Marionettes (film) 1934
Marionettes (Russian: Марионетки) is a 1934 Soviet satirical antifascist film starring Anatoli Ktorov and directed by Yakov Protazanov and Porfiri Podobed.
The film is a hybrid of several genres: musical comedy, social satire and political propaganda.
The film begins with a prologue in which a master of ceremonies (Igor Arkadin) introduces the principal cast - all of whom are named after the seven notes of the musical scale (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, and Ti) - in the form of marionettes on a puppet stage.
The scene then transitions to the fictional European constitutional monarchy of Boufferia, which is racked by economic chaos and political unrest. The nation's major political factions - monarchists, liberals, fascists, and socialists - squabble fruitlessly in parliament, while the common people grow increasingly radicalized by the example of the USSR, with which Boufferia shares a heavily militarized border. The king is unable to exert a stabilizing influence, being only a boy of seven, so the country's secret rulers - a cabal of wealthy capitalists - decide to replace him with a more mature and capable figure. They conclude that most suitable candidate is the prince Do (Anatoli Ktorov), a dissipated playboy living abroad and mired in debt.
The prince accepts the throne, but on the way to Boufferia, he has too much to drink, leans too far out an airplane window, and falls out, unnoticed by the other passengers and aircrew. When the plane lands, the cheering crowd mistakes Do's valet and barber So (Sergei Martinson) for the prince, and - despite his inarticulate protests - he is acclaimed as the new sovereign and carried off to the palace.
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