Jul 142009
Some time back I wrote about the lack of pipe organs in Russian films, and how the only one I had seen was associated with the bad guys. (Where bad guys = the Germans, in “Alexander Nevsky”). Now I’ve found another. But again, it’s in a German church. The organist is shown here in a screen shot.
This instance occurs in part 3 of “Seventeen Moments of Spring”. (Wikipidia link here because it wasn’t easy for me to find the article for that film, believe it or not.)
The word mgnovenij in the title was new to me, and I wasn’t quite sure what to do with the consonant cluster “mgn”. But the word occurs in the theme song and it turns out it’s pronounced pretty much as I had guessed it might be. At least it is when it’s sung.