Мертвый сезон

The script was written by the famous screenwriter, film Director, Vladimir Vainshtok, in collaboration with Alexander Stepanovym. Weinstock, who shot even before the great Patriotic war, the famous film "Children of captain Grant", later took the pseudonym — Vladimir, which was created a number of scenarios and a joint Soviet-Cuban painting "the headless Horseman". The materials for the film he received in the KGB...

In the film, the prototype of the hero, scout Ladeinikov is Conan Young. He worked under the alias Gordon Lonsdale, from which the authors created for Ladeinikov two — Lengsfeld and Scandal. However, the real story of Konan Young is not very similar to "exposing the Nazi." However, the hero himself, and some of the scenes correspond to the historical truth, for example, the famous scene of the exchange agents. She was the first, and at one suburban highway. In this scene Ladeinikov change to a Colonel Nichols.

The role of Colonel Nichols played great Lithuanian actor Laimonas noreika the who also starred in the film "Nobody wanted to die". In the words of Donatas Banionis, in a short time it became the subject of various jokes on "as one Lithuanian to another changed".

In the film Conan Young acts as Advisor under the pseudonym Konstantin Panfilov.

The name of Konon Young at the time, was not mentioned. So the audience was presented to the other agent, whose name was already released previously. Is Rudolf Abel, the exposure in the United States and exchanged for pilot Francis Gary powers. The speech of Abel at the beginning of the film with a brief commentary gave the audience the wrong reason to consider it the prototype of Ladeinikov. However, perhaps the authors took something from Abel.

The role Ladeinikov auditioned Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Oleg vidov, which Weinstock then gave the main role in his "headless Horseman" and other famous actors with the "heroic-romantic" appearance. Then the stereotype inherent in the "secret agent", demanded just that. Savva Kulish, the film's Director, seen, however, of another character: his choice fell on Donatas Banionis. This caused a strong objection both to the writers and Director for the movie. Appearance Lithuanian actor, in their opinion, did not match the theme of the film. However, this is not the biggest gap — Banionis remembers how deep disappointment met him in Odessa, the Director Ryazanov and screenwriter Emil Braginsky when he arrived for the shooting of the episode in the film "Beware of the car". But there it was just about the pastor.

With great difficulty, with the participation of Mikhail Romm, who studied Savva Kulish, Banionis was approved. But opponents Banionis was able to suspend him. Already it took the intervention of the Konon Young to everything was back to normal. To argue with the institution where he worked, no one dared. Subsequent events showed that Savva Kulish was right.

It's hard to say what would be in this movie did actor "heroic" plan. Painting chamber, about the ideological component and can not speak. The success of the film was provided with a good script and directing, the play of Donatas Banionis and Rolan Bykov in the successful participation of Vladimir Ehrenberg in the role of Hass, Yuri Arveta in the role of Professor O'reilly and other actors. While the utter lack of information in this field has also fueled the interest of the audience. In our days planned sequel film, but the death of Rolan Bykov, followed Savva Kulish completely undermined this possibility.

The film was shot on a film Studio "Lenfilm" with extensive participation of Baltic actors, most of whom are Estonians. This is nothing strange, since the nature was filmed in Estonia. All Baltic actors voiced on "Lenfilm" such actors as Alexander Demyanenko, who is also the permanent backup Donatas Banionis, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, which is a backup of Leonhard Mersina, Yefim Kopelyan, which is a backup of ants Eskola, Paul Kashlakov, which is a stand-Mairi, Routh and many others.