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The film repeatedly sounds the song of Mystery Man of the British group The Shadows, in the arrangement VIA "Singing guitar".

Inna Churikova and Gleb Panfilov, after the success of their first overall picture was going to undertake the adaptation of the history of the French national heroine. Its role it was to receive and Mikhail Kononov. Before the incarnation, the idea never made it — had not received the approval of the cinematic Soviet leadership. In the end had to remove the picture on the modern theme with indirectly told "film in film".

The magazine "Soviet screen" called She the best actress of the year. And in 1971 at the 32nd Venice film festival Gleb Panfilov received the "Silver lion", Inna Churikova gold.

During the filming of a lot of things have been improvised, for example, the story of Baba-Yaga, when in the makeup room comes Director. The whole scene was written in Pitsunda on the porch of the Tavern, in the house which then removed the makeup room.

The film was shot in Murom. The heroine ina chourikova walked it in Murom streets and squares and went dancing in the local Park of a name of V. I. Lenin. However, in the ribbon, the city is referred to Rechensky.

Local residents actively participated in the extras. One Muromets was even entrusted to welcome in the frame Arcadia — hero Leonid Kuravlev and another young resident of the city to "rent" the bike is the hero of Mikhail Kononov.

Episodes with Joan of Arc was filmed near Murom, in the village of Spas-Sedino. Decorators built a scenery of a medieval castle, where they were staged scenes of the interrogation of Joan inquisitors, and the "marching" scenes were shot in surrounding fields and coppices, which may well have gone for the landscapes of Normandy.

In 1970, the film-makers became the laureates of the Leningrad Komsomol. In 1971 at the Venice film festival Gleb Panfilov won the "Silver lion of St. Mark" for direction, Inna Churikova was awarded the "Golden lion of St. Mark". The film, Gleb Panfilov, Gennady Beglov and Yuri Klepikov was awarded honorary diplomas at the international film festival in new York, and the jury of the festival in Adelaide (Australia) in 1972 was awarded the prize of "southern cross" Inna Churikova.

Mikhail Kononov played not only the Pasha's neighbor in the communal Pavlik, in the episode of the execution of Joan of Arc it for a few seconds appears on the screen in the form of a jester.

Some roles in the film are played by non-professional actors. So, Director, Ignatieff played the writer Yuri Klepikov, the second Director — the second film's Director, Gennady Beglov, operator – operator Dmitry Dolinin, assistant Director Stepan Vitalyevich – doctor of Vyacheslav Vasiliev. In the crowd scenes were filmed by local residents.

Pasha and Arkady sing (without words) song called Come prima (the words of Mario Panzeri, music Dipaola Vincenzo and Sandro Taccani).

In the scene in which Pasha went to the dance, when the music ended, Arkady asks the musicians to play "Gypsy". In fact, it is the song Man of Mystery the Shadows.

Preserved the words of the great Faina Ranevskaya about the game in "Early" Inna Churikova: "Inna Churikova is interesting to me in its uniqueness. It is extremely expressive. I believe every movement, look. Believe her eyes. I will never forget how she was treated to his favorite: "Eat bird," as kept looking at him. And was done beautiful! Talent makes a person beautiful."