Operation s or adventures of poets scenario. Scenario of the play "New Year's Captive or Shurik's New Adventures"

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Municipal budgetary educational institution

average comprehensive school № 104

Voroshilovsky district of the city of Rostov-on-Don

Scenario of the play "New Year's Captive"

or the new adventures of Shurik"

prepared by Smirnova Natalya Aleksandrovna,

teacher of Russian language and literature

Rostov-on-Don

2012

p/n

SCENE 1

Music No. 1: "March of the Trinity".

SCENE 2

Music No. 2: "Market".

STORYTELLER.

In some kingdom

In a magical state

Lived, did not grieve,

Friends with bunnies

Ded Moroz and Snegurochka,

Finally, just beautiful!

Music No. 2: "Market".

The storyteller leaves.

Ded Moroz and Snegurochka.

SANTA CLAUS. Snow Maiden, do you know whose year is approaching?

SNOW MAIDEN. Of course I know, grandpa! Year of the HARE!

SANTA CLAUS. That's right, granddaughter! .. Year of the HARE! This animal is interesting.

SNOW MAIDEN. And our bunnies, grandfather, are not just interesting, but never seen before.

SANTA CLAUS. Why unseen?

SNOW MAIDEN. Because they, grandfather, can walk on their hind legs, a lot more than usual. But most importantly, they understand human speech and know how to talk. Ah... Here they are.

Music number 3: "Snowflake".

SANTA CLAUS. What cute animals!

SNOW MAIDEN. So, bunnies, let's answer: what are you a symbol of in the coming year?

BUNNY. In the coming year, we are a symbol of love!

BUNNY. Worldly wisdom!

BUNNY. Speed and Agility!

SANTA CLAUS. Granddaughter, and your bunnies, besides talking, can do anything else?

SNOW MAIDEN. Of course, grandfather. They are magical forest preparing for the New Year.

SANTA CLAUS. What good fellows!

SNOW MAIDEN.

So, bunnies, let's answer:

Spruce silvered?

Are the trees covered in frost?

BUNNS. Silvered…

BUNNS. Dressed…

SNOW MAIDEN.

Are bears hidden in dens?

Have the nests been insulated for the birds?

BUNNS. Sheltered…

BUNNS. Insulated…

SANTA CLAUS. What friendly bunnies!

SNOW MAIDEN. Grandpa, they became even friendlier when they learned one terrible story about one proud bird.

SANTA CLAUS. What kind of story?

SNOW MAIDEN ( bunny). Tell me, oblique, about the proud bird!

BUNNY. When the whole flock flew south for the winter, ONE small but proud bird said: “Personally, I will fly right into the sun!”. And she began to rise higher and higher, but very soon she burned her wings and fell to the very bottom of the deepest gorge!

SANTA CLAUS. Yes! Very instructive story, bunnies. None of you, no matter how high you “fly”, should not break away from the team!

One bunny is crying bitterly.

SNOW MAIDEN. What happened? What, dear?

BUNNY ( whimpering). Bird...sorry...

SANTA CLAUS. Don't cry dear! A small but proud bird cannot be returned.

SNOW MAIDEN. Unfortunately, no return.

SANTA CLAUS. To such sad stories did not happen in our team, we must take care of each other, especially the Snow Maiden.

Music No. 4: "Summer is gone."

Santa Claus is leaving. Then there are bunnies.

Snow Maiden.

Saakhov and Lelik are heading towards the girl.

Saakhov looks at the Snow Maiden from head to toe.

SAAHOV. Lelik, tell me: who is this?! BUT?!

LYOLIK. Snow Maiden.

SAAHOV. Just beautiful, you know!

LYOLIK. She is also a boss, a student, a Komsomol member, an athlete!

SAAHOV. Student, Komsomol member, sportswoman...

LYOLIK. I see you like her.

SAAHOV. Listen, I really liked it! Just a beauty!!!

LYOLIK. Chief, she's a great candidate for your wife. Yes, and Santa Claus will come in handy! There will always be gifts under the tree! Not family life, but a complete holiday.

SAAHOV. Lyolik seems to be under New Year The Snow Maiden is always kidnapped by some evil forces!

LYOLIK. This is exactly what happens on New Year's Eve, Comrade Saakhov!

SAAHOV. Come on, dear comrade Lelik, let's change this bad tradition.

LYOLIK. How?

SAAHOV. The Snow Maiden will marry me, and New Year's Eve abductions will stop, since I will protect her. Nobody dares to steal Comrade Saakhov's wife!

LYOLIK. This is not easy: she is the granddaughter of Santa Claus.

SAAHOV. I will make any sacrifice and agree to all your conditions!

LYOLIK. Any means any. I'm 25 rams for the trouble!

SAAHOV. Of course, I highly appreciate your work, but there is a limit to everything ... Yes?! .. 18!

LYOLIK. Have a conscience! You take as your wife the Snow Maiden - a student, a Komsomol member, an athlete, a beauty! And for all this I ask 25 rams! It's even funny to haggle!

SAAHOV. Apo… you talk apolitically! You talk apolitical! I swear! Honestly! Do not understand political situation. You see life only from the window of my personal car! I swear! Honestly! 25 sheep at a time when our region did not fully pay off the state for wool and meat!

LYOLIK. And you do not confuse your personal wool with the state!

Saakhov looks sternly at Lelik.

SAAHOV. And I was put here, comrade Lyolik, in order to observe the state interests. In general, yes. Twenty sheep...

LYOLIK. 25!

SAAHOV. Twenty, twenty ... Rosenlev refrigerator.

LYOLIK. What?

SAAHOV. Finnish, good... Certificate of Merit.

LYOLIK. And a free pass...

SAAHOV. To Siberia!

LYOLIK. OK then.

SAAHOV. Good.

They hit on the hands.

LYOLIK. So yes. The groom agrees. Me too. ( Doubting.) What about the bride?

SAAHOV. Yes, we still educate our youth badly, very badly. Surprisingly frivolous attitude to marriage.

LYOLIK. And who even asks the bride? Head bag and that's it!

SAAHOV. Yes! That's right! .. Very the right decision. But I personally won't have anything to do with it.

LYOLIK. Well no! Don't worry. It will be done by complete strangers.

SAAHOV. And… not from our area.

LYOLIK. Well! Of course!

Music No. 5: "In a restaurant."

Saakhov and Lyolik in good mood leave.

SCENE 3

Loud - quieter.

STORYTELLER.

How little, how much time has passed,

I do not know, but I know:

Departed Coward, Dunce, Experienced

Complete Lelik's task in secret.

They want to deceive the Snow Maiden,

Catch her with a cunning bait!

The girl has no idea

Smiling politely at passers-by...

Music No. 6: "On the dance floor."

Loudly.

The storyteller leaves.

Lelik and the trinity. Then - the Snow Maiden.

COWARD. Hello, Snow Maiden.

SNOW MAIDEN ( smiling). Hello. ( Silence.) I'm listening to you.

BALBES. Bambarbia! ( Smiling.) Kirgud.

SNOW MAIDEN ( Not understanding). What did he say?

LYOLIK. He says: "We did not come here by chance, we came secretly to negotiate with you."

EXPERIENCED. Listen, Snow Maiden! You are now called to act in films, in Hollywood!

SNOW MAIDEN. It's too early for me to think about it.

LYOLIK. As my boss says, it's not too early for anyone to think about it, and it's never too late, by the way!

COWARD. Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movie!

LYOLIK ( audience, laughing). Yeah, to Saakhov down the aisle!

BALBES. Johnny Depp will be the main partner, and Spielberg ... himself ... how is he?

SNOW MAIDEN. Producer?

BALBES. Producer!

SNOW MAIDEN. I agree!

LYOLIK ( happily). This is great! Wonderful!

COWARD. However, film screenings need to be filmed. First - a profile ... ( Removes.)

BALBES. Then - full face ... ( Removes.)

LYOLIK. Well... Ready... Time!

Music No. 7: "Running in the opposite direction."

Lyolik and the trinity kidnap the Snow Maiden.

SCENE 4

Music No. 8: "Meeting".

Loud - quieter.

STORYTELLER.

Snow Maiden was stolen

They put me in a car and disappeared

lured by deceit,

They were sentenced to a wedding with Saakhov.

Santa Claus turned gray

Ineum perked up.

Grieving, grieving

Trouble eats the heart:

New Year without the Snow Maiden will not come!!!

Santa Claus is waiting for help.

Bunnies gave a fly:

Shurik was called!

Everyone who saw him will confirm

God did not offend the young man with his mind.

The kidnappers did not know such details,

And then, maybe, they didn’t steal the Snow Maiden either.

Music No. 9: "Exams".

Loudly.

The storyteller leaves.

Shurik and bunnies.

SHURICK. So what do we have?

BUNNY. There is a kidnapping!

BUNNY. Insidious crime!

SHURICK. Who was stolen?

BUNNY. Snow Maiden!

SHURICK. Who stole? Who is the groom?

BUNNY. We sometimes learn this at a wedding.

SHURICK. There will be no wedding... I did not steal the Snow Maiden, but I will return her!

BUNNY. How to save the Snow Maiden, Shurik?

SHURICK. Courage, courage and once again courage in the fight against kidnappers, scoundrels, insignificant, immoral types.

BUNNY. I'm not a coward, but I'm afraid.

SHURICK ( thinking). So here's what I'll tell you: only brave hares can rescue a girl.

BUNNS. How can we become braver?

SHURICK. The one who mows the tryn-grass three times a year at the most terrible hour will become brave!

BUNNS. Where does this herb grow?

SHURICK.

In the dark blue forest

Where aspens tremble

Where from oaks-sorcerers

Leaves fly.

BUNNY. What a fear!

BUNNY. How scary!

BUNNY. Very scary!

BUNNY. I'm not a coward, but I'm afraid!

SHURICK. If you want to help the Snow Maiden, you MUST stand in the dark blue forest at the most terrible hour!

Shurik leaves.

BUNNY. Bunnies! Help the Snow Maiden! Let's all go to this scary forest mow tryn-grass!

Music number 10: "Song about hares."

Bunny dance.

SCENE 5

Music No. 11: "Loneliness".

STORYTELLER.

Where is Lady New Year?

Lady ice fairy tale?

Lives in captivity

Here is the clue!

Hollywood did not become fate:

They ask her to be a WIFE.

That's why she's so bad!

That's why she hurts so much!

But the Snow Maiden does not cry,

Nobody believes anymore.

So what?!.

It hurts anyway:

For her, loneliness is boredom!

For her, loneliness is flour!

Music No. 12: "Solitude" (Chorus)

The storyteller leaves.

Snow Maiden. Then - Lelik, Saakhov, Trinity.

LYOLIK. Snow Maiden, you can not eat, you can not drink, you can be silent. It won't help you anyway! The best groom in the area offers his hand and heart ... You have no conscience! You spit on our offer. Silly! You have no other choice. ( Looks at the girl.) You mean to say that you will be looked for? Correctly! They will turn to me, and I will say: “She left the institute, got married and left.” So here's what I'll tell you: either you marry Comrade Saakhov, or you won't leave here at all! Answer something! See ( pointing to FROM aahova): the person is waiting.

SNOW MAIDEN. I will not talk to anyone except the prosecutor and I will go on a hunger strike!

The Snow Maiden leaves.

LYOLIK ( Saakhov). Still young, capricious!

SAAHOV. In general, yes. There are only two ways out of this house: either I take her to the registry office, or she takes me to the prosecutor.

LYOLIK. No need.

SAAHOV. I don't want to... Nothing! In a day she will be hungry, in a week she will be even more sad, and in a month she will become smart. Nothing! Will wait.

LYOLIK. Will wait.

SAAHOV. Will wait.

Saahov leaves.

LYOLIK ( referring to the trinity). Remember: you must finally justify the high trust placed in you. And you answer for the Snow Maiden with your head!

TRINITY ( chorus). We will try, dear comrade Lelik.

Music No. 13: "Promenade".

Lelik leaves.

The trinity goes for the Snow Maiden.

The Snow Maiden is brought in, but she again leaves them.

EXPERIENCED. This Snow Maiden is very capricious.

COWARD. There is no sweetness with her!

BALBES. Still young, capricious!

EXPERIENCED. But we are responsible for it with our heads! We must protect, feed, water.

COWARD. But she doesn't want to eat anything.

BALBES. We will not report this to the authorities. We will make a correct report for Comrade Saakhov. ( Coward.) Sit down. Write from a new line: "Lunch". Emphasize: "I refused the soup."

COWARD. "Refused."

BALBES. In brackets: "Soup kharcho".

COWARD. "Kharcho".

COWARD. "Into the abyss."

BALBES. Now the wine: "I broke two bottles."

COWARD. Three! We have three under the table.

BALBES. Write three.

COWARD. Three.

BALBES. So. Now fruits: "Oranges".

COWARD. "Oranges".

EXPERIENCED. Stop messing with paper! Let's better think about how to cheer up the Snow Maiden, otherwise she will completely wither from melancholy and loneliness. We will be guilty.

BALBES. Let's sing our favorite song for her.

EXPERIENCED. And what? Maybe a favorite too.

BALBES. We just can't do it alone!

COWARD. We can do it if the Eastern girls help us!

Music No. 14: "If I were a Sultan."

The girls invite the Snow Maiden.

East Dance trinity and girls.

The Snow Maiden leaves imperceptibly at the end of the dance.

SCENE 6

Music No. 15: "Exit Ambassador".

Bunnies, Shurik appear in white gauze bandages.

Experienced, Dunce and Coward look at them with surprise.

EXPERIENCED. Who are you to?

SHURICK. Sanitary epidemiological station. There is an epidemic in the area. General survey of the population. "Swine flu". Mandatory ruling.

BALBES. Damn it!.. Take off your shirt.

SHURICK. Just a shirt is not necessary. Come in for an examination.

COWARD. And is it not painful?

SHURICK. Come to my assistants.

Trinity fit. The examination is carried out by bunnies-doctors.

SHURICK. Is there no one else in the house?

TRINITY. Not! Not!

COWARD. Nobody!

SHURICK. Then my assistants will give you a preventive talk about "swine flu". Have a seat.

The trio sit down.

BUNNY. "Swine flu" is the conventional name for a disease in humans and animals caused by strains of the influenza virus. The strains associated with outbreaks of "swine flu" have been found among influenza viruses serotype C and subtypes serotype A.

BUNNY. The swine flu virus is transmitted both through direct contact with infected organisms and through airborne droplets.

BUNNY. The main symptoms are the same as the usual flu symptoms.

BUNNY. Vaccinations are given to prevent swine flu.

SHURICK. "Swine flu" especially rapidly develops in the body ...

BALBES. In short, Sklikhosovsky!

COWARD. You are not interested - do not interfere! Please move on.

SHURICK. ... develops especially rapidly in an organism weakened by nicotine, alcohol and ...

COWARD. ... excesses are bad.

BUNNY. Thus, in order to avoid the disease "swine flu", it is necessary to do preventive vaccinations in a timely manner and conduct healthy lifestyle life!

SHURICK. Is there really no one else in the house besides you?

TRINITY. Not! Not!

COWARD. Nobody!

SHURICK. If “swine flu” is not detected in time, then, as they say, "mome" nto mo "re"!

COWARD. Instantly...

BALBES. …in the sea!

SHURICK. It's clear?

BALBES. It's clear.

COWARD. BUT! It's clear.

SHURICK. From December 1 to December 31, 2010, our clinic is running a promotion: three vaccinations for the price of one!

EXPERIENCED. Tempting offer! We agree to go for vaccinations right now! And then "mome" nto mo "re"!

COWARD. Instantly...

BALBES. …in the sea!

Music No. 16: "Final Overture".

Shurik skips the whole trinity in turn and goes after her.

Bunny dance.

SCENE 7

Music No. 17: "Partners".

Saakhov and Lyolik.

LYOLIK. Chief, everything is gone, everything is gone: the Snow Maiden ran away, my people disappeared!!! Everything is lost!!!

SAAHOV ( cap closes the mouth of Lelik, he bites his finger). If a person is an idiot, then this is for a long time!

LYOLIK. Chief, I'll fix it!

SAAHOV. If you do not fix it, you will live on one salary! And I'm kind of tired. I'll probably take a bath, have a cup of coffee. But you still think about how to fix the situation. Otherwise, we will have a bath, and coffee, and “kakava” with tea!

LYOLIK. I never expected this to happen. I should probably...

SAAHOV. No need!

LYOLIK. Now I have a suggestion: what if...

SAAHOV. Not worth it!

LYOLIK. It's clear! Then maybe you need...

SAAHOV. No need!

LYOLIK. It's clear. Allow at least...

SAAHOV. I do not allow ... Because of you, I have to tear my claws. Let's change the point. Relocate! Like this!

Knock on the door.

SAAHOV. Who is here?

Music No. 18: "The January blizzard is ringing ...".

Shurik, Snegurochka and Santa Claus come in.

SAAHOV ( frightened). H-hello. So did not expect your arrival! Such a surprise for me!

LYOLIK. Before the New Year, Comrade Saakhov, Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden always come, make riddles, give gifts ...

SHURICK. We have already solved your riddles. And the judgment over you will be our gift!

SAAHOV. Why are you going to judge us?

SANTA CLAUS. You ordered my granddaughter to be kidnapped, hid her, made her suffer!

SNOW MAIDEN. Wanted to marry me.

SAAHOV. You have no right to judge us! You will be responsible for it!

SHURICK. We will not be responsible for your filthy skins.

SAAHOV. I'm ready to admit my mistakes!

LYOLIK. I also acted recklessly! I repent: I temporarily acted as the head of the kidnappers of the Snow Maiden by order of Comrade Saakhov!

SAAHOV. Well, forgive us!!!

SANTA CLAUS. Snow Maiden! Will we forgive them?

SNOW MAIDEN. The one who prevented us from preparing for the New Year, let him help us!

SHURICK. Uh… no… there is no need to rush to conclusions… It is important to return to society complete people…

SANTA CLAUS. Complete means complete! Snegurochka, where do they correct kidnappers, parasites, hooligans?

SNOW MAIDEN. On the island of Bad Luck in the ocean.

SANTA CLAUS. Comrade Shurik, deliver these criminals to Bad Luck Island! Yes! And take the infamous trinity there, vaccinated against swine behavior!

SNOW MAIDEN. Comrade Shurik, they have to work for 15 days at a sand pit, at street cleaning, at a cement plant. For Comrade Saakhov - a separate order for the construction of a residential building under your leadership.

SHURICK. I am sure, Comrade Saakhov, that we will pass these fifteen days in an atmosphere of friendship and mutual understanding. Follow me, please!

Music No. 19: "The Island of Bad Luck."

Shurik takes Saakhov and Lyolik and takes them away.

Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden leave.

SCENE 8

Music No. 2: "Market".

STORYTELLER.

This is the story that happened

In some kingdom

In a magical state

Where they lived, were, did not grieve,

Friends with bunnies

Ded Moroz and Snegurochka,

Student, Komsomol member, athlete,

Finally, just beautiful!

Music No. 20: "Overture".

Exit artists: Storyteller, Saakhov and Lyolik, Shurik, Coward, Dunce, Experienced, oriental girls, bunnies, Santa Claus and Snow Maiden.

SCENE 9

Music No. 21: "New Year" ( StekloVata).

Santa Claus, Snow Maiden and bunnies.

SANTA CLAUS.

When the snow flies over the gate

And the frost cracks all around

He comes to every city

He comes to every home.

SNOW MAIDEN.

FROM colorful balls

And cheerful tinsel

Long-awaited gifts

With noisy childish play!

BUNNY.

Who's coming, who's coming?

Winter holiday New Year!

swift and careless,

Endless New Year!

BUNNY.

Along with skis, skates,

Round dance here and there

And sparklers

Under fireworks!

(We do fireworks.)

BUNNY.

A tree comes to every house

And ruddy Santa Claus!

And, looking into the crack,

We are waiting for an answer to the question!

BUNNY.

Who's coming, who's coming?

Winter holiday New Year!

swift and careless,

Endless New Year!

SANTA CLAUS.

Our holiday turned out to be a success,

Both children and adults liked it.

May you have a lot of good!

And it's time for us to leave you.

Our holiday ends

Room 305 is closed.

SNOW MAIDEN.

In these moments of our farewell

To all our dear and dear friends

We are speaking:

"Goodbye,

Before new meetings,

We wish you happiness!

Music No. 22: "New Year" ( StekloVata).

Final release of the artists.

Used materials

Film comedies by L. Gaidai: "Operation" Y "and other adventures of Shurik", "Prisoner of the Caucasus", "Diamond Hand", "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Profession".

Plan:

1 Process of creation
- 1.1 Preparing for filming
- 1.2 Filming
2 Novels
- 2.1 Partner
  - 2.1.1 Plot
  - 2.1.2 Cast
    - 2.1.2.1 Uncredited
- 2.2 Delusion
  - 2.2.1 Plot
  - 2.2.2 Cast
- 2.3 Operation Y
  - 2.3.1 Plot
  - 2.3.2 Cast
3 film crew

Introduction

"Operation" Y "and other adventures of Shurik"- Soviet comedy Feature Film, filmed in 1965 by director Leonid Gaidai. The picture had big success, was the leader of film distribution in the USSR in 1965. It was watched by 69.6 million viewers. In the same 1965, at the festival of short films in Krakow, the short story "Delusion" was awarded Grand Prize- "The Silver Dragon of Wawel". The plot of the film is composed of three short stories: "Partner", "Obsession" and "Operation Y". All three short stories are united by the figure of the main character - a funny and resilient student Shurik performed by Alexander Demyanenko, whose adventures were continued in the film "Prisoner of the Caucasus, or Shurik's New Adventures". “Operation Y” also involves the comic anti-hero rogues Trus, Dunce and Experienced from the short films by Leonid Gaidai “Dog Mongrel and unusual cross"And" Moonshine, with which he forms a trilogy.

1. Creation process

Start of production: May 19, 1964
Start of filming: July 27, 1964
End of filming: April 3, 1965
End of production: April 23, 1965
World Film Festival Premiere: August 16, 1965
The beginning of film distribution in the USSR: August 16, 1965

1.1. Preparing for filming

After the success of his previous film " Business people» director Leonid Gaidai decides to make a film based on original script on the modern theme. From a variety of options, he chooses a comedy script called "Fun Stories", written by two authors: Yakov Kostyukovsky and Maurice Slobodsky. The original version consisted of two short stories, the main character of which was student Vladik Arkov, a bespectacled intellectual who got into various comic situations and came out of them with honor. In the first short story, the student re-educated a gloomy and ignorant type, and in the second, Vladik got a job as a tutor and prepared the only son of his parents, the blockhead Ilyusha, for admission to the institute.
March 25, 1964 in the Second Creative Association of the film studio "Mosfilm" was approved literary script"Non-Serious Stories" and given the go-ahead to launch it into director's development. Leonid Gaidai, together with the authors of the script, begins its revision. As a result, the plot of the novels changed and acquired the basis familiar from the film. In the first short story (“The Partner”), Vladik re-educates the “fifteen-day parasite” at a construction site, in the second (“Spring Obsession”), he falls in love with the girl Lida during the examination session (Gaidai “peeped” this short story in the Polish magazine “Shpilki”). Since two short stories for feature film was not enough, it was decided to come up with a third. Gaidai decides to combine in it a new hero - Vladik - with the trinity "Coward, Dunce and Experienced". After a month of hard work, the short story “Operation Y” was born, in which Vladik had to expose the plunderers of socialist property.
From June 1, 1964, screen tests of actors for the main and episodic roles began. The most difficult was the search for the main character - student Vladik. Gaidai reviewed over a hundred candidates, including: Oleg Vidov, Vsevolod Abdulov, Vitaly Solomin, Yevgeny Petrosyan, Sergei Nikonenko, Yevgeny Zharikov, Gennady Korolkov, Ivan Bortnik, Valery Nosik and Alexander Zbruev. Negotiations were also held with Andrei Mironov. As a result, the artistic council of the studio settled on the candidacy of Valery Nosik, although the director himself had doubts. Having accidentally seen a photo of the young actor Alexander Demyanenko, Gaidai leaves for Leningrad on July 11 for personal negotiations. Both were pleased with each other. The actor later recalled:

When I read the script for Operation Y, I realized that the film was doomed to success. There was nothing like this in our cinema then.

Alexander Demyanenko

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Valery Nosik played a cameo role of a student in the exam in the film.
Not entirely satisfied with Leonid Gaidai and Mikhail Pugovkin, whom the artistic council recommended for the role of Tall Man in the first short story. As a result, Pugovkin played a foreman at a construction site.
After the films "Dog Mongrel and an unusual cross" and "Moonshiners" Gaidai stopped creative collaboration with Nikita Bogoslovsky. From the film "Operation" Y "and other adventures of Shurik" began a joint work with Alexander Zatsepin (then still a little-known composer). Subsequently, not a single famous film by Leonid Gaidai could do without the music and songs of this composer.

1.2. Filming a movie

The film was shot in Leningrad, in the pavilions of the Mosfilm film studio, in the Sviblovo area and in the Moscow State University area (Moscow), as well as in Odessa.
Many of the gags were invented during filming by the actors themselves. So, Yuri Nikulin came up with a scene where Shurik “wounds” his hero, Dunce, with a rapier and “blood” gushing from his chest - red wine. The scene with the teeth-clicking skeleton was Nikulin's improvisation.

2. Novels

2.1. Partner

2.1.1. Plot

It's raining. Shurik is waiting for the bus at the bus stop. He is so eager to help everyone get on the bus that he himself stays on the street, misses the first bus, the second, the third ... Finally, he is on the bus (ZIL-158V). On one of the seats of the bus, a tall boor (Alexey Smirnov) collapsed. He placed his bag of empty bottles on the seat next to him. Passengers make comments to him, because a pregnant woman is standing nearby, but the big man gets off with a cynical joke. Then Shurik goes to the trick: putting on sunglasses, he portrays a blind man, and the blind bully still gives way to the place previously occupied by bottles. The vacated place Shurik immediately gives way to a woman. Seeing that Shurik is not at all blind, the big man gets into a fight. As a result of the intervention of the police and conscious passengers of the bus, the hooligan was brought to the police and sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest.

Early morning. The police are distributing fifteen-day-olds - hooligans, parasites and alcoholics - to their jobs.

Foreman Pal Stepanych:
"- Parisian ... Our Lady"

The foreman of the facility, Pal Stepanych (Mikhail Pugovkin), tells the big man about the construction site in detail, giving a tour of the construction site. Tall Fedya notices Shurik. The foreman puts the big man to work in tandem with Shurik. Fedya is plotting revenge on Shurik - after all, it was because of him that he ended up in the police. Shurik is not without reason afraid of a partner. Initially, Fedya, seeing that Shurik dived into a hole in the wall, immediately fills the hole with a brick, trying to wall up the student. However, Shurik, apparently knowing the construction site well, simply came out the other way - the revenge plan did not work. Fedya in every possible way shirks from work and finally just goes to bed. The foreman, seeing this, tries to raise Fedya by force of persuasion and force him to work, but he does not succeed.

Fedya:
- Shurik, are you a member of the Komsomol? These are not our methods!

It's time for lunch. Hot meals were brought to the construction site for fifteen days workers. A stern policeman (Vladimir Basov) and a cook (Viktor Uralsky) brought Fedya a three-course meal: borscht for the first course, shish kebab for the second, and compote for the third. Fedya makes a cocktail out of compote, diluting it in half with vodka from a chekushka and drinks the cocktail through a straw. Shurik managed with yogurt and a loaf, while listening to Fedya's teaching “Who does not work, he eats! Learn student". Fedya goes to bed. Shurik cannot stand the boorish behavior of the hooligan and, after waiting for a moment, slaps the tightly folded newspaper with the heading "Hatred of Fascism" in the dozing Fedya's face. He jumps up, but Shurik shows him the fly he killed. Fedya calms down, even praises Shurik: "Well done!" Seeing wasps flying over Fedya, Shurik again repeats a series of blows with a newspaper. This time, they both understand that the need has finally come to sort it out. Fedya starts chasing Shurik around the construction site. The couple runs around all the floors, throwing various objects at each other, even using construction equipment (a bulldozer). In the end, Shurik hits Fedya in the face with a lime test. Fedya goes to wash in the shower. Coming out of the shower, he does not find his clothes - Shurik stole them. Fedya, tied with a washcloth, jumps out of the shower and again rushes in pursuit of Shurik. He runs through a cloud of smoke from burning bitumen, and Shurik throws a garland of electrical insulators around his neck. Fedya, who in the blink of an eye looks like a black-skinned savage, is chasing after Shurik. Shurik runs into the apartment where the wallpaper was glued, scatters several rolls of wallpaper on the floor and pours paste over it all. He tripped Feda, who ran into the room, and wrapped him in a huge roll of wallpaper, completely immobilizing him. After that, despite Fedya's persuasion, Shurik subjects him to flogging with rods soaked in glue.

The next morning at the distribution Fedya volunteered to work everywhere. But a stern policeman (Vladimir Basov) tells Fedya that a personal outfit has been issued for him for all fifteen days and invites Shurik to pick him up. Seeing Shurik, Fedya loses consciousness.

2.1.2. Cast

Alexander Demyanenko - Shurik, a student working part-time at a construction site
Alexey Smirnov - Fedya, verzila, drunkard, parasite
Mikhail Pugovkin - Pavel Stepanovich, foreman of the construction and installation department
Vladimir Basov - severe policeman
Emmanuel Geller - a passenger with an umbrella trying to get on bus number 13
Rina Green - indignant passenger of bus number 13
Victor Uralsky - police cook who brought lunch to the construction site
Georgy Akhundov - bald passenger on bus no. 13
Valentina Berezutskaya - bus passenger number 13
Svetlana Ageeva - pregnant woman on bus number 13
Vladimir Prikhodko - fifteen-day clock
O. Skvortsov - fifteen-day worker who asked to "announce the entire list" of outfits

2.1.2.1. Uncredited

Nina Delektorskaya - bus passenger number 13
Vladimir Gulyaev - the policeman who brought Fedya and the injured to the police station
Viktor Geraskin - fifteen-day clock with a butterfly
Ivan Turchenkov - fifteen-day clock
Vladimir Butenko - fifteen-day clock
Leonid Gaidai - fifteen-day clock

2.2. obsession

2.2.1. Plot

An examination session is underway at the Polytechnic Institute. Shurik is looking for lecture notes to prepare for the exam. Entering the dorm room to a fellow student nicknamed Oak (Viktor Pavlov), Shurik sees him in headphones. In fact, Oak and his friend Kostya (Viktor Zozulin) figured out how to pass the exam without cramming and cheat sheets using a radio transmitter and receiver, but he does not reveal a secret to Shurik, but only says that he listens to the most popular Van Cliburn in those years.

Frame from the short story "Obsession"
- Mustards!
- Uh-huh...

Running around the university yard in search of a summary, Shurik sees a huge crowd of students reading a summary, but he cannot break through into the crowd. Even students sit on a tree and read a summary through binoculars. Shurik even looks into the book in his hands at the monument. Shurik gets on the Tatra-T3SU tram, where in the crowd he accidentally sees a summary on a subject of interest to him in the hands of a girl with a girlfriend (later it turns out that her name is Lida, actress Natalya Selezneva). He relentlessly follows them, reading the summary over Lida's shoulder and not even realizing where he is and what is happening to him. Immersed in the abstract and Lida herself. Only Shurik and Lida get out of the tram, carrying a summary, her friend fell asleep and drove to the right stop. So Shurik gets into Lida's apartment. Both he and she are so passionate about preparing for exams that they completely do not notice each other: Lida thinks that her friend is nearby, and Shurik does not think about anything at all, except for the notes. Without looking up from the notes, the couple has a snack, rests on the couch, undressed to underwear and soon goes to the exam.

It's time for the exam. The tricks of Oak and Kostya do not help them: the professor who takes the exam (Vladimir Rautbart) reveals their plans and discreetly turns on a portable jammer that causes interference on Kostya's transmission frequency. The professor, dying of laughter, takes out a microphone from a flower in Oak's buttonhole and puts it on the subject, unsuccessfully, but excellent for the idea. Another unfortunate student (Valery Nosik) confuses exam tickets with playing cards, pretty much embarrassing the professor by the fact that he, forgetting where he is, was carried away by the offer to play a point. The teacher who came to his senses asks the unlucky student to come later (the result is “bust”).

Shurik and Lida, students on parallel streams, pass the exam successfully. After the surrender, Shurik notes "five" at the soda machine, drinking a couple of glasses and pouring a couple more on his head. His friend approaches him. Here Shurik freezes like a pillar: he saw an angel girl who, as it seemed to him, was swimming. He asks a friend who it is, a friend, it turns out, knows her and offers to introduce Shurik to Lida. But they don't recognize each other. Shurik was so embarrassed that he mixed up his name and initially called himself Petya. After meeting Shurik escorts Lida home. All the obstacles that were successfully overcome in the state of "studying the abstract" while traveling home and back together, in the "normal" state, required the application of elements of thinking. At the entrance of the house where she lives, an unpleasant surprise awaits them: the folded things of a moving neighbor (George Georgiou) are guarded by an angry dog. The brave, quick-witted Shurik knows how to take Lida home: he throws the cat into the elevator, but the evil dog manages to tear his trousers. Lida persuades Shurik to sew up Shurik's trousers. So he ends up at her house again. It seems to Shurik that he has already been here - objects, sounds, smells - everything seems familiar to him. Lida has an assumption that Shurik has the gift of foresight or telepathy, like Wolf Messing. She immediately invents a test - she invites Shurik to fulfill her desire, mentally inspired by him. For verification, she writes her desire on paper - to find Teddy bear. Shurik does not pass the test - instead of finding the bear, he kisses Lida, who, however, is quite pleased with this result.

2.2.2. Cast

Alexander Demyanenko - Shurik, a student at the session
Natalia Selezneva - Lida, student of the Polytechnic Institute
Vladimir Rautbart - Professor
Viktor Pavlov - Oak, student inventor
Valery Nosik - student player
George Georgiou - newcomer neighbor with a bandaged throat, the owner angry dog(credited as V. Georgiou)
Natalia Gitzerot - neighbor's wife, owner of an angry dog
Zoya Fedorova - Aunt Zoya, Lida's neighbor
Ludmila Kovalets - Ira, Lida's girlfriend, who fell asleep on the tram
Sergey Zhirnov - student, Shurik's friend
Victor Zozulin - Kostya, radio engineer, comrade Duba
Nikolai Kazakov - student reading notes with binoculars while sitting in a tree (uncredited) [source?]

2.3. Operation Y"

2.3.1. Plot

Winter. Zarechensky collective farm market. The people trade in handicrafts and what they bring subsidiary farm, Dunce (Yuri Nikulin) with Coward (Georgy Vitsin) sell porcelain cats, small wall rugs and candies there. Chief Experienced (Evgeny Morgunov) comes up to them and instructs them to turn off - there is a “case” for them. At the exit from the market, where they left their transport in the middle of the road - a double motorized wheelchair for the disabled SMZ S-3A, the van driver (Vladimir Komarovsky) is waiting for them, dissatisfied with the fact that the road is blocked. Experienced promptly resolves the conflict, easily turns the motorized stroller around with his hands and the trinity leaves.

Trinity of criminals:
- Roll up, there's work!

The director of the Petukhov base (Vladimir Vladislavsky) stole, and in order to save himself from the upcoming revision and avert the wrath of justice from himself, he hires Coward, Dunce and Experienced to stage a warehouse break-in and create the appearance of theft. The Trinity carefully listens to Petukhov, consults with the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and, after bargaining, agrees to the “case” under the name “Operation Y” accidentally invented by the Dunce for 330 rubles each.

Night, blizzard. The coward approaches the watchman, tries to put him to sleep with a handkerchief dipped in chloroform, Dunce tries to open the lock on the warehouse door with a crowbar, Experienced helps him. Dunce steals bottles of wine from a box, Coward, in the manner of a sower, "sows" cereals on the floor. Experienced is watching all this. Suddenly, everything is interrupted by Petukhov's shout. It turns out that Petukhov, in order for the trinity to succeed with the theft, arranged a training session, using his own barn for this. He is very dissatisfied with the trained criminals and points out their mistakes to them: Experienced left his post; The coward asked the old lady how to get to the library at 3 am when all the libraries are closed; The dunce, instead of breaking the bottles, stole them.

The workout is over. The criminals are waiting "at the base" to go to the "case". Dunce sings the thieves song "Wait, locomotive", accompanying himself on seven-string guitar, and then trains with a crowbar, destroying everything that more or less looks like a castle. The coward will try chloroform to sleep, first on Experienced, then on Dunce, then on porcelain cats. Experienced works with a punching bag. The rest is over, before going to work, the trinity drinks for the success of the operation, but not vodka or wine, but milk.

Unfortunately for them, on the day of the "robbery of the century", the grandmother - "God's dandelion" (Maria Kravchunovskaya), who usually guarded the warehouse, was replaced by the student Shurik who rented her room, who could not keep track of the mistress's granddaughter.

Ready to put the watchman to sleep with chloroform, the Coward approaches and asks for a cigarette. But when he sees Shurik instead of his grandmother, he faints from surprise. Shurik tries to bring Coward to his senses, while running a rag with chloroform over his face. The coward, who had begun to come to his senses, falls asleep. At this time, the Dunce successfully breaks into the warehouse and begins to stage a robbery: he breaks the empty bottles he brought, and he took the wine for himself, putting it in his inner breast pocket. Shurik brings Trus to the door and sees that the entrance is open. Going on reconnaissance, he soon sees Goonies.

The culmination of the novel is the "battle for the warehouse", during which Shurik and Dunce use musical instruments, swords and so on. During the fight with swords, Shurik gets into the chest pocket of the Dunce, a red liquid begins to drip. Both mistook it for blood. Shurik feels remorse and is lost. However, Dunce accidentally tasted that it was wine, threw the broken bottle out of his pocket and ran to the exit. But the awakened Shurik throws a lasso on the Goon, and he falls and loses consciousness. Shurik takes the whistle and whistles. Experienced comes running with an armband and introduces himself as a vigilante. He is going to guard the "plunderers of socialist property", and sends Shurik to call the police at the nearest payphone in 2 blocks. Meanwhile, Experienced is trying to wake Coward and Dunce, but he fails. At this time, Shurik runs to the payphone, which turned out to be inoperative. Shurik returns to the warehouse and sees how the "vigilante" is trying to take the criminals away from the crime scene. Shurik finally understands that the "druzhinnik" is an accomplice of the Coward and Dunce. Having hidden, he “arms himself” with packs of snuff, causing a helpless sneeze of Experienced, whom Shurik directs to a pile of buckets. From hitting a bucket, Experienced falls unconscious next to Coward and Dunce. Shurik, not suspecting anything, takes a rag with chloroform and wipes the sweat off his face, and, having fallen asleep under the influence of chloroform, falls next to the three crooks. A mouse running nearby, sniffing a rag, also falls asleep.

Today we will talk about the most beautiful comedy of the Soviet era - "Operation" Y "and other adventures of Shurik." The film was the leader of film distribution in the USSR in 1965 and was a great success, and the Soviet Russian film director Leonid Gaidai was the director.

Leonid Gaidai

Soviet Russian film director, actor, screenwriter. National artist USSR (1989). Laureate State Prize RSFSR named after the Vasiliev brothers (1970).

Date and place of birth - January 30, 1923, Svobodny, Amur province, Far Eastern region, RSFSR, USSR

In the same 1923, the family moved to Chita, then to Irkutsk, where they lived in the railway village of Glazkovo.

He studied at the Irkutsk Railway School No. 42, which he graduated on June 18, 1941, and on June 23, 1941 he went to sign up as a volunteer in the army, but he was not taken because of his age. He got a job as a stage worker at the Irkutsk Drama Theater, where at that time the Moscow Theater of Satire remained in the evacuation. I watched all the performances, went on tour.

Participated in the war. He was called up in the autumn of 1941 and initially served in Mongolia, then was sent to the Kalinin Front, in intelligence. On December 14, 1942, in the battles for the village of Enkino, he threw grenades at the enemy’s firing point and destroyed three Germans, participated in the capture of prisoners, for which he was awarded the medal “For Military Merit” (order No. rifle division). He was seriously wounded by blowing up on an anti-personnel mine, after which he was declared unfit for further carrying military service and sent to the hospital.

From June 1943 to January 1944, he was treated at the evacuation hospital No. 1386 in Ivanovo, located in the buildings of the current schools No. 49 and 31 (the town of Sosnevo).

In 1947 he graduated theater studio at the Irkutsk Regional Drama Theater (now the Irkutsk Academic Drama Theater named after N.P. Okhlopkov), where he worked as a lighting engineer and actor.

In 1949-1955 he studied at the directing department of VGIK in Moscow.

Since 1955 - director of the film studio "Mosfilm".

In 1956, the director's first film was released - " Long haul”, staged based on the stories of V. G. Korolenko together with V. Nevzorov.

In 1958, the satirical film "The Bridegroom from the Other World" appeared on the screens, which almost cost the director his career. After editing and removing all the scenes that were objectionable to the authorities, a little more than half of the film remained. Despite the favor of the director of Mosfilm, I. A. Pyryev, L. Gaidai was practically removed from directing work.

Only in 1960, after the release of the ideologically “correct” film “Thrice Risen” (which the director himself never mentioned later), he was “forgiven”.

Then there were short films in 1961 - "Dog Mongrel and an unusual cross" and "Moonshiners". These works bring fame to the director, as well as the legendary trio Coward - Dunce - Experienced. On the next year L. Gaidai will film three short stories by O. Henry as part of his film "Business People".

After taking a break of three years, the director releases three films in a row, which become popularly loved. The comedy "Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures", consisting of three film novels, takes first place at the box office in 1965, as well as the next two films - "Prisoner of the Caucasus, or Shurik's New Adventures" (1966) and "The Diamond Hand" (1968).

About operation "Y" and other adventures of Shurik

1965 Soviet comedy feature film directed by Leonid Gaidai.

The film was the leader of film distribution in the USSR in 1965 and was a great success: 69.6 million viewers watched it. In the same year, at the short film festival in Krakow, the short story "Delusion" was awarded the main prize - "The Silver Dragon of Wawel".

The film consists of three stories, united by the figure of the main character Shurik, who finds himself in the most incredible situations. In "Partner" Shurik fights with a hooligan Verzila; in "Delusion" he prepares for the exam in a very original way; in "Operation "Y" prevents the "robbery of the century", which is the famous trio - Dunce, Coward and Experienced.

The adventures of the student Shurik were continued in the film "Prisoner of the Caucasus, or Shurik's New Adventures."

And it all starts...

At the beginning of 1964, Gaidai met two screenwriters: Maurice Slobodsky and Yakov Kostyukovsky. They offer the director the script "Fun Stories" which includes two film novellas about a bespectacled student Vladik Arkov. In the first short story, he re-educates a certain Gloomy type who is cool about his work, not polite to ladies, etc. bourgeois family somewhere far away. Gaidai joins in creating the script.

On March 10, 1964, in the 2nd creative association of the Mosfilm film studio, an application was accepted for the script "Fun Stories" and an agreement was concluded with its authors. On March 25, the literary script was approved and the go-ahead was given to launch it into directorial development. True, the literary script was already very different from the original application: the student's name remained the same - Vladik Arkov, but the plot of the short stories changed and acquired the basis that is well known to us from the film.

On June 1, screen tests of actors for the main and episodic roles began. The most difficult was the search for the main character - student Vladik. In Moscow alone, Gaidai reviewed more than a hundred candidates, among whom were actors who soon became famous: Vitaly Solomin, Sergey Nikonenko, Evgeny Zharikov, Vsevolod Abdulov, Gennady Korolkov, Ivan Bortnik, Valery Nosik, Alexander Zbruev, Evgeny Petrosyan, Andrey Mironov ( only negotiations were conducted with the latter).

As a result, the artistic council of the studio settled on the candidacy of Valery Nosik, although Gaidai himself doubted.

Having accidentally seen a photo of the young actor Alexander Demyanenko, Gaidai went to Leningrad on July 11 for personal negotiations.

In the film, Valery Nosik nevertheless starred - he played a cameo role of a student in the exam.

Lida

Selezneva came to the audition without any hope of success, before that she had a good time on the beach. As soon as she entered the pavilion, Gaidai suggested that she pass a very risky test: to undress in front of the camera. The actress hesitated. Then Gaidai uttered a fatal phrase: “Of course, I like you, but it seems to me that your figure is not very good ...” Then pride surged in Selezneva, and she threw off her dress, remaining in one bathing suit.

And then she was approved for the role of a modest Soviet student.

The first shooting day of the film "Operation Y" is dated July 27. On that day, on the territory of Mosfilm, an episode “in the police yard” was filmed with the participation of extras (she portrayed parasitic alcoholics) and two actors: Smirnov (Verzil) and Vladimir Basov (policeman).

Filming in Odessa began on October 21. But even there the group continued to pursue bad rock: the shooting scheduled for this day was canceled due to Demyanenko's sudden illness: the downtime lasted until October 25. And when the shooting resumed, the weather suddenly deteriorated and the object “near Lida’s house” (Proletarsky Boulevard, 22) had to be shot in several passes.

On December 12, the group moved to Leningrad, where the third short story was to be filmed. However, the weather was not encouraging. On December 14, 10 dump trucks brought snow to the site of the upcoming shooting, but it all melted. It was decided to replace the snow with improvised materials - cotton wool, naphthalene. When everything was ready, so that the “snow” would not be blown away by the wind, they started filming ... from the end.

From the episode when the old woman "God's dandelion" runs to the warehouse and finds four sleeping men there: Shurik, Coward, Dunce and Experienced and a mouse brought by trainer Knyazev. By the way, the mouse was most of all scolded at the artistic council and they wanted to cut it out of the picture, but the director defended the gray artist.

On January 12, a meeting of the artistic council of the 2nd association took place, at which the footage was viewed. It was at this meeting that Ivan Pyryev proposed changing the title of the film "Funny Stories" to "Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures."

It's also interesting to know...

In the scene of the fight between the heroes Demyanenko and Nikulin, when the latter pushes a rail cart with his foot, it comes back, hitting a car tire. However, in the next frame we see that there is no tire behind the trolley approaching Shurik.

In the short story "Operation" Y ", in the scene on the market, it can be seen that when Dunce (Yuri Nikulin) pours money from the piggy bank into the bosom of his jacket, this money then spills out from under the jacket and falls down.

At the moment when Yuri Nikulin breaks the bottles at the base, he puts the bottle taken from the box in his jacket into his right pocket. But in the scene of Shurik's battle with the Dunce on swords, Shurik lunges and pierces the bottle that appears in his left pocket.

The main car in the market is the "invalid" C-3A manufactured by the Serpukhov Mechanical Plant.

Interestingly, even the director of the film himself did not expect such a success: in the first year, "Operation" was watched by more than 69 million viewers.

The picture "Operation" Y "and other adventures of Shurik" was filmed in four cities: Moscow, Leningrad, Yalta and Odessa.

Gaidai himself played a small role in the film - an alcoholic who says the phrase: "Announce the entire list, please!"

Going to the “case”, the criminals Coward, Dunce and Experienced put the number D 1-01 on their car. Such numbers were only on diplomatic cars.

Sources - Wikipedia, KinoPoisk, Avivas.ru,

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In August 1965, the film "Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures" directed by Leonid Gaidai was released on the screens of the country.

And it all started like this.

At the beginning of 1964, Gaidai met two screenwriters: Maurice Slobodsky and Yakov Kostyukovsky. They offer the director the script "Fun Stories" which includes two film novellas about a bespectacled student Vladik Arkov. In the first short story, he re-educates a certain Gloomy type who treats his work with coolness, is not polite with ladies, etc. bourgeois family somewhere far away. Gaidai joins in creating the script.

On March 10, 1964, in the 2nd creative association of the Mosfilm film studio, an application was accepted for the script "Fun Stories" and an agreement was concluded with its authors.

On March 25, the literary script was approved and the go-ahead was given to launch it into directorial development. True, the literary script was already very different from the original application: the student's name remained the same - Vladik Arkov, but the plot of the short stories changed and acquired the basis that is well known to us from the film. In the first short story - "Partner" Vladik re-educates the parasite - "fifteen days" at a construction site, in the second - "Spring Obsession" - he falls in love with the girl Lida.

The plot of the novel about the love of a student for a classmate during the examination session, Gaidai "peeped" in the Polish magazine "Shpilki".

But two short stories were clearly missing for a full-length film, and the scriptwriters were given the task to come up with a third one, and in it it was necessary to bring together a new hero, Vladik, with the old ones, the Dunce-Coward-Experienced trinity, which the audience loved so much and with which Gaidai was not going to part. After a month of hard work, the short story “Operation“ Y ”was born: this time Vladik, the only “through” hero of all three short stories, had to expose the plunderers of socialist property.

On June 1, screen tests of actors for the main and episodic roles began.

The most difficult was the search for the main character - student Vladik. Gaidai reviewed more than a hundred candidates, among whom were actors who soon became famous: Vitaly Solomin, Sergey Nikonenko, Evgeny Zharikov, Vsevolod Abdulov, Ivan Bortnik, Valery Nosik, Alexander Zbruev, Evgeny Petrosyan and even Andrei Mironov, although only negotiations were conducted with the latter.

As a result, the artistic council of the studio settled on the candidacy of Valery Nosik, although Gaidai himself doubted.

Mikhail Pugovkin, whom the artistic council recommended for the role of Verzila in the first short story, did not quite suit him either. Helped, as always, the case.

Even while working on the script, Gaidai came to the conclusion that he would write off the main character ... from himself. That is why, even outwardly, Vladik Arkov was written out in the script as a copy of Gaidai: a long young man with glasses.

As the director's wife Nina Grebeshkova noted much later: “Vladik is Leonid Iovich himself. All his actions, gestures. Of course, the actor broke them through himself. But the image came from Leni. He really was like that - clumsy, naive and very decent.

And then someone in the film crew said the name young actor Alexandra Demyanenko. Looking at his photograph, Gaidai instantly discovered resemblance with myself. As a result, on July 11, Gaidai went to Leningrad for personal negotiations with Demyanenko. Both were pleased with each other.

The actor later recalled: “When I read the script for Operation Y, I realized that the film was doomed to success. There was nothing like it in our cinema then.”

From St. Petersburg, Gaidai brought another Leningrad actor whom he knew well from joint work in "Business People" - Alexei Smirnov. He wanted to try him for the role of Verzila instead of Pugovkin.

The latter was rejected by the artistic director of the 2nd creative association Ivan Pyryev, who, after looking at the samples, said: “For this role, such a gangster face, like Pugovkin’s, is not suitable!” As a result, Pugovkin will get the role of foreman, for which Vladimir Vysotsky originally auditioned.

Then Gaidai will also find an actress for the main role in the second short story - Natalya Selezneva.

Selezneva came to the audition without any hope of success, before that she had a good time on the beach.

As soon as she entered the pavilion, Gaidai suggested that she pass a very risky test: to undress in front of the camera. The actress hesitated. Then Gaidai uttered the fatal phrase: “Of course, I like you, but it seems to me that your figure is not very good ...” Then Selezneva's vanity surged, and she took off her dress, remaining in one bathing suit. And then she was approved for the role of a modest Soviet student.

The Artistic Council of the 2nd association reviewed these samples and put an end to it - approved the actors for the main roles: Shurik - Demyanenko, Verzila - Smirnov, foreman - Pugovkin, Lida - Selezneva.

And the poor fellow Valery Nosik will play the episodic role of a gambler student taking exams in the short story "Delusion".

By the beginning of filming, Vladik suddenly (for censorship reasons) becomes Shurik - Vladik was rejected by political censorship with the argument that Vladik is Vladlen, and Vladlen is Vladimir Lenin.

It is impossible to name a comic hero after the leader of the world proletariat. On that day, on the territory of Mosfilm, an episode “in the police yard” was filmed with the participation of extras (she portrayed parasitic alcoholics) and two actors: Smirnov (Verzil) and Vladimir Basov (policeman).

In this episode, Gaidai inserted a case from own biography- this refers to the scene during which those arrested for fifteen days are distributed to labor work. True, in his life it was connected with the war. A military commissar came to the Irkutsk theater, where he worked during the war. All the men were lined up, and he asked: “Who wants to go to the front?” Everyone took a step forward. Then the military commissar said: “For a start, we will take those who know German". Only one person took a step forward - Leonid Iovich himself. Gaidai himself played a small role here - in many publications they write that this is the role of an alcoholic who says the phrase: “Announce the entire list, please!”. But in fact, this is a non-professional actor Oleg Skvortsov, and Gaidai played another, less noticeable detainee

Leonid Iovich Gaidai as a detainee in the film "Operation Y" (right)

On July 30, the group moved to one of the construction sites in Sviblovo to start filming the episodes "at the construction site". Throughout August and September, the group worked in a nervous mode. The filmmakers were let down either by the weather, or by technology, or by bad film. As a result, on October 3, Gaidai, together with the cameraman and the artist, flew to Baku to choose locations for outdoor shooting, as the weather in Moscow deteriorated completely and irrevocably. However, the weather in the capital of Azerbaijan was no better. Then the choice fell on Odessa. Filming in Odessa began on October 21. But even there, the group continued to be pursued by evil rock: the shooting scheduled for that day was canceled due to Demyanenko's sudden illness: the downtime lasted until October 25th. And when the shooting resumed, the weather suddenly deteriorated and the object “near Lida’s house” (Proletarsky Boulevard, 22) had to be shot in several passes.

In Odessa, they continued to shoot the first short story. In the Novye Cheryomushki region (there is also one in Odessa), in particular, they filmed an episode where Shurik landed in bitumen. But even here there were some incidents: due to someone's negligence, the bitumen suddenly caught fire. The fire was extinguished by both builders and filmmakers. Filming in Odessa continued until November 22.

Then the group returned to Moscow - they filmed "Lida's apartment" at Mosfilm.

On December 12, the group moved to Leningrad, where the third short story was to be filmed. However, the weather was not good there either. On December 14, 10 dump trucks brought snow to the location of the upcoming shooting, but it all melted before filming began. It was decided to replace the snow with improvised materials - cotton wool, naphthalene. When everything was ready, so that the “snow” would not be blown away by the wind, they began to shoot ... from the end. From the episode when the old woman "God's dandelion" runs to the warehouse and finds four sleeping men there: Shurik, Coward, Dunce and Experienced and a mouse brought by trainer Knyazev. By the way, the mouse was most of all scolded at the artistic council and they wanted to cut it out of the picture, but the director defended the gray artist.

On January 12, a meeting of the artistic council of the 2nd association took place, at which the footage was viewed.

It was at this meeting that Ivan Pyryev proposed changing the title of the film "Funny Stories" to "Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures."

Meanwhile, filming continues. On January 21, in Pavilion No. 13 of Mosfilm, they filmed the "Trinity's Lair": it is there that the Dunce sings the song "Wait, locomotive ...", and the Coward trains first on his partners, and then on porcelain cats

At first, the censorship did not want to let the thieves song through, but Gaidai defended it by removing one verse, which, according to screenwriter Yakov Kostyukovsky, sounded something like this:

Let me be a bastard
I'll get a saw
I'll cut the bars for her
Let the moon shine with its insidious light
But I'll run away from prison

On February 1, in the pavilion No. 8, the episodes of "warehouse robbery" began to be filmed.

Yuri Nikulin recalls: “For the episode “Foil Fighting”, a fencing teacher was invited, who taught us how to fight with foils. After a few lessons, we fought like real athletes. They showed the fight to Leonid Gaidai. He looked bored and said: "You fight well, but it's all boring and should be funny." We have comedy."

It was then that Gaidai came up with an episode when Shurik pierces the Dunce with a sword, he gets blood, which then turns out to be wine from a bottle hidden in his bosom.

And remember, in the third short story, in the episode of the chase in the warehouse, Dunce stumbles upon a skeleton? Eight versions of this scene were filmed. During one of the takes, Nikulin decided to play a trick - he took it and put his finger between his open jaws (which was not provided for by the script), and they suddenly, having closed, clicked. It was this accidentally filmed improvisation that got into the film.

On February 25, an artistic council took place, at which the third short story of the film was discussed. Here is an excerpt from the speech artistic director Ivan Pyryev, 2nd creative association of Mosfilm: “In comedy, the main thing is clarity and tact in behavior. But sometimes this tact of execution is not enough. Here is Morgunov. He is not funny, and often unpleasant. The same thing happens with Vitsin. His demeanor was excellent in Dog Mongrel, but here much seems false. You can't work on the same paint all the time... Nikulin is wonderful in this respect. In each scene, he is original, but always different ... "

At the next artistic council, after viewing the whole picture, Pyryev demanded “to stop filming Morgunov and Pugovkin. They are not interesting and tired ... ". After that, another authority-the scenario-editing collegium-demanded that Gaidai cut out a number of episodes, in particular, when the Negro Berzil was chasing a shurik and when students pass the exams.

But Gaidai left everything as it is. A little later, he was reminded of this when they assigned the category to the film. On July 2, the commission to determine the group classified "Operation" Y "to the 2nd category.

July 8, 1965 CEO"Mosfilm" V. Surin and artistic director of the 2nd creative association I. Pyryev write a letter to the chairman of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on cinematography A. Romanov, in which they declare that the film by Leonid Gaidai deserves the highest praise. Quote from the letter: “In this case, it seems to us, the principle of objectivity and impartiality was violated primarily because behind the dismissive assessment of the film “Operation Y” lies a dismissive attitude towards comedy in general and eccentria in particular. Neither the numerous appeals of the press, nor the insistent wishes of the audience, asking, demanding new and good film comedies, can refute the still prevailing belief that the comic in art, the comic in cinema is a frivolous and low genre ... ". This letter had the same effect - the film was given the 1st category.

The film "Operation" Y "was released on the screens of the country in mid-August 1965. The audience greeted him enthusiastically. Evidence of this is the record for the entire history of Soviet cinema (at that time) the number of viewers who watched the picture - 69 million 600 thousand.

"Operation" Y "..." or "Conductor, press the brakes"

How was the legendary comedy filmed and why did the shooting stop?

"Operation" Y "and other adventures of Shurik" is the first comedy by Leonid Gaidai with Alexander Demyanenko in the image of the eccentric Shurik.

Serious approach to frivolous stories

The 2nd creative association of the film studio "Mosfilm" accepted the script application for the future film "Not Serious Stories" in March 1964, and in August 1965 the all-Union premiere took place.

In the film, three short stories are united by one hero - the eccentric Shurik, who gets into trouble, but emerges victorious. And at first there were two short stories. Made them related central character, but he was different: the student's name was not Shurik, but Vladik. In one of the short stories, he was re-educating a grumbler and a lazy person who did not like work, but was courteous to the ladies. And in another part, Vladik Arkov, as a tutor, prepared modern Mitrofanushka for entrance exams to the university, who did not want to study or get married, but simply dreamed of getting rid of parental care.

In the film, everything, as we remember, looks different. In the "Partner" part, a bespectacled student working part-time at a construction site finds on his head a would-be assistant - a big man who received "15 days" - "don't care" Verzila. In the short story "Delusion" Shurik amusingly meets a girl with whom he blindly prepared for the exam. And in last snippet("Operation "Y") the hero accidentally finds himself at the scene of a crime, preempting a contractual robbery involving Experienced, Coward and Dunce. These three, as well as the film's cinematographer Konstantin Brovin, were also involved in Leonid Gaidai's previous short films: Dog Mongrel and an Unusual Cross Country, Business People and Moonshiners. But the one who would personify Shurik had yet to be found.

"For our chance acquaintance!"

Negotiations were conducted with Andrey Mironov, but it did not come to screen tests. And imagine what our favorite hero would be if played by Oleg Vidov or Alexander Zbruev, Vitaly Solomin or Evgeny Zharikov. In addition to them, Valery Nosik and Alexander Lenkov, Gennady Korolkov and Vladimir Korenev, Alexei Eibozhenko and Ivan Bortnik, Sergei Nikonenko and Vsevolod Abdulov auditioned for the role of Vladik (Shurik).

For some reason, none of the applicants did not suit the director. And when one of his colleagues mentioned that there was a suitable actor in Leningrad, he personally went to get acquainted with this recommended artist. So in July 1964, the life of Alexander Demyanenko changed once and for all, thanks to a fateful meeting with Leonid Gaidai. The image of Shurik "glued" to the actor will not allow him to play the roles that he dreamed of later, but in his creative biography there will be works for which the artist will be remembered for a long time. Because Gaidai's comedies are timeless, they are loved by viewers of all generations. And the actor himself determined that the comedy was doomed to success as soon as he read the script: we didn’t make such films before “Operation Y”.

Demyanenko had already been approved for the lead role, and less than a week was left before the start of filming, when suddenly the artistic council decided to make sure that the choice was correct. A second test was arranged for Valery Nosik. Comparing both actors, the role was given to Demyanenko, and Nosik was offered an episode with a student gambler taking an exam in the short story "Obsession".

But not only for the performer of the role of Shurik, Gaidai went to the city on the Neva. From there, another Leningrad actor, Alexei Smirnov, was also invited to the picture. Many candidates portrayed the tall man at screen tests, among them was Mikhail Pugovkin. After Pugovkin was criticized by Ivan Pyriev (they say he didn’t come out with his face), the artist was given the role of a foreman, and in the image of Verzila they decided to shoot the big man Smirnov.

They recommended the director and debutant composer Alexander Zatsepin, who had recently moved to Moscow and earned his living by playing the accordion in restaurants. "Wait, locomotive!" wrote a 38-year-old musician with Siberian roots, for whom acquaintance with Gaidai was a pass to great art.

Only cats will be born quickly

In the era of plans and labor commitments, filmmakers were covered in the same way as machine operators at the factory. Records of shooting days have been preserved in the archives of the studio, which can be used to judge the pace of work and the workload of the actors. Ironically, the performance of the film crew in the episodes with the lazy man Verzila was no greater than that of the hero Alexei Smirnov.

Filming starts on July 27th. The first scene is the formation of "alcoholics, parasites, hooligans" in the police yard (near the 9th Mosfilm laboratory). Extras are participating, Vladimir Basov (policeman) and Alexei Smirnov (Verzila).

The next shoot is in 10 days. August 7 again in the frame - Smirnov, but now - with Pugovkin. The foreman shows the construction site to a friend who has joined for 15 days. “Have you had accidents at a construction site? .. Will be!”, Verzila said this text at a real construction site in Sviblovo.

Three days later - construction again. On August 10, Verzila was supposed to chase Shurik. Instead of Demyanenko, an understudy ran. For the whole day - three shots: Big man sticks out from behind a pile, close-up Smirnova, Verzila runs to the tractor. Due to a faulty engine, filming stopped at 4:30 p.m. A day later, at the same time, they will finish shooting because of the rain. On August 12, they will only have time to shoot the episode with Big Guy throwing a bag from the lift.

And the day before, they mastered the episode with washing Verzila in the shower, when Shurik stole his clothes. Demyanenko is not on the site again - things are stolen by an understudy (in the frame - his hand). In a loincloth, Verzila jumped out of the shower only on August 28, but he failed to chase Shurik - the camera broke. After lunch they brought another one, but they still didn’t have time to fulfill the plan of the shooting day - it got dark.

Lunch was brought to Verzila, who was serving his labor service, on August 13. An unlucky number did not bode well. And as soon as Smirnov finished his barbecue, the film crew also lay down to rest with him in the midday heat. Due to a scratch on the film, the camera needed to be repaired or replaced. Three hours later, two mechanics arrived, along with the head of the operator's shop, Fayman. By joint efforts, the defect was eliminated, but the rain again prevented filming. The plan for the footage that day was again not fulfilled.

Then they filmed three episodes from the short story "Obsession". For Lida and her girlfriend Ira, Shurik ran around the city for three days. On August 26, the girls walked along Komsomolskoye Highway and Frunzenskaya Embankment, and Shurik stood at the kiosk. At the tram stop near VDNKh, all three stood on August 25, boarded the tram on August 27, and rode and got off the tram a few more days later. Capturing the scene in the tram was not immediately possible due to the difficulties of shooting in motion. The plan for the footage was again “filled up”.

Not everything went smoothly during the winter shooting. The third short story - with Vitsin, Morgunov and Nikulin - was filmed in Leningrad, where the film crew, as guessed, arrived on December 13th. The bad luck started with the weather. The snow brought to the shooting location by ten dump trucks melted, it rained for three days, and the actors had to wait for the props to prepare the scenery not only for the base, but also for the “snow-covered” street. In the frame, under the feet of the heroes, it was not snow in the cold that creaked, but polystyrene. They also brought a lot of cotton wool, and the props and clothes of the actors were generously sprinkled with mothballs.

By the way, according to the plot, the “summer” shooting of the exam episodes by the heroes Valery Nosik (student gambler) and Viktor Pavlov (Oak with a bandaged ear) was filmed on January 11, but not in Leningrad, but in the capital, in the audience of the Moscow Economic Institute.

Terrarium of like-minded people

And the next day, the footage was analyzed by the artistic council. After watching the first two novels good feedback received directing and camera work, colleagues liked the acting of Demyanenko, Smirnov and Pugovkin. But the biggest boss - the artistic director of the 2nd creative association and the "hard" director Ivan Pyryev again found fault with Pugovkin, recommending that he reduce the time he spent in the frame. "Unnecessarily detailed" seemed to him and the image of a policeman. Pyryev did not approve of the choice of Basov for this role - not the same type, they say. I picked up the idea of the artistic director of the association and the editor-in-chief. “Basov is not good,” Boris Kremnev joined in the criticism, “it’s better to reshoot the episode with the police.” At the same time, the captious Pyryev suddenly praised the second short story, which he supposedly underestimated. The artistic director recognized the former skepticism regarding "Obsession" as erroneous, and later generally called this part " best luck comedy", "fresh intonation", "a new facet of directing talent" and "a step forward in the work of Gaidai". He closed the meeting of the artistic council with a proposal to replace the title of the film "Fun Stories". No one dared to argue with the boss's version: the comedy was called Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures.

A month later, the third short story was discussed. On February 25, Vitsin got from Pyryev: his performance seemed fake to the artistic director. Having reproached the artist for repeating the image from "The Dog Mongrel", Pyriev advised looking for "new colors" and set Nikulin as an example, who is "always different." But with special pressure, the "Mosfilm" boss attacked Morgunov, whom he called "not funny, but unpleasant." At the final verdict on the film on April 23, Pyryev stated bluntly: “We need to stop filming Morgunov and Pugovkin! Tired. Not interesting".

After advice to cut lengths in the first and third parts of the film, Gaidai excluded some episodes and submitted a re-recorded version to the court of the Mosfilm directorate. The general viewing was scheduled, as is done, for May 13th. The script editorial board ordered to shorten the chase shots in the first short story (long), remove the episodes with the Papuan Big Man (deliberately) and cut out the exam scenes (they fall out of the general style).

Fortunately for the viewer, the director ignored the recommendations, for which he paid with the status of the picture: a comedy that outlived its time was assigned only the second category. The commission's decision was not even affected by the film's victory at the Krakow Film Festival (the award was given to the second short story "Delusion").

The first category in the same 1965 included films that not only no one remembers now, but few people even watched then: “Who do we love more” (for 7 months - 2.4 million), “A bridge is being built” ( for six months - 2.6 million), "House in the Dunes" (for the year - 3.4 million).

The comedy of Leonid Gaidai "Operation" Y "..." in the year of release on the screen (since mid-August, for 4.5 months) was watched by 69.6 million viewers. It was the top spot in the list of premieres in 1965 and an absolute record for films of the "frivolous" genre.

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Vyacheslav Kaprelyants, 2015