Video: Behind the scenes of the film "Beware of the car": Why Ryazanov was accused of encouraging bad instincts
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The famous Soviet actor could have turned 93 on March 28 Innokenty Smoktunovsky, but he has been dead for 24 years. He played more than 150 roles in theater and cinema, but the films "Hamlet" by G. Kozintsev and "Watch out for the car" E. Ryazanov. Few viewers know that the role of Yuri Detochkin was originally intended for another actor, the script was repeatedly sent to the shelf, and the director was accused of promoting an immoral lifestyle.
Ryazanov heard the story of how a certain modern Robin Hood stole cars from crooks and bribe-takers, sold and transferred the proceeds to orphanages. And in each of the cities, residents claimed that it was their fellow countryman. Yuri Nikulin told him a legend with the same story about a driver from Kuibyshev and was sure that they wrote about it in the newspapers.
Eldar Ryazanov and his co-author Emil Braginsky set out to find a prototype by all means. In the book "Unsummed Results" the director said: "".
The director saw his hero not as a noble robber from a western, but as a strange, naive and childishly simple-hearted person with an ordinary appearance. Ryazanov saw Yuri Nikulin as Detochkin. The artist gave his consent, but just before filming began, it turned out that his circus was going on a long foreign tour. To save the film and free Nikulin from this trip, Ryazanov decided to turn to the minister. And then the real problems began.
The script of the film raised questions even at the initial stage from the editors of the Film Committee: why Detochkin steals cars instead of just coming to the police and declaring the unearned income of citizens? Is he a positive hero or a negative one, a criminal or a fighter for justice? And when the script got to the minister, he was completely outraged by the fact that, by arousing the audience's sympathy for Detochkin, the director thereby encourages their bad instincts and pushes them to commit crimes. They say they will watch a movie and start stealing cars themselves. After that, the shooting was mothballed.
Then Ryazanov, together with Braginsky, remade the script into a detective story and published it in a magazine. The work was a great success with both readers and critics. And the officials of the State Committee for Cinematography allowed to film it - after all, the plot had already been successfully "tested". This time Nikulin was again unable to act because of the tour, and the director decided to look for another protagonist. Leonid Kuravlev and Oleg Efremov auditioned for the role of Detochkin, but Innokenty Smoktunovsky was the most organic in this image. Kuravlev lacked strangeness, and about Efremov, the artist said: "". And the actor was approved for the role of an investigator.
However, Smoktunovsky was very busy in the theater and could not find time for filming. To film a screen test, Ryazanov and a group went to Smoktunovsky in Leningrad. The actor looked tired, moreover, he began to have health problems, and the auditions came out unsuccessful. But the director did not want to deviate from his plan. He persuaded Smoktunovsky to star in the film, and this role became his triumph. The "star" of the cinema was not only this actor, but also … the car "Volga", on which Detochkin escaped the chase: after that he "played" a taxi to Dubrovka in the "Diamond Hand", and Oleg Efremov drove Tatyana around Moscow Doronin in the film Three Poplars on Plyushchikha.
From filming in this film, Smoktunovsky received a lot of emotions. Later he recalled: "".
The film was an incredible success with viewers: in 1966 it was watched by 29 million people. Innokenty Smoktunovsky became the best actor of the year according to the magazine "Soviet Screen" and received the prize for the best actor at the international film festival in Spain. True, after significant overwork in the theater and in the cinema, the actor fell ill with eye tuberculosis, and the doctors forbade him to act. Ryazanov long blamed himself for not saving him from unnecessary stress, which may have accelerated the development of the disease.
In the life of an actor, this was not the only serious test: how fate took care, but did not spoil Innokenty Smoktunovsky.
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