כדי לשחזר את השיר בשפה המקורית אם אינו מופיע לאחר לחיצה על שם השיר המסומן כאן בקוו תחתון או כדי למצוא גירסות נוספות העתיקו/הדביקו את שם השיר בשפת המקור מדף זה לאתר YOUTUBE
To restore the song in the original language if it does not appear after clicking on the name of the song marked here with a bottom line or to find additional versions Copy/Paste the song name in the original language from this page to the YOUTUBE website
התרגומים לאנגלית נעשו באמצעות המנוע "מתרגם גוגל" והתרגום הועתק לאתר בצורתו המקורית ללא עריכה נוספת
The English translations were done using the "Google Translate" engine and the translations were copied to the site in their original form without further editing.
Notes written by Izzy Hod: The poem, The city on the Kama River, is about a chapter in the life of the Russian writer, Maxim Gorky, who was born as Alexei Maksimovich Pashkov. Gorky wrote the stories of his life in the trilogy, My Childhood/Among Humanities/My universities. At the same time, three motion pictures appeared, about Gorky's life and the first one called, Gorky's Childhood and in the movie, a group of children are walking through the fields, looking for a city, near the Kama river, where one of the children, a boy named Alexei [Gorky], was born and lived for many years and his ambition is to see the city again, but he does not remember its name, except that it was located near the Kama river, one of the major tributaries of the Volga river, and since the children cannot find the city, they begin to tease the boy Alexei and recite to him again and again the recitation, written by Gorky, in the first book of the trilogy, The city on the Kama river, we won't know where it is, we won't find it anywhere, we won't reach it by walking, we won't reach it by rowing, this is the city on the Kama. To these words, the composer Lev Alexandrovich Schwartz wrote music and the song, The city on the Kama River was born, the words of which are attributed to Gorky and, probably, also to one of Gorky's friends and perhaps more. The song appears in the film Gorky's Childhood and sung by the children, in the original major scale. The film was produced in 1938, and it is about 13th years old Gorky [in 1913]. In the film, Alexei Pashkov [Gorky], after the death of his father, arrives with his mother and brother, at the harsh grandfather's house and his grandmother, who has a simple and honest character, encourages him, in the struggles he gets into, with the members of the house and the grandfather's team of employees. The life in the film is a life of harsh poverty, before the revolutions of 1917. Blind and sick, languishing at work, with no hope. Alexei [Gorky] and his friends, feeding on garbage cans, hopeless, and wandering in search of a utopian land. The city the children are looking for is Nizhny Novgorod [Nizhnikamsk?] where Gorky was indeed born and lived, located in the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia, which was founded on the banks of the Volga and its tributaries, Kama, in 1221 and was even called Gorky at one time [1990-1932], after the name of the author who lived there. Another city that claims the honor concerning the film and the song, is the city, Sarapol, a city and a river port in the Tatarstan Republic, Russia, located on the right bank of the Kama River. Further in the film, at the grandfather's house, quarrels develop over the future inheritance [paint and dyeing factory], between the grandfather's brothers, sons and grandsons. Alexey, is even beaten for this and the one who protects him, is a young gypsy who works for the grandfather, who suddenly died in hard labor, carrying a huge cross to the top of the mountain, which the grandfather's sons loaded on him, in an intention to get rid of him so he would not compete with them on the inheritance. Then, the paint and dye factory burns down and everyone moves to another city. There Alexei learns to read and write by his grandfather and an anti-tsarist chemist, who was finally forced to escape from the tsarist police, and he begins to write down and record his grandmother's stories. At this point, Alexei finds himself protecting his grandfather's blind brother from a gang who abused him in the street, and then he started collecting alms and even joining a group of poor and starving children, including a paralyzed child and since his grandfather once again lost all his possessions and his house and his mother, who got engaged a second time, was also left home and leaves him when she moved with her fiancé to his city, Alexei [Gorky], who stayed with his grandparents, begins his livelihood with his friends, searching for metal tools and discarded clothes, which he sells and even supports his grandmother. Alexei no longer finds any sense in his grandfather's house, he is also forced to collect alms and he goes out accompanied by his friends, to look for the city on the Kama, where he once was born and lived, to start his own life. He says goodbye to them, walks away, as they wave goodbye to each other, as the song "The city on the kama" is heard in the background. The song is played and sung several times throughout the film as well.
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