Video: Behind the scenes of the film "Intergirl": Why Pyotr Todorovsky was pursued by prostitutes, but he refused to start filming
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
August 26 to the famous film director Pyotr Todorovsky could have turned 93, but, unfortunately, in 2013 he passed away. The films "Beloved woman of mechanic Gavrilov", "Field novel", "Anchor, another anchor!" film "Intergirl", which in 1989 made a splash among the Soviet audience. But the most interesting thing remained behind the scenes.
The film was shot based on the story "Freken Tanka" by Vladimir Kunin. The idea to write a book about the life of foreign exchange prostitutes came when he lived in a hotel in the center of Warsaw and every day met the representatives of the first ancient there. He was so imbued with the problems of these girls that after the script was published, the writer was called in Pravda a "porno-retailer" for his undisguised sympathy for corrupt women.
Unlike Kunin, director Pyotr Todorovsky was not familiar with prostitutes and did not even know what they looked like. And he did not want to take on this script. The front-line soldier, from whom everyone expected serious, deep lyrical pictures like the "War Field Romance", simply could not make a movie about prostitutes. But the director was persuaded by his wife Mira. It was she who came up with the idea to film Kunin's story, and she was even able to find sponsors for this abroad. She called herself a producer, although at that time such a profession was not yet known in the USSR.
The Goskino did not approve of her venture - the topic seemed too frivolous at that time. Only the name of the director sounded convincing, that's why they agreed to shoot. "", - admitted Peter Todorovsky.
But behind the scenes there were plenty of "strawberries". They wrote about the beginning of filming in the magazine "Soviet Screen", and the director began to be overcome by the most real representatives of the ancient profession. They sent him their candid photographs and letters, in which they stated: "". Some came directly to Mosfilm. According to the director, among them were students and minors, and even a candidate of sciences, who met with ten men, collecting money for a doctoral dissertation. In fact, they looked much more modest and inconspicuous than in the film, but the dresser decided to add theatrical brightness to the images of the prostitutes, so on the screens the audience saw them in extravagant outfits, in which they would not have been allowed close to the hotel in life.
Todorovsky did not even imagine Elena Yakovleva in the title role, but he approved it at his own peril and risk. Although in the process of filming with her difficulties arose: the actress refused to undress in front of the camera and star in bed scenes. But the Swedish groom of the main character was played by a real Swede, actor Tomas Laustiola, who did not hide the fact that he once not only knew, but even lived with a prostitute for some time.
The most piquant scene of the film, in which Tanya gives herself to the Japanese, was not easy. “, - says Peter Todorovsky. -.
Few believed in the success of this project, but Interdevochka became the leader of the 1989 release. People stood in long lines in the streets and stormed the box office to see the film. Over the year, "Intergirl" was watched by more than 41 million people. But in Sweden, where one of the companies financed the shooting, the film was never released, since this company went bankrupt, but it was bought in Japan, Germany and Canada.
Before this work, the audience did not know Elena Yakovleva, and in 1989 she was recognized as the best actress according to the results of a poll by the magazine "Soviet Screen". True, popularity also had a downside: she was often identified with the screen heroine. The actress began to be assailed by dubious fans, including prisoners. Elena Yakovleva is so tired of the fact that everyone associates her name with this role that several years ago she even established a special prize for a journalist who will not ask her a question about this film. Of course, it was a joke, but there would still be no applicants for the prize - she is always asked about this role.
One of the actresses for the role was approved immediately and without samples, and she coped with her task remarkably. Life as an eccentric tragicomedy: the non-Soviet face of Lyubov Polishchuk.
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