Video: Two favorite Mosfilm mascots: Invisible heroes of the most famous Soviet films
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
These films, which have long become classics of Soviet cinema, are known to many viewers by heart. However, even the most avid moviegoers hardly paid attention to the details that are repeated in these films. The most popular props of the film studio appear in the frames "Office Romance", "Diamond Hand", "Formulas of Love" and other films. These inconspicuous "heroes" managed to appear with the most famous actors and flashed on the screen so often that they began to be called the "Mosfilm" mascots.
The first "hero" of many famous films is the statue of Perseus and Pegasus. The same bronze horse, under the weight of which in "Office Romance" Novoseltsev falls, looking for a place where to hide the gift so that "the hero of the day would not be delighted ahead of time." This "role" has become the most stellar for the bronze horse - it appears in the frame several times, and the audience's attention is focused on it purposefully. However, this is not the first or the last film in which the same sculpture can be seen.
Many actors could envy the list of films in which this hero "starred". The first "film work" of the bronze horse was Mikhail Romm's film "The Secret Mission" (1950). The picture is dedicated to the events taking place in Germany in 1945. A bronze sculpture adorns a mansion in Hitler's Germany and appears in the frame with the actor Alexander Pelevin, who played Schellenberg.
In 1965, the horse again appeared on the screen in the comedy "The Package". This time he "watched" the interrogation of the Red Army soldier, played by Valery Zolotukhin. For the actor, this was his debut role in the cinema, for the bronze horse - already the second. In 1968, the statue of Perseus and Pegasus appeared in one shot with Yuri Nikulin in The Diamond Hand, in the episode when Semyon Gorbunkov went into a thrift store and asked the saleswoman: “Do you have exactly the same one, but without wings?"
In 1977, the finest hour came for the favorite sculpture from the Mosfilm props. Thanks to Novoseltsev, the bronze horse became another hero of the Office Romance. Director's assistant Evgeny Tsymbal recalled: "".
In "Office Romance" this sculpture as a gift to the hero of the day is chosen by Shura, whose role was played by Lyudmila Ivanova. And then she herself was presented with the same. "". Anyone can please the hero of the day with such a gift, if desired: copies of the work of the sculptor Emile Louis Pico "Perseus and Pegasus" (1888) are made and sold in large quantities.
A year later, the statue of Perseus and Pegasus appeared in the frame of the film "My affectionate and gentle animal". She consolidated her success in 1995 in the comedy "Shirley-Myrli", appearing in the frame with Vera Alentova.
The second Mosfilm mascot is a female statue, the very same Praskovya Tulupova, which Count Cagliostro tried to revive in the film Formula of Love. Here she became practically one of the main characters and appeared in the frame more than once.
Then the statue migrated to the "Office Romance" - the record holder for the most popular Mosfilm props. Poor Bublikov looked out from behind the legs of this statue, watching the female legs scurrying past him up and down the stairs.
In 1980, this "heroine" appeared in one shot with Valentina Talyzina in the film "Evening Maze". In the movie "Vassa" this statue adorned the garden, and in the movie "Old New Year" it inspired bath visitors.
Nowadays, the female statue's film career is over. Now she adorns the garden not far from the Pokrovsky Gates, on Vorontsov Pole, in the courtyard of the old restored mansion of Vandyshnikova-Banza.
For those who visit Mosfilm for the first time, it seems like a real Through the Looking Glass with many amazing secrets: Russian Hollywood, or a Journey Beyond the Movie Screen.
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