Baba Yaga is one of the most controversial fairy tale characters. On the one hand, this is an evil old woman who lives in a dense forest in a hut on chicken legs, where she lures small children and good fellows and roasts them in the oven. On the other hand, this old woman helping the same good fellows, giving them some magical artifacts and helping to defeat the main villain.
Yaga possessed a private vehicle of medium capacity - a stupa. It is now accepted that the stupa flies, but in early texts it runs more often, which is natural, given its hefty mass, which is in no way adapted to flight. At the same time, it develops a decent but not transcendent speed: judging by the time it takes to chase a horseman, its capabilities can be estimated at about 60 km / h.
Another vehicle is a pomelo - an aircraft of high maneuverability disguised as household utensils, capable of vertical take-off, peak and much more. Pomelo entered the Yagi car park relatively late; it is possible that his Yaga borrowed from mortal witches. Antique sources usually do not mention this item. In Yagi, it often serves as part of the stupa. Then she taxis them, then “the trace sweeps up”
Well, the most interesting thing is a hut on chicken legs. Call it real estate Yagi - language does not turn. After all, judging by some sources on these very legs, this van can move (and if you believe the animated film about the blast furnace, it is very frisky). In addition, the hut is either speaking or, at least, understands the speech of a person. The anti-theft usually had the appearance of a talking skull that needs to be given a password
The first image of Baba Yaga in the cinema was embodied by Georgy Frantsevich Millyar in 1939 in Alexander Row's fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful. He practically invented the costume and makeup of Baba Yaga - dirty gray rags nailed on his torso and head, gray pats, large warty nose , sticking out fangs, madly glistening eyes. Baba Yaga Milljara turned out to be not only terrible, sinister and terrible, but also to some extent a textbook
Alexander Rowe shot several more fairy tales in which George Frantsevich also played the role of Baba Yaga
This "Frost" In 1965
“Fire, water and ... copper pipes” 1967
and the Golden Horns of 1972
An interesting image of Baba Yaga was created by Zinovy Gerd in a musical television movie in the genre of the New Year's revue "At the Thirteenth o'clock in the Night" filmed by Larisa Shepitko in 1969
The image of the good Baba Yaga was created by Valentina Sperantov in the fairy tale “Funny Magic”, which was shot in 1969 based on the play “Katya and Miracles” by Nina Gernet and Gregory Yagdfeld
Maya Bulgakova played a very unconventional Baba Yagu in the 1971 fairy tale "Lada from the country of Berendeys"
In the New Year's fairy tale of 1975 “New Year's Adventures of Masha and Vity”, Valentina Kosobutskaya played a cunning old woman
In 1977, another kind Baba-Yaga turned out to be in Maria Barabanova in a wonderful fairy tale by Nadezhda Kosheverova, “How Ivanushka the Fool followed the miracle”
Well, the kindest Baba Yaga turned out in 1982 in Tatiana Peltzer in the fairy tale by Mikhail Yuzovsky “There, on unknown paths ...”
At this, the fabulous images of Baba Yaga in Soviet cinema could have been completed if it were not for two more films that can be attributed to fairy tales only conditionally. These are fantastic paintings based on the stories of Kira Bulychev about Alice Selezneva.
This is the “Lilac Ball”, filmed in 1987 by Pavel Arsenov, where Svetlana Kharitonova played Babu Yaga
And “The Island of the Rusty General” by Valentina Khovenko, where not even Baba Yaga herself, but a robot actor in the form of this charming old woman, was brilliantly played by Alexander Lenkov
These are the images of the charming old woman were created in the Soviet cinema. If interested, you can make a similar post about the granny in animation.
For now, let's move on to the post-Soviet Yaga
Like about Pity, the first time about Yaga was remembered in 2004, when the movie "The Legend of Plot or In Search of the Thirtieth Kingdom" was released.
The truth is that here Yaga (or rather Yagda) is still a young girl who loves a young and courageous Kashchei
Although no, there was before this another Yaga - in an attempt to film the wonderful tale of Leonid Filatov "The Tale About Fedot-Archer". There the old woman played Olga Volkova
In 2009, Liya Akhedzhakova played in the Disney "Book of Masters" Baba Yaga
Another atypical Yaga performed by Anna Yakunina was in a misunderstanding called “Adventures in the Thirtieth Kingdom”
Good Baba Yaga living in our world in 2009 played Lyudmila Polyakova in the film "The Real Fairy Tale"
And the last (today) image of Baba Yaga was embodied on the screen by Elena Yakovleva in the movie “The Last Knight”
And how do you think, who really was Yaga before she got into the world of fairy tales - an evil witch, a healer-healer, a powerful goddess - the mother of all living things or undead - a guide to the other world. After all, obviously this fairy-tale hero had a type — vivid, memorable, but greatly distorted by time and people.
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