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Oleg Yankovsky as Raevski

'Open book' [orig.: 'Открытая книга'] (1977-1979), Episode 2, dir. Viktor Titov

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#128

[k-tarkovsky]

Tarkovsky and I had many plans. He wanted to make Hamlet into a movie with me. One day he came running excitedly: “Oleg, let’s teach Hamlet in English - we have money.” - “I’m crazy, how can you learn Hamlet in English?” In “Nostalgia” I played in Italian, but “Hamlet”... He said: “No, just learn the monologue “To be or not to be?” I can only guess how he wanted to film...

I had to play for him in “Sacrifice”. But he was already a defector, and I was not allowed to film.

Work and meetings with Andrey seemed to me like a random gift of fate; they were accompanied by fear, lack of faith in one’s own strength, and were insane happiness. I never tried to understand these mixed feelings, much less understand them. I just absorbed, like a sponge, everything that came from Andrei, from his environment, from his father. It was a short - huge - life with its own color, light, smell, poetry and look...

We weren't close friends. Andrey always remained a mysterious, not completely understandable person for me. A strange, unexpected director. Our relationship was not easy to build... Like Vysotsky, he was one of the leaders of our generation. The only director to whom I, as an actor, wanted to entrust myself completely, without thinking, without any doubts.

He could only work with those with whom he had a natural, some kind of biological connection.

Tarkovsky was a truly Russian artist, the embodiment of conscientiousness, maximalism, inner freedom, and spiritual strength.

Andrei was, perhaps, the only director I knew of whom it was absolutely pointless to ask anything, to demand specific instructions. Contact happened only when I “dragged my soul,” straining not only acting, but also human efforts... It was impossible to lie to Andrey, because in such people the conscience of a generation is embodied.

This closed, tough man could be funny, and touching, and tender, and dead tired.

From the memoirs of Oleg Yankovsky

[honeygleam]

az én xx. századom (1989) dir. ildikó enyedi

[cinematicjourney]

Nostalgia (1983) | dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

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Domiziana Giordano and Oleg Yankovsky on the set of "Nostalghia", 1983

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"Зеркало" (1975) - Андрей Тарковский

("Zerkalo"/"Mirror" (1975) - Andrei Tarkovsky)

"February Film Favourites" Day 26/28

Full film on Archive.org. (Though sadly without subtitles.)

[slashfuhrer]

Can't believe I haven't reblogged this gay ass legend of a scene in the recent past, honestly they should be plastered over my whole blog, Heinrich und Johann my loves my passions my beacons of light

They just don't make 'em like that anymore

The Shield and the Sword (Russian: Щит и меч ) 1968

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[sovamurka]

Just watched Фишер tv-series

Not me being horny again about Ivan Yankovsky

Listen, I don't understand how but somehow we came to the point where my entire generation is in love with him, his father (+ his wife Oksana Fandera) and his grandfather (rest in peace, Oleg Yankovsky, we still miss you so much)

[menanddogs]

Filipp Olegovich Yankovsky (Russian: Фили́пп Оле́гович Янко́вский) is a Russian actor and film director. He was born on October 10, 1968, to actor Oleg Yankovsky.

[spiritcc]

The Hound of the Baskervilles amusingly features two well-known cinematic duos:

Nikita Mikhalkov and Alexander Adabashyan - this director & art director couple has already staged numerous legendary movies and rarely missed an opportunity to cameo together in them. Despite only Mikhalkov being involved in Hound as an actor, both arrived to the shoot for some reason, so Maslennikov sniped both down by assigning them roles so they'd be too busy to be in director mode to meddle with him, which they still did by improvising about 100% of their scenes.

Oleg Yankovsky and Irina Kupchenko - the Hound was their fifth movie together and the third one where they played a couple (lifetime total came to 6 together, 4 as a couple). I think by the time of the Hound they were just pulling everyone's leg lmao.

[screemnch]

About your Danyas and Tyomas

Hi, it’s almost 2 am and I have a flight in like, 9 hours, which means it’s time for pedantic linguistic musings. Specifically I’d like to share some fun info about Russian phonetics (which I’ve stated many times are really weird) and how that relates to the diminutive names that you can give to Russian characters (including these stupid pathologic characters that live in my head rent free)

As a final preamble I want to point out that this isn’t a critique on the English only speakers within the fandom. I love y’all and you are awesome. However, Russian is it’s own language with distinctive phonetics and notations, and the English language is a bit too… Not limited, but different, and it does not convey Russian words and names properly, especially in notation (don’t get me started on how “Tycheek” is actually pronounced in Russian). And since I’m also here to bridge the gap between languages while also trying not to completely Englishize and Americanize my existence… I’ve decided to talk about the dreaded Russian “y-” vowels.

The Russian language has 10 vowels, which are:

а (“ah” sound, but shorter)

o (“oh” sound but without the “h”)

у (“oo” sound but can be as short as you’d like”)

э (“eh” or like the “e” in the word “ten”)

и (“ee” sound, also can be as short as you’d like)

ы (uhhhhhh… Best I can describe it is the sound you make when you get punched in the stomach)

And that’s it! Here’s the part where you go “wait, tumblr user screemnch, that’s only 6 vowels! Why are you lying to me?” The thing is tho, that I am not lying to you. The other 4 vowels “е”, “ё”, “ю”, and “я” are what I can only describe as “composite vowels” as in vowels that are made up of those I’ve already told you about and the awesome letter “й” (which has the same sound as the “y” in “yes”).

The vowel “e” is comprised of “й” and “э” to make a “yeh” sound.

The vowel “ё” is comprised of “й” and “о” to make a “yoh” sound.

The vowel “ю” is comprised of “й” and “у” to make a “you” sound.

The vowel “я” is comprised of “й” and “а” to make a “yah” sound.

With me so far?

The names we’re looking at today are Daniil (Даниил) and Artemy (Артемий), for which people have elected to use the diminutives of Danya (Даня) and Tyoma (Тёма). Based off of what I explained just now, this makes sense phonetically (and I’ll bet my money that it was my fellow Russian speakers that told y’all about them). HOWEVER. Do not be fooled, do not be deceived. Because Russian phonetic laws get even weirder.

The phonetics I’ve illustrated for you make sense in particular instances. Mainly, when a “composite vowel” is the letter in the very beginning of the word (such as the last name of the Russian actor Oleg Yankovsky. The letter “Я” being in the front makes the “yah” sound).

The other instance is when the “composite vowel” is prefaced with either the soft (ь) or hard (ъ) sign, such is the Russian spelling of cognac (коньяк). These signs have no sound of their own, but provide a kind of separation that allows these “composite vowels” to sounds as I described.

Are you ready for the curveball? It happens when a “composite vowel” is prefaced with a consonant. See, almost all Russian consonants have a “hard” and “soft” versions. It’s a very slight phonemic difference that is difficult to catch if you hadn’t been hearing Russian since childhood (cuz that’s how learning how to distinguish phonemes works. You’re most fine-tuned to the phonemes of the language you were surrounded by as a kid) and is difficult to explain. But I will attempt to.

When you say the word “no” the consonant “n” is a hard one. If you were to use the “soft” version while trying to say “no”, it’d sound a but closer to how you say “gnocchi”.

When you say… Ugh, ok, when you say “nya~” the consonant “n” is a soft one. If you attempted to use the “hard” version while trying to say “nya~” it’d sound more like “nah”.

And that’s what happens in the Russian language. The presence of a regular vowel (except for “и”) dictates that the consonant prior to it is a “hard” one. The presence of a “composite vowel” in turn swallows the “й” (y-) sound in return for softening the prior consonant. Consonants can be soft in other instances. Idk if I’ve actually done it in my analyses when attempting to write phonetics, but you may have seen me use an apostrophe after some letters. I got it in my head some long time ago that that’s how you indicate soft consonants when writing in English, and it’s too late to stop now.

So, if the “й” (y-) sound gets swallowed by the prior consonant, all we get to hear is the “-а” although it sounds like a “я”. So let’s try saying “nya~” the Russian way.

You’d start as if you were trying to say “nya~” how you would in English, but stop short before you actually open your mouth. Substitute the “ya” with an “a” or “ah” sound. The softer “n” sound will alter the vowel, creating (hopefully) the authentic, Russian “��я”.

So, when, for example, saying the name Даня you would apply the same logic. The “y-” sound gets swallowed up by the softened “n”. Same for Тёма. The softer “t” (like in “tea”) swallows up the “y-” sound.

And yes, I’m aware that there isn’t much one can do when writing down names using English letters. But I also don’t really want the whimsical and weird Russian pronunciation to go unappreciated. It’s my language, dangit, it’s worth learning.

Also, I’d encourage you to explore some more fun Russian diminutives. With the names we explored alone you can get the actual Russian nicknames of Данечька (“Danech’ka” using the “-ech’ka/ochka” suffix) and Артёмка (“Artyomka” using the “-ka” suffix).

This concludes today’s linguistic ramblings (and totally not secret propaganda to get people to learn Russian.)

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Actor Oleg Yankovsky (1980s)