Table of contents:
- What won the audience with the plot of the film "Wedding in Malinovka"
- Why the leading actor Mikhail Pugovkin could not appear in the tape
- Real love behind the scenes "Weddings in Malinovka"
- Interesting facts about the legendary motion picture
Video: Real love on the set of the Soviet musical "Wedding in Malinovka" and other behind-the-scenes secrets of the cult comedy
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The cult Soviet film "The Wedding in Malinovka", released in 1967, is considered the standard in the genre of musical comedy. Its director Andrei Tutyshkin managed to create one of the highest-grossing films of those times, beloved by the audience. Thanks to good music, dances, brilliant performance of popular actors and folk humor, along with the fight against the gang of "Pan Fritz Tavrichesky", the film became a legend in cinema. And on the set at times events unfolded no less fascinating than in the frame.
What won the audience with the plot of the film "Wedding in Malinovka"
Residents of the picturesque Ukrainian village of Malinovka, tired of the civil war, are waiting for the wedding of the shepherd Andreyka and the daughter of the revolutionary's widow, Yarinka. Once the village is attacked by a gang of a former resident and "ideological chieftain" Gritian Tavrichesky.
Young Yarinka took a closer look at the leader, and he tries to marry him with threats. In fear, the girl runs away into the forest, where she falls into a detachment of Red Army cavalry. The main character asks for help from the commander of the detachment Nazar Dumas. He develops a plan that is able to defeat the superior in numbers enemy, but for this Yarinka must marry the chieftain.
The viewer is presented with a civil war, power passing from hand to hand, and most importantly - the life of ordinary people, which continues no matter what.
The all-Union premiere of the tape took place on April 29, 1967. Thus began the film's triumphant march across the Soviet republics, where it gathered more than 70 million viewers in front of the screens.
Why the leading actor Mikhail Pugovkin could not appear in the tape
Initially, "The Wedding in Malinovka" was planned to be filmed at the A. Dovzhenko Film Studio in Kiev. But this idea was not destined to come true. The picture was deemed unsuitable for the anniversary of the revolution. As a result, the tape was transferred to Lenfilm, where Andrei Tutyshkin got down to business.
The cast did not cause problems, except for Mikhail Pugovkin, around whom a scandal almost erupted. Tutyshkin saw only Pugovkin in the character of Yashka, while the director's assistant had her own candidate for this role. For several months Tutyshkin was assured of the actor's carelessness, his absence in the city and the inability to contact him. But, as it turned out during a personal telephone conversation between Andrei Petrovich and Pugovkin, the actor was in Moscow and was in full readiness to play the role.
However, the difficulties did not end there. According to the plot of the film, Yashka was supposed to perform the dance "Into the Steppe", but Mikhail Pugovkin was not a dance master. He had to polish the movements for a month and a half day a day under the supervision of choreographer Galina Shekhovskaya. As a result, the stage with the musical number became one of the most beloved for Mikhail Ivanovich.
Part of the film was shot directly in the villages of Peski, Khoroshki and Matsukovtsy in the Poltava region. The villagers were happy to work as extras in the scenes. So they could get 50 kopecks per shift. It was possible to earn even up to three rubles, but for this it was necessary to prepare props, for example, a pet, or be able to dance well.
Real love behind the scenes "Weddings in Malinovka"
On the set of the movie "Wedding in Malinovka", at least two real families were born. The participants in the process still remember how a resident of one of the villages fell in love with the girl-driver Andrei Tutyshkin. For the sake of his beloved, the man left his small homeland and moved to Leningrad.
During the making of the film, actress Lyudmila Alfimova, who plays Sophia, met her soul mate. The chairman of the collective farm fell in love with a woman. For the sake of the artist, the man bought the estate of Count Pototsky, the owner of which Alfimova soon became.
Interesting facts about the legendary motion picture
"Wedding in Malinovka" is a kind of documentary film. The script is based on the operetta of the same name, popular in the 30s. The music of the work belongs to Boris Alexandrov; Leonid Yukhvid was responsible for the libretto. He, in fact, witnessed the described events in Ukraine. Most of the images, even some phrases were taken from the recollections of the playwright.
Lyudmila Alfimova was approved for the role of Sonya's soldier quite by accident. The actress, who was supposed to play Yarinka's mother, suddenly fell ill. Tutyshkin, seeing a new candidate in the image, immediately realized that this role would be her. Yarka was embodied on the screen by a student of the Leningrad Theater Institute Valentina Nikolaenko, who replaced Larisa Golubkina. Moreover, it is also completely accidental. Golubkina was busy in other projects, so she had to give up the role.
A comedy and a comedy, that even the filming was fun. Once the actors decided to play a trick on Nikolaenko, replacing her tea in the wedding scene with cognac. Not knowing about the prank, the director demanded that the actress drink the entire contents of the glass. But she could not do this for obvious reasons.
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