Plot Summary

The film is based on the play by L. Slavin and has long been under censorship ban. Only in the Soviet cinema eccentric Comedy in the style of "buff", which tells about the many-sided life of Odessa occupied by allied troops.

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The film is based on the eponymous play by Lev Slavin.

Actors Gennady Poloka was not invited: "volunteers" are ready to take part in the experiment come Yuri Tolubeev, Yefim Kopelyan and many others. The first one came Vsevolod Abdulov

The initiators of the film adaptation of the play by L. Slavin, was timed the film for the 50th anniversary of the October revolution, but the work was delayed, and it was completed only in June 1968.

The film is stylized as a theatrical presentation beginning of 1920-ies, including productions of Vsevolod Meyerhold, which resembles a poster stand at the beginning, was filmed under the working title "Intervention", but in the process of installation was renamed "the Greatness and the fall of the house of Xidias", under this name by G. Poloka took the film to the Artistic Council of the Studio "Lenfilm". However, in November 1968 the Chairman of the state Committee for cinematography A. V. Romanov imposed a ban. Trying to save the film, the crew sent a letter to Brezhnev

Almost all of the songs for the film written by Vladimir Vysotsky.

Song Sanka ("the sea, the port...") — in the film not included "Thunder" — Vysotsky belong only to stanzas 2 and 4. On one of the typewritten versions of the song next to stanzas 1 and 3 note: "national"

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