Wolf Messing: Who Saw through Time
Genre
Created byEduard Volodarsky
Directed byVladimir Krasnopolsky, Valery Uskov
Starring
ComposerYevgeny Shiryaev
Country of originRussian Federation
Original languageRussian
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes16
Production
Producers
  • Anatoly Chizhikov
  • Sergey Danielyan
  • Aram Movsesyan
  • Ruben Dishdishyan
CinematographyTimur Zelma
Running time45 minutes
Production companyCentral Partnership
Original release
NetworkRussia 1
ReleaseNovember 15, 2009 (2009-11-15)

Wolf Messing: Who Saw Through Time (Russian: Вольф Мессинг: видевший сквозь время, romanized: Wolf Messing: Videvshiy skvoz' vremya) is a Russian TV series about fate of Wolf Messing, based on the novel of the same name by the screenwriter Eduard Volodarsky.[1] 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.[2] 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.

Cast

Film crew

  • The author of the script: Eduard Volodarsky
  • Directors: Vladimir Krasnopolsky, Valery Uskov
  • Director of Photography: Timur Zelma
  • Composer: Yevgeny 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.[3][4][5][6] 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)[7]

Plagiarism

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

References

  1. ↑ Ed. Volodarsky Wolf Messing: Who Saw Through Time. — Moscow: Amphora, 2009. — 560 p. — ISBN 978-5-367-00489-2
  2. ↑ "Wolf Messing: Who Saw through Time / Russia 1 TV Channel" (in Russian). russia.tv. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  3. ↑ Nikolay Kitaev: "Messing's real biography is still classified in the FSB archives"
  4. ↑ The Truth about Velvel Messing
  5. ↑ Review of the television series "Wolf Messing: Who Saw through Time" and "I am Wolf Messing"
  6. ↑ The film "Wolf Messing: Who saw through time" through the eyes of a hypnotist
  7. ↑ Vanga — daughter of Messing — Articles — Literary Newspaper
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