Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика

The Soviet censorship banned following the opening scene of the film, which came up with Gaidai, Nikulin: Coward fit to the wooden fence and, looking around, draws with chalk the letter "X". Hope Bobby and appends the letter "U". Saw this mess, the policeman is filled with the trill of the whistle. But Dunce, undaunted, writes: "the film".

The idea of the film was born after I told him I read in a newspaper story about the abduction of a girl in love with a horseman in the Transcaucasian Republic.

On the set broke up the trio Vitsin — Morgunov — Nikulin. Artists and not so friends. And here sozvezdii Morgunov began to behave shamelessly. Once he brought a girl, and Gaidai while watching the footage were asked to leave all outsiders out of the room, the girl wanted to get up, and whisper stopped her and said it doesn't apply to her what the Embassy said that it just refers to the girl Morgunova, to which SC responded that she's not a stranger, then hayday in the last scenes of the film, where the hero Morgunova filmed from the back replaced it with a backup.

Natalya Varley failed to voice her character Nina. "Captive" tells the voice of Hope Rumyantseva.

All the actors during filming like crazy trying to come up with funny tricks. And all true: he created the "Golden Fund" of champagne and for every invented the trick gave the author a bottle.

Originally the film was banned. Accidentally watched it Leonid Brezhnev and gave permission for the show.

A song about bears takes Aida Vedischeva.

The film was shot in Crimea (that can be seen, for example, the Crimean numbers on the machines), in Alushta, Demerdzhi vicinity, in the area of Massandra and AI-Petri and the Caucasus, in Krasnaya Polyana (an involuntary swim in a mountain stream).

Originally the film was to consist of 2 stories: the first "prisoner of the Caucasus", the second "Snow man and others" in which Bigfoot claims to the Trinity in the face of a Coward, Bobby and Experienced to throw off the scent the police.

Is in attendance 4-th place among domestic films in the history of Soviet film distribution.

The episode where the heroine Natalia Varley had a few minutes, contagious laugh, could not. Then Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov while shooting suddenly lifted her shirt and began scratching bellies, while making hilarious faces. The brace was removed without a hitch.

Natalya Varley has had to learn to drive a car and perform challenging stunts.

And at the end of the filming almost had to be redubbed half of the film. Party Secretary of the "Mosfilm" bore the name Saakov. And the film was a comrade Saakhov. Real Saakov felt that the appearance in the film Saahova — concealed mockery. And ordered the name to be replaced. The situation was saved by Nikulin. He reached the Minister of culture of the USSR Ekaterina Furtseva and complained that at the whim of a single person have to spend huge public money. Furtseva solved the problem with one call to the Studio: "Stop this idiocy!"

Old tree walnut under Demerdzhi, on which sat a hero Nikulina and threw the nuts, after the premiere of the film became a landmark of Crimea, and was called "the Nikulinskiy Nut". This tree is located near the southern slope of mount Demerji, near the "Valley of Ghosts".

Originally, the word "Song about bears" were these: "somewhere on a white ice floe, where it's always cold, the bears scratch their backs on the earth's axis". However, at the insistence of the artistic Council (the"do they have fleas?") the word was replaced with "somewhere in the world,... bears RUB their bodies against...".

In the song "If I were a Sultan" was originally another verse ("If all three wives I poured hundreds (option — let me wife every one hundred), for a total of three hundred grams — it's something...", but in the movie he didn't enter. Full version episode song with this couplet was shown on television in "Blue light" in 1966, part of the "Tales of Russian forests."

In the scene with a beer teetotaler George Vicino had to drink a whole mug of real beer. First Vitsin refused the beer and demanded an infusion of rose hips, but the hips in the shot looked unconvincing due to the lack of a cap of foam.

The car, which went to Trinity Coward, Bobby and Experienced — "Adler Trumpf", it was produced in Germany from 1932 to 1939, had front-wheel drive and engine capacity of 1.6 liter capacity of 48 HP Machine which starred in the film, was the property of Yuri Nikulin, and by the time the film was substantially reworked: all the units on it have been installed from the "Moskvich-407" (in the final chase on the wheel cap of the car you can see the inscription "PCA").

The car had a chauffeur Edward, is a pre-war chassis with a hand-filled body, resembling in appearance the ambulance GAS-55, the beginning of production of which is still in the pre-war period (1938-1945 years of release). In the period when the movie was made, such cars seen on the streets of Soviet cities was almost impossible.

The car, which at the end of the film leaves the heroine Natalia Varley — rare, experimental minibus "Start", is unique in its fiberglass body. In all there were about 100 pieces, to our time in General condition came units — largely this is due to a specific material body.

Yuri Nikulin and Yevgeny Morgunov believed much in the script taut and on this basis, initially refused to participate in the filming. However, the film's Director, Leonid Gaidai, managed to convince them, promising together to remake the script in the direction of improvement.

For the role of Nina for a long time could not find a suitable actress had to spend more than 500 photo tests. In the end the choice stopped on Natalya Varley.

In the process of developing the script was repeatedly changed by censorship. So, I had to modify the phrase of a Coward, "long live the Soviet court, the most humane court in the world!" "long live our court, the most humane court in the world!" since the first version was considered a mockery of the Soviet court.

The Phrase Nikulin "Bambarbiya! Kergudu!" used Yuri Stoyanov and Ilya Oleynikov in 1992 for the title of his comic series "Kergudu" prototype program "Town".

To film a "vaccination" Nikulin suggested stabbing a Seasoned circus supersprite ("Janet"). Of course, it is not stuck in a soft spot Morgunova. The actor was laid with a pillow between your legs. Despite all precautions, Eugene A. initially did not want to risk it, but then gave up: "Colitis, to hell with you... But there all there, and if that..." Everything went perfectly: Alexander Demyanenko was easy on the hand and didn't miss, making seven takes!

Focus by turning the head Vitsin one hundred eighty degrees removed in several stages. First: Vitsin, dropping his cap on the face, wiggles her fingers, clasped in front of the camera, stops. Second: Vitsin puts the jacket on backwards, hat on face, fingers moving camera shoots, stops. And these frames are "breaking" another piece where you removed the head Georgy Mikhailovich: first, under the cap, and then when it move upwards.

Censorship is rejected and the episode when Frunzik Mkrtchyan on cue, "wife", they say, how could you steal a girl answers: "And in the neighbouring district of the groom stole a party member!". The solution was found Nikulin: "it's All in the accent.. Let me tell him". In the mouth of a Dunce, splevyval watermelon seeds, the phrase sounded so stupid, he didn't leave the shadows so not even a party member. Immediately all became clear: the Goonies is a liar, and no truth in his words.

In the stage of bargaining in the office Saahova, the hero Mkrtchyan says the phrase — "But you're not getting a goat!". In this phrase the word "receive" was voiced by a different actor.

At first, for the episode in which Shura in a sleeping bag falls in mountain stream, and Nina rushes to save him, I asked a girl out a stunt, but she unexpectedly began to sink. It turned out the girl wanted so badly to be in a movie and lied, I can swim. Natalya Varley did it all by myself.

The moment when Nina and Shura on the Bank shaking from the cold, that wasn't water really was icy cold. And to not ill after screaming "Stop!" a couple drink pure alcohol.

The Caax name for the hero of Vladimir Etush was changed almost before the shooting. In the script the character's name is Ochakov, which indirectly indicate at least two things: 1) the phrase uncle Gabriel in the scene of the conversation with Nina ("Or will be out with friend's wife SAI... Ah, what the groom!" (in the original", Or will a friend's wife Oh... Oh, what the groom!"))2) 17 minutes of the film shows a sign on the door of the Cabinet "the Head of a ... comrade. Caax B. G", and it is clear that the word "Caax" written on the plate is glued on top of paper (or added to the Assembly), and the initials "B. G." was on the plate originally. However, the Ministry of culture was high nomenklatura with the last name Ohoho, demanded immediately change the name of the villain. But the name Caax also demanded to change, and for the same reason — this time in the party organization of "Mosfilm" there was a big official name Saakov. Yuri Nikulin accidentally told it to the Minister of culture, Ekaterina Alekseevna Furtseva, she was angry: "And if he was named Ivanov? We in the Ministry of culture — 180 Ivanov! What now? A fool cannot be called Ivanov? Leave as is!".

Despite the title of the film and created film images, the film itself was shot not in the Caucasus and in the Crimea, the main location: city center, Alushta is the valley of Ghosts at the foot of Demerdzhi. In addition, in the film there are scenes shot in the city of Simferopol (the mental hospital), on top of AI-Petri (stopped Shurik car with Nina) and the Caucasus, in the Adler district of Sochi in the Mzymta river (mountain river, where Nina saves the Shura, and the gap from the window of the room of Nina).

Oreshina, which Nikulin rushed unripe walnut ("Walnut Nikulin") and a large rectangular stone from another movie Gaidai "Sportloto-82", which bypasses San Sanych, are at a distance of few meters from each other.

Due to the fact that until the beginning of the career of the actress Natalia Varley worked in a circus kanatohodka, she was struggling with the stunt scenes. However, in her case the problem was the gaming scene due to the lack of acting skills. In the case Saahova was a difference in views on the image of the character between Leonid Gaidai, who played the part Saahova Vladimir Etush. If Etush perceived your character is always serious, in particular, do not understand how he could reject him and pour wine, Gaidai wanted to make a grotesque image.

During a meeting in the house of Gabriel after a replica of a Coward "You give unrealistic plans!" Picks up the dunce — "... voluntarism!", that is followed by an angry rebuke from Gabriel: "In my home language!". The fact that one of the reasons for Khrushchev's removal, which happened the year before, was the accusation of voluntarism, and this word was one of the main political curses of the time. The fact that the replica was not removed from the film after watching it with Brezhnev, may indicate that a joke he liked.

In the stage performance of the song "If I were a Sultan..." in the country Saahova shown combined teleradiotherapy "Crystal-104". It unites in a common housing a flat screen TV of 53 cm diagonal, all-wave radio high-class electromyographical and a tape recorder. Released these machines, Moscow television plant in 1958-1959 very small series (several hundred pieces).