Film stuffed biography

The plot was based on real events. The writer said: “It was the story of my native niece from Nizhny Novgorod. She took on someone else's guilt, and her classmates produced her, and the teacher, who was supposed to figure out everything, fell ill with a heart attack. She was tormented for several weeks until the truth was sailed. ” But in the reality of the described events, Goskino officials did not want to believe: in the USSR there simply could not be fascinating schoolchildren burning their own classmate!

Therefore, the script "wrapped". Only in the year was the director who decided to film this story was still found-Rolan Bykov. The plot seemed to him very close and understandable, because he himself was subjected to persecution and felt the same outcast as the main character Lena Bessoltseva - after everyone took up arms against him for the film "Aibolit".

Left Right Actors and roles Roland Bykov very responsibly approached the selection of actors. For all the time of preparation for the film and the formation of the cast, he revised photographs of several thousand children. For the role of the main character, he revised more than 17 thousand girls from all over the Soviet Union. Christina Orbakaite was among those who did not even go through photo tests.

The director saw Lena Bessoltsev with a sweet and modest girl, with the face of a innocent victim, but then realized that I needed another type, under which Christina had already approached. After small samples that lasted several minutes, Bykov finally approved Orbakaite to the main role. The situation was a similar situation with the role of Dima Somov: the director was so desperate that he even tried his stepson for this role, which was already approved for the role of Vasiliev, but this turned out to be an unsuccessful venture.

Once he accidentally saw the son of Natalia Kustinskaya, Mitya Egorova, the director simply requested him to his shooting: “I need this boy. He has a serious face and a capricious lip! Children and other famous actors tried to the role: Philip Yankovsky, Maria Mironova. It is interesting to note that when Marina Martanova did not go to the role of the iron button, the director “a little” corrected the script: the boy was rewritten by the girl in the work of Vladimir Zheleznikov was a boy Tolik Red, a girl Marina appeared instead of him.

It can also be noted that Rolan Bykov in the film shot almost the entire family in the film: his wife Elena Sanaeva played the role of a teacher, senior stepson Oleg - older brother Valka, and younger Pavel - Vasilieva. He even wanted to remove the father -in -law of Vsevolod Sanaev in the role of Nikolai Nikolaevich, but he fell ill. The role of grandfather Lena Bessoltseva was eventually performed by Yuri Nikulin.

This was his last role in full -length cinema. After the premiere, the guys who participated in the filming woke up famous. Unfortunately, for almost all of them, this picture has become the only one in life. The fact that the film really turned out to be successful confirms the love of the audience for it. The film is still popular. The resonance in society 36 years ago by the premiere of this film took place only after Andropov’s intervention-officials did not want to release it due to the fact that Soviet children were shown too cruel.

The appearance of the “scarecrow” caused a very violent reaction among both the audience and critics: director Rolan Bykov was accused of excessive image of children's cruelty and the injection of black colors, not suspecting that the plot was not a fictional, but a real story. Even before the film appeared on the screens, he was sharply criticized - after all, it turned out to be even tougher than the script.

Bykov was accused of thickening of colors. But after the “scarecrow” was released, a real scandal erupted: indignant teachers wrote letters to the director demanding to come to their school and see what actually Soviet schoolchildren are, they say, there is no such cruelty among children. The newspapers published devastating reviews. The audience thanked the director after the show: “We have the same problems!

Filming Left Right Filming began on October 1. At first they decided to shoot all street scenes in order to catch the action of the film in the fall before winter. Nevertheless, that year the snow fell very early, and almost every day it had to be melted, and to hang fake leaves on the trees. Snow was melted with several fire engines. The film was shot in Tver then - Kalinin, separate scenes were shot in the city of Torzhok Tver region.

The scenes in the rooms were shot in the scenery at Mosfilm. The Tver River Station played several roles in the film at once: a hairdresser, where Marina’s mother looks outside, the scene at the beginning and at the end of the arch with the steps, at which at first the guys drive Lena, and in the final Lena, along with her grandfather, descends along her to the pier and the gallery, in which Lena appears for the first time in front of the viewer, and then the guys haunt her.

The appearance of the Bessoltsev house was removed in the old Tver region, and the ruins of the old church in the park of the Ascension of the former Ascension Monastery, in the hallway of which they burned a scarecrow, were filmed.The cinema did not want to release the screen, as ordinary Soviet schoolchildren are shown extremely cruel. The film came to the audience only by personal order of Andropov.

Bykov could not choose a plot for a new film and was very worried about disagreements with the leadership of Goskino. The next morning, according to Bykov’s cheerful mood, his wife realized that he had a book.

Dmitry got to the set by accident - his friend passed the samples and the guy came for the company. At first, Yegorov did not want to act in the role of Dima Somov, very, according to him, his hero was unsympathetic. Natalya Kustinskaya also opposed the filming of her son, but then the guy was lucky - his father was in America at that time. Rolan Bykov said his mother with his characteristic directness: “But no one asks you at all!

When it became known that this was the daughter of Alla Pugacheva, almost no one doubted that the famous singer applied the administrative resource and simply pushed her daughter to the main role. In one of the takes, Christina snapped unsuccessfully, the result was a broken hand. Gypsum was applied to the girl, and she continued to shoot her hand in a green scarf.

Alla Pugacheva demanded a stop of the filming process, but Christina courageously insisted on continuing work. At one time, the girl also took on someone else's guilt, in a few weeks she was completely harassed yesterday quite friendly classmates. Perhaps in this situation the teacher could understand, but just at that time he ended up in a hospital with a heart attack.

The author of the book did not want to introduce a serious illness of the teacher into the plot, but simply described the marriage of the class teacher. Similar to the situation shown in the film was also in the family of Rolan Bykov - his younger stepson was also subjected to the persecution of classmates in the elementary school.