A. CONAN DOYLE'S STORY “THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES” AND SOVIET MOVIE-SHERLOKIANA

Abstract

In article the problem of a film adaptation of a literary work in a context of a cultural transfer theory is investigated. On a material of the Soviet film adaptation of A. Conan Doyle`s story “The Hound of the Baskervilles” is analyzed process direct and inversive assignments of other culture elements, which result becomes introduction in use of concepts “Russian Sherlock Holmes”, “Russian England”. The strategy of game realized in game behaviour of characters, has allowed the
Soviet director to pass the parodical-ironic tone, inherent in the Victorian epoch. Created by the Soviet director in “The Hound of the Baskervilles” an image of Russian England and the Russian Englishmen-heroes who have taken roots in Russian national cultural ground, the initial English culture has apprehended as own, durably identifying Konan Doyle`s characters with Russian actors – V. Livanov, V. Solomin, N. Mikhalkov, etc.