Aus dem Leben der Tataren und Kalmücken” (Тайны калмыцкой степи. Из жизни калмыков и татар) было связано с актуальным направлением гуманитарного кино начала 1920-х гг., создававшегося при поддержке организаций Международного комитета Красного Креста. А. Керн снимал фильм, являясь представителем Швейцарского общества Красного Креста на юге России, но сохранившиеся части фильма являются кинохроникой этнографического типа, в которой отражена буддийская культура калмыков, несомненно представлявшая особый интерес для европейского зрителя. Сохранились две из четырех частей фильма, имеются два их варианта: с титрами на чешском языке и с немецкими и французскими титрами. Калмыцкая часть фильма была снята в поселениях Зёты и Ханата. Спустя сто лет «Тайны калмыцкой степи…» представляет важный визуальный документ как для ученых, так и для широкой аудитории, и его исследование только начинается. This article discusses part of a documentary film shot in the early 1920s by a Swiss expedition. Thanks to the director, August Kern, visual material has been preserved about the life and culture of the Kalmyks in the era of their transition from nomadic to sedentary life. The article shows how the film “Die Geheimnisse der Kalmückensteppe. Aus dem Leben der Tataren und Kalmücken” (“Secrets of the Kalmyk Steppe. From the Life of the Kalmyks and Tatars”) reflects the humanitarian tendency in cinema of the early 1920s, created with the support of organizations like the International Committee of the Red Cross. Kern shot the film as a representative of the Swiss Red Cross in southern Russia. The surviving parts of the film are newsreels of an ethnographic type and examine the Kalmyks’ Buddhist culture, undoubtedly of particular interest to the European viewer. Two of the four parts of the film have been preserved; there are two versions of them, with titles in Czech and with German and French titles. The Kalmyk part of the film was shot in the settlements of Zeta and Khanate. A hundred years after it was made, the “Secrets of the Kalmyk Steppe” is an important visual document for both scholars and the general public.

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