Операция «Ы» и другие приключения Шурика

The plot of the novels the action takes place in Zarechensk.

Fees for shooting:Leonid Gaidai — 2375 roubles, plus 1500 for the collaboration in writing the script

The bus in which Shurik had a fight with a Tall man — ZIL-158. Now this bus has the collection of the Museum of passenger transport Moscow.

In the Novella "Obsession" Shura and a girl riding on a tram Tatra-T3 hull number 530. This car belonged to one of the first batch of these trams, in contrast to the more recent Tatra it had only two doors. Also in the shot of the tram MTV-82A in a typical coloring book (with cascading red line).

The film was rolled in 1965 (69.6 million viewers).

In 1965, at the festival of short films in Krakow novel "Obsession" was awarded the prize "Silver dragon of Wawel".

The film was shot in Leningrad, in the halls of Mosfilm, in the Sviblovo district and in the heart of Moscow state University (Moscow) and in Odessa. In addition, in the frames of the stories can be quite details to see the architecture of Moscow of 1960-ies.

Is in attendance a 7-th place among domestic films in the history of Soviet film distribution.

The role of the foreman tried out Vladimir Vysotsky.

During the filming in Odessa, part of the actors — Alexey Smirnov, Georgy Vitsin and Yevgeny Morgunov parallel with starred Vladimir Arkhangelsk in the Novella "Skeleton of Apollo" (from almanac "Sometimes" (1965)). The crew of both films lived in the same hotel.

After the success of his previous film "Business people" Director Leonid Gaidai decided to shoot the film on the original script on a contemporary theme. Of the many options he has chosen the script of a Comedy called "Frivolous stories", written by two authors: Yakov Kostyukovskiy and Moris Slobodskoy. The original version consisted of two stories, the main character who was a student of Vlad Arkov — the bespectacled intellectual who fall into different comic situations and with honor out of them. In the first story he re dark and ignorant type, and the second was arranged by the tutor and was preparing to enter the Institute blockhead Ilya.

From 1 June 1964 began auditioning actors for the main and bit parts. The most difficult was the search for the artist himself, which the censors asked me to replace a different name, seeing the analogy with Lenin's name. In the end, the character has become a Shura. Hayday reviewed more than a hundred candidates, among whom were: Oleg vidov, Vsevolod Abdulov, Vitali Solomin, Yevgeny Petrosyan, Sergey Nikonenko, Evgeniy Zharikov, Gennady Korolkov, Ivan Bortnik, Valery Nosik, Alexander Zbruev. He conducted negotiations with Andrei Mironov. In the end, the artistic Council of the Studio settled on the candidature of Valeriy Nosik, although the doubt. By chance he saw a photo of the young actor Alexander Demyanenko, Leonid Gaidai went July 11 to Leningrad for personal talks. Both were satisfied with each other. Then the actor recalled: "I read the script of "Operation "Y"", I realized that the film is doomed to success. Nothing like our movies then were not." In the film, Valery Nosik starred — he played a cameo role of the student in the exam.

In the role of a troubled girl Lena from the novel "Operation "y"" starred daughter of the poet Peter Gradova and the sister of actor Andrew Graduatation. The role of parasite Fedi Gaidai initially invited Mikhail Pugovkin, but after two weeks of thinking he chose the role of the foreman at the construction site, citing the inappropriate growth and complexion.

After the film "Dog Mongrel and unusual cross" and "Bootleggers" hayday stopped creative collaboration with the composer Nikita Theology. With the film "Operation "y" and other adventures Shurik" started joint work with Alexander Zatsepin, then little-known composer. Subsequently, none of the famous film by Leonid Gaidai is not complete without music and songs of this composer.

Leonid Gaidai was drafted into the army in 1942 and first served in Mongolia, where he broke horses for the front. Once the part arrived Commissar for the set replenishment in the army. On the question of the officer: "Who's in the artillery?" — Hayday said: "I am!". He also answered other questions: "Who's the cavalry?", "The Navy?", "Scouting?", which caused the dissatisfaction of the chief. "Yes, you wait, Gaidai, — said the Commissar — Give announce the entire list". The Embassy has adapted this case for the Novella "Partner".

Many humorous scenes were invented during filming by the actors. So, Yuri Nikulin came up with the scene where Shura "hurt" his character (Dunce) rapier, and from his chest flowing "blood" (actually red wine). The scene with the skeleton, snapping teeth, was also improvisation Nikulina.