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For Pure tiger "Striped flight" is the fifth film in which the predator had to be removed.

The film was shot on the ship "Fryazino", at sea on route from Odessa to Batumi. On the ship "the Sailor Zheleznyakov" was conducted the rehearsal in Leningrad. On "Lenfilm" was filmed at the pavilion stage.

Filming took place on the southern shore of the Crimea and Leningrad.

The car, which carry the tiger to the end of the film — ZIS-110B, a convertible version of the popular after the war, the ZIS-110 limousine.

The film was produced on the initiative of N. S. Khrushchev after a visit to the circus and exploring the charming Margarita Nazarova.

The picture is removed on motives of stories of Victor Kopecky.

Is in attendance a 51-th place among domestic films in the history of Soviet film distribution.

Getting started on the Comedy "Striped flight", Director Vladimir Fetin grimly joked: "we'll Try to make a truly interesting film if we remain alive..."

In the episodes you can see well known actors. For example, Vasily Lanovoy, by the time managed to play major roles in the films "matriculation" and "Colleagues", it appears here in the role of one of the campers on the beach and that he belongs to the phrase about a group of swimmers in striped bathing suits. For a young actress Alisa Freundlich, who played the barmaid, "Striped Flight" is the fourth work in the movies.

Love the line in the movie appeared thanks to the initiative of the second screenwriter Alexei Kapler.

The role of the main character is in love with the barmaid XO Marianne — starred a famous tamer Margarita Nazarova. His career in the circus Nazarova began in 1945 as acrobat, and then tried himself in the role of racers. Tiger tamer she began with a light hand of the trainer (and later wife) Constantine Constantine. Role in "Striped flight" was her only acting job in the movie, before that it was only performed as a stand-professional Actresses (for example, Lyudmila Kasatkina in the film "tiger girl").

Alexei Smirnov (Knysh) a month are carefully cared for tigers that they are allowed to pull its own tail.

According to the scenario of a lion was put to sleep, but sleeping pill didn't affect him. Was worth to approach him, and he opened his eyes. Actors, of course, fear. And this was the last day — ended in a rental vehicle. Then decided the lion to kill. Excuse yourself filmmakers did what Leo was still old. Volunteered to do pyrotechnics. Drank for courage a glass of vodka, and shot the lion in the ear. Had to be removed urgently, as a lion did not become numb. And the scene where Vaska with rhymes on the stretcher in a cage.

A chimpanzee named Pirate found his wife Cility in the Kiev zoo. Apart monkeys became unmanageable. Therefore the shooting had to invite them both, and while the Pirate was working, Celita was next — were treated to sweets, whom she fed the members of the crew. But a caring Pirate every twenty minutes, interrupted and ran up to her friend to check if she was OK, not hurt her, do all she pleased. By the way, the actor Ivan Dmitriev, who played the role of first mate, so I became friends with a Pirate, that subsequently every time I come to Kiev, certainly was visiting a partner on the set at the zoo.