Video: "Kuban Cossacks": Why Secretary General Khrushchev for 12 years banned the showing of the picture
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Musical comedy "Kuban Cossacks" came out on movie screens in 1950. This unpretentious film about a happy and well-fed life in Soviet collective farms fell in love with the viewer. He was even awarded a state prize. However, after 6 years, the film was put on the shelf for many years. Why "Kuban Cossacks" did not like Khrushchev - further in the review.
In the late 1940s, director Ivan Pyriev decided to shoot a cheerful and optimistic picture about the life of the common people. He was delighted with colorful and noisy fairs such as Sorochinskaya, Nizhegorodskaya. The director's imagination painted the Kuban, although there were no fairs there. The script for the future film was written by Nikolai Pogodin. The painting received the working title "Collective Farm Fair", but then it was renamed "Merry Fair".
Casting was not as easy as initially expected. If the director immediately approved his wife Marina Ladynina for the role of the chairman of the collective farm Galina Peresvetova, then it was more difficult with Gordey Voron, who is in love with her. The actress invited Pyriev to audition Sergei Lukyanov, but he rejected the actor. When the mustache was glued to Lukyanov, they put on the appropriate suit, photographed and showed the picture to the director, he immediately exclaimed:
The role of the lead Dasha Shelest went to the then aspiring actress Klara Luchko. It happened quite by accident, because Luchko was characterized as a "Turgenev" lyrical heroine. But in the locker room, Klara Stepanovna ran into Ivan Pyriev. He quickly glanced at the girl in a scarf and fur coat, and the next day the actress received an invitation to audition.
They decided to shoot a motion picture in the village of Kurgannaya on the collective farm with a population of one million "Kuban". On its territory there was a winery, a cinema, a hotel, a school and even a zoo. That collective farm broke all yield records.
In order for the actors to better get used to the roles and feel the spirit of collective farm life in the Kuban, Pyrier sent them to agricultural work. People were put behind the wheel of a combine, sent at night to row grain on the current.
When the premiere of the film took place, the whole country began to sing songs from "Kuban Cossacks". Today, "Oh, the viburnum is in bloom" and "What were you?" Music by Isaac Dunaevsky.
When the finished film was shown to Joseph Stalin, he said:. On his own initiative, the "Merry Fair" was renamed into "Kuban Cossacks" and presented with the Stalin Prize.
In 1956, Nikita Khrushchev became the head of the country, and a campaign began to debunk the personality cult of Stalin. The "Kuban Cossacks" also fell under this comb. Khrushchev called the film too positive and unrealistic, they say, people on collective farms did not live so well. The screening of the film was stopped.
In fairness, it should be noted that in the motion picture the life of collective farmers is really embellished, in the post-war years people had a hard time. Plus, there was no good versus bad in the plot. However, the people went to see the film with pleasure. Soviet composer Vladimir Dashkevich reasoned about it this way:
It took as long as 12 years before the "Kuban Cossacks" came out on the screens again. Then came the time of Brezhnev. Almost everything related to Stalin was cut out of the film, dialogues were replaced in some scenes. Marina Ladynina re-voiced herself, but for Sergei Lukyanov, who was no longer alive, Yevgeny Matveev spoke.
Another aspiring actress Ekaterina Savinova was lucky to star in "Kuban Cossacks". However, luck turned into misfortune: Ivan Pyriev unequivocally hinted at her intimate relationship. The proud girl refused him, for which she paid for being included in the "black list". Only after 13 years Savinova played the main role - Frosya Burlakova in the film "Come tomorrow".
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