Reception of A. Eniki’s prose in Tatar cinema (based on the TV movie “Full of Danger and Memory”)

Abstract

The article examines the features characterizing the screen versions of the works by Amirkhan Eniki (1909–2000), the national writer of Tatarstan and winner of the G. Tukay State Prize. The writer's prose has been presented twice to film connoisseurs. The director Akhtyam Zaripov was the first person who turned to the prose of A. Eniki. In the period of 2000–2001, “Ilhamiyat” Film Studio produced the television film “Full of Danger and Memory” (“Khətər həm khəter”), directed and staged by A. Zaripov who translated the writer's short stories “Only for One Hour” (“Ber genə səgat'kə”) (1944), “The Hospitable Enemy” (“Kunakchyl doshman”) (1945), “Looking into the Mountains” (“Taularga karap”) (1948) into the language of cinema. In 2014, based on the A. Eniki's stories “Beauty” (“Maturlyk”), “Only for One Hour” (“Ber gene segat'ke”), and “Who sang?” (“Kem dzhyrlady?”), the movie “The 823^rd Kilometre” was shot (written by Valeria Baykeeva, directed by Irek Khafizov and Amir Galiaskarov).

In this scientific article, the object of evaluation is Akhtyam Zaripov's television film “Full of Danger and Memory”, based on the stories “Beauty”, “Only for One Hour”, “The Hospitable Enemy”, “Looking at the Mountains” and the screenplay by A. Eniki “Only for One Hour”. The subject of our research is the ideological and aesthetic qualities of the texts by the writer and the director, the features of this production, the ways used to convey to the viewer deep philosophical and moral ideas found in the works.