A LOOK FROM DIFFERENT EPOCHS: ON TWO SCREEN VERSIONS OF ONE SHORT STORY BY LEONID ANDREEV
Two films based on L. Andreev’s famous short story “Gubernator” are analyzed as an interesting fact of the evolution of Russian culture. They appeared in 1920-th and 90-th and reflected the ideology, style and spirit of their times. In the early screen version the meaning changes because of director’s political agitation but despite that the artistic inventions of modernist’s prose are presented (the leitmotif structure, the montage composition, the intertext). In another film we can observe the director’s intention of returning to literary origin, expressing the nostalgic feelings for the past and finding some likeness between it and a beginning of a new epoch. But still he shows and interpretate just the social-psychological layer of L. Andreev’s story.