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In the film all the difficult stunts performed understudy for Love Orlov. Vera Buslaeva flew out of a cannon into the sky, and Alexander Vorontsov did for actress acrobatics under the dome.

For the film was written "Song of the Motherland", which has practically become the unofficial anthem of the Soviet Union. Poems "Broad is my native land..." wrote the poet Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, music to them was written by Isaak Dunayevsky. Moreover, the composer has written 36 music options, and only the last was approved by the Director.

Ride "Man Shell" built in 1933 by the designer Simon Rechitsa: gun weighed 8 tons, the barrel length is 6 meters, the range of "projectile" 14 meters.

In 1937, the film won the Grand Prix at the Paris international exhibition, and in 1941 he received the Stalin prize.

The role of the son of Marion was played by a baby — Negro Jim Patterson is the son of a black radio host Lloyd Patterson and theater artist Vera Aralova. Lyubov Orlova became very attached to the boy and called him his son, not only in film but also in life. Jim graduated from the Leningrad higher naval school, became an officer. When perestroika began, went to the United States. His fate is unknown.

In one of the biggest pavilions Studio "Mosfilm" for filming was built a huge backdrop of the circus — the amphitheatre, the arena Lodge. This building is swallowed up twenty cars in the forest. Day and night amphitheater and the Lodge was full of "public". It was a doll. During filming, extras were put ahead, interspersed with the dolls and the audience when viewing the paintings create the impression of a huge living mass of.

Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov also starred in this film — if you look closely, you can see two men taking the Negro immediately after the Georgian — one full bald — Petrov, second, glasses — Ilf.

If you look carefully, you well see that during the shooting of the film on the red square was not red star, and double-headed eagles. So the film confirms that the double-headed eagle was replaced by the red stars after 1936.

The film was repeatedly edited: in the 50-ies touch up the final shots during the performance of "Song of the Motherland", when the "restoration" of paintings in the late 60-ies of the final shots has been substantially reworked, and the overall picture was dubbed. For example, the role of Sergei Stolyarov has pereslushal his son, Kirill Stolyarov, the role of Vladimir Volodin was pereslushal Ivan Ryzhov, Lyubov Orlova was pereozvuchivat its role itself. The "Stalinist" version of the picture shown on Russian television in the early 90-ies, under the heading "Maybe?".

From the picture in the beginning of 1953, was removed from the verse of the lullaby in Yiddish, which was sung by Solomon Mikhoels, and the scenes with his participation. After Stalin's death he was returned to painting.