This film will not leave anyone indifferent.
“Love and pigeons” — a Soviet romantic Comedy, filmed in 1984 at the Studio “Mosfilm” Vladimir Menshov based on the play written by a theater actor Vladimir Gurkin in 1981.
Real Basil and Hope Kusakina lived in the town of Cheremkhovo and were neighbors of the writer Vladimir Gurkin. Collier Basil tried to steal from the family of an employee of the management company, but the love for his wife was stronger. The play and later the movie became so popular that in Minsk put a monument to the heroes.
Baba Shura (Natalya Tenyakova) and Uncle Mitya (Sergei Yursky) and the life of the couple. This is one of the most intelligent pairs of the Northern capital, so it is especially surprising how convincing they played the village people.
The shooting of the film was held in Karelia, Medvezhyegorsk. Director Vladimir Menshov wanted to see around the hilly landscape, looking for him in the vicinity of lake Baikal, but found nothing suitable. In Medvezh’yegorsk crew brought the name of the city: the end of “gorsk” promised a lot. After a long walk through the city landscape dream, finally, was found on the outskirts, near a house by the river Asheville.
Shooting in the house lasted for a month and all this time it lived in the owners and tried to lead a normal life. They hosted the members of the crew and allowed us to tile the whole floor a tree to the house was similar to the Siberian. In memory of the cult film the owners left a dovecote and a summer kitchen, stood for many years.
The play is about a family Kusakina Nina Doroshina in the main role was placed on the stage of the theatre “Sovremennik”. Director Vladimir Menshov somehow happened to be in the audience and came up with the idea to make a film version of the play.
Scenes at sea were filmed in Batumi. Watch the film and just swim in ice-cold water (14 degrees) it was quite difficult, and Mikhailov and Gurchenko had to conduct dialogue and to pretend that it is happening on the beach.
In order to capture spectacular scene with blooming tree in Medvezh’yegorsk called the magician. He hid in the branches a dozen canes – requisite for a well-known trick. So the cane was covered with flowers, it was enough to pull the rope, but they were all afraid that canes don’t work at the same time. But the crew was lucky: the tree “blossomed” on the first take.
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