Марк Бернес - Тёмная ночь 1943 - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Dark night

Music: N. Bogoslovsky

Words: V. Agatov

Dark night, only bullets whistle across the steppe,

Only the wind hums in the wires, the stars flicker dimly.

On a dark night, my love, I know you don’t sleep,

And at the crib you secretly wipe away a tear.

How I love the depth of your tender eyes,

How I want to press my lips to them now!

The dark night divides us, my love,

And the alarming, black steppe lay between us.

I believe in you, my dear friend,

This faith kept me safe from a bullet on a dark night...

I am happy, I am calm in mortal combat,

I know you will meet me with love, no matter what happens to me.

Death is not scary; we have encountered it more than once in the steppe.

And now she’s circling above me.

You wait for me and don’t sleep by the crib,

And therefore I know: nothing will happen to me!

1944

1943

History of the song

In 1942, at the Tashkent Film Studio, which became the center of filmmakers and theater workers, director Leonid Lukov shot the film “Two Fighters.” The picture told about the strong front-line friendship of two soldiers, a good-natured, leisurely, thorough hero - “Sasha from Uralmash” and a temperamental joker and joker - Odessa resident Arkasha Dzyubina.

Boris Andreev was approved for the role of Sasha Svintsov immediately, because Leonid Lukov knew him well, filmed him even before the war in 1939, in his film “Big Life”. But a competition was organized for the role of Arkady Dzyubin. Among two dozen candidates, the candidacies of Pyotr Aleinikov and Nikolai Kryuchkov were discussed. Mark Bernes was not invited to audition at all. But he begged the director and was approved.

From Evgeniy Gabrilovich’s memoirs about the actors:

“He sat, sat, talked, got angry and smiled, this Ural guy Sasha from Uralmash, and it suddenly became extremely clear, not in words, not in phrases, but in the whole structure of this slowness, this slow handwriting of gestures, movements, expression of the eyes, that such "Russia cannot be broken either by shouting or by tanks. Once such a guy stood up, took a machine gun, put on his helmet, then there is no frost, no rivers, no death for him, he will win... Bernes turned into an unexpected side in the film. I saw the variety, Odessa dialect, then right there, nearby, as if in one line, in one running stream, I saw something else - vast and significant, human and soldierly, which (again without tanks and explosions) spoke of the strength of the people and certain victory."

The songs in this film were not planned at first. However, soon the director demanded from Nikita Bogoslovsky a lyrical ballad for the scene in the dugout.

From the memoirs of Nikita Bogoslovsky:

“One late evening the director of the film, Leonid Lukov, came to me and said: “You see, I can’t do a scene in a dugout without a song.” And he staged it so amazingly, as if, like an actor, he played this non-existent song, what happened miracle. I sat down at the piano and played the entire melody of “Dark Night” without a single stop. This happened to me for the first (and, obviously, the last) time in my life... The poet Agatov, who arrived instantly at Lukov’s request, was here very quickly, almost without mistakes, I wrote poems to ready-made music."

Mark Bernes, who always spent months learning songs, prepared "Dark Night" in literally 15 minutes. The song was recorded, and in the morning they were already filming the scene in the dugout to the soundtrack of this song...

The film forever became the calling card of Mark Bernes, who received the Order of the Red Star from the government for it, and from Odessa residents the title “Honorary Resident of the City of Odessa.”

The film “Two Soldiers” was released on the screens of the USSR on October 6, 1943, and reached the front at the end of the year. By this time, literally all front-line soldiers knew the song “Dark Night”: even before the release of the film, Nikita Bogoslovsky met Utesov in Moscow on the way to the front Leonid Osipovich, having heard “Dark Night,” included the song in his repertoire and even recorded it on a record before it was featured in the film.