Young Ryazanov, an unknown documentary filmmaker and son of a political prisoner, then finished his first film. The future master saw himself only as a drama director and has already set his sights on the next shooting of a complex movie with a deep plot. He voiced his idea to the head of Mosfilm, Ivan Pyryev, but he, understanding the abilities of Eldar Alexandrovich, objected.
Pyryev put before the director the script for the New Year's comedy film by Laskin and Polyakov, which Ryazanov categorically did not like. He considered it simply incomplete and found a lot of inconsistencies in the plot of the story.
But what to do - the boss demands, it is necessary to fulfill. Ryazanov sat down to develop the director's script, scolding the text of the film for not matching the genre - Eldar Aleksandrovich had a variety review in his hands, and not a full-fledged film, in order to make it a more or less watchable picture, he had to give dynamics to the action.
Ogurtsov
In parallel with the director's grumblings and proofreading of the script, it was necessary to look at the artists. Someone suggested sophomore Lyusya Gurchenko, a beauty with a charming smile and a thin waist. Filmed, gave the director a tape. But on it Ryazanov saw some kind of articulated doll, completely unwilling to come to life. Gurchenko was rejected.
In the meantime, another main role was also empty - the official Ogurtsov. Ryazanov tried Pyotr Konstantinov on her, but in the end he came to the conclusion that he was too strict and not at all funny official, who rather frightened the viewer than made him laugh.
Pyryev came to the rescue and ordered Igor Ilyinsky to be tried. Ryazanov was thrown into a fever: a very young director was simply afraid to take a back seat in the presence of a titled master twice his age. And again - what to do? Management ordered...
Ryazanov later recalled in his book that on the eve of negotiations with the actor, he developed a special tactic for talking with the star. And he was sincerely discouraged when Ilyinsky turned out to be the most intelligent person and treated the novice director and his idea with respect and warmth.
“Not Gurchenko!”
From Igor Vladimirovich came the brilliant Ogurtsov. During filming, the director took care of him as best he could. When, according to the script, the hero of Ilyinsky received a well-deserved kick in the ass, Ryazanov grabbed his head and shouted from the spot: “Be careful! This is a folk artist!
And here is the main female role was still unoccupied. The head of Mosfilm intervened here too. He met Gurchenko in the corridor, passed by, and then called out. Examined the actress, literally turned in his hands. "Come on, don't make a fuss!" - he said to the grimacing beauty, who was walking with friends from the course. "Let's go," he says.
When Pyryev brought that very rejected doll into the pavilion, Ryazanov almost recoiled, fortunately he managed to pull himself together. “Only not Gurchenko!” he said on the eve of Pyryev, and here you are!"Will play!", - snapped the leader.
Later, looking at the tapes from the samples, Ryazanov found a mistake: the role, of course, was Lyusina, only because of the cameraman, who somehow worked on the samples, considering them unimportant, Gurchenko appeared somehow inanimate.
In truth, the role of Lena Krylova was not spelled out as the main one. The actress was required to have the beauty and youth of a typical Soviet girl. And only the talent of Gurchenko embellished the usual image so that the role turned out to be paramount.
After the release of the comedy on the screen, it was the young actress Lucy who began to be considered the standard female beauty . Soviet women of fashion immediately pulled into corsets to discover thin waist, and also stormed hairdressers - they curled their hair with “light chemistry”, which he wears in “ New Year's Eve» Gurchenko. Well, then one could only dream of a neat white fur muff. She was “gotten” by pull and worn with special chic only by metropolitan beauties from wealthy families.
Many things were first...
So writes Gurchenko in his book of memoirs. It turns out that before the "Carnival Night" actresses did not sing in the frame. They worked to the soundtrack of the singers, but Lyudmila Markovna opened new page in cinema.
There is a lot of music in Carnival Night. Each composition chosen by Ryazanov was carefully inspected by Pyriev. Gurchenko was taken with them - to composers and songwriters. Those showed her songs, she immediately tried to sing them. Something was rejected, others were taken to work.
The first such large-scale work of Ryazanov, of course, was not easy for him. Much had to be re-shot, something did not work. In the middle of filming, the management was even indignant: the money allocated for the project was already running out, the director was busy with every frame, and the film was only half ready. “This boring and incompetent material” - this is how the masters spoke about it, they already planned to finish it as soon as possible, hand it over, get their bumps for poor work and forget it.
However, it was here that Ryazanov realized that improvisation could be used - then the director would often insert random phrases of artists and tales of screenwriters into films right in the course of filming. But this is the first time he has experienced this.
Having learned, for example, that fraudulent societies appeared in the USSR, ready to give pseudoscientific lectures for hours, if only they would pay money, he entered into the script the hero Sergei Filippov, the lecturer, whose speech was most of all taken into quotes. It was he who did not know if there was life on Mars, and also recommended five stars to everyone.
Spurred on by bad reviews and the stern looks of the masters who rejected the film, Ryazanov first delayed for a long time, and then, after a record period of five months, he suddenly presented the finished full-length film. At the first viewing, in addition to the director, there was also Ilyinsky and Gurchenko. The artist leaned over to his young colleague: “I feel, Lucy, after this film you will be popular for a long time.”
Exit
Cinema, considered bad job, not announced or advertised in any way. After lying on the shelves for three whole years, the film was released on December 28, 1956 and immediately broke all records. For the next three years, there were long queues in the cold for tickets to Carnival Night. The movie was a hit in 1957. Then it was watched by more than 50 million people.
The directors, who then rejected the work, shrugged their shoulders, critics enthusiastically praised both the artists who could both sing and dance, and the director, who subtly calculated when it was time to finish the next number and change the frame.
As soon as it appeared, this film was immediately disassembled into quotes ... And today, after five decades, it remains one of the most famous and beloved comedies by the audience. " Carnival Night"opened to the world the talent of the young Lyudmila Gurchenko and the novice director Eldar Ryazanov, who was destined to become a classic of the comic genre.
After finishing in 1955 work on musical picture"Voices of Spring", young director Eldar Ryazanov applied for the production of the film "Meetings in Kamchatka".
Eldar Ryazanov
However, the director of Mosfilm, Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev, suggested that he make a comedy based on the script by B. Laskin and V. Polyakov. Ryazanov wanted to devote himself to drama and refused. But the leader was persistent.
Ivan Alexandrovich Pyryev
Scenario Laskin - Polyakov did not cause much enthusiasm in Ryazanov. In essence, it was a variety film review. Instead of living people, the scenario was inhabited by masks. Resigned, Ryazanov proceeds to develop a director's script, although this could not save the situation. Eldar Alexandrovich will say later:
“I had to give the action such a rapid pace that the viewer would not notice the plot and all sorts of other inconsistencies and inconsistencies.”
Ryazanov considered the bureaucrat Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov to be the most important figure. It was this image that made it possible to give the film a satirical, topical orientation. For this role, Ryazanov tried many artists until he settled on the candidacy of Peter Konstantinov. But Pyryev, having seen Konstantinov’s sample, rejected it categorically: “Igor Ilyinsky should play the role of Ogurtsov!”
And while Igor Vladimirovich read the script, Ryazanov prayed in his heart:
“It would be nice to refuse!” “On the eve of the meeting with the actor, I developed a program - how to behave with a celebrity,” Eldar Alexandrovich writes in his book. “To my deep amazement, Ilyinsky behaved unusually delicately, modestly, without showing his superiority in any way.”
A man of rare intelligence, Ilyinsky treated the young director with genuine respect. They immediately found mutual language. The role of Ogurtsov was completed together, during rehearsals and filming.
The role of Ogurtsov in "Carnival Night" is a sharply satirical role, in many respects close to the famous Byvalov from "Volga-Volga". Ilyinsky was afraid of self-repetition.
Ryazanov invited Igor Vladimirovich to play a bureaucrat of a new formation:
“Ogurtsov is unlike other bosses who have grown into an easy chair. He is enterprising... open, simple... democratic without familiarity and familiarity. It has all the qualities that we demand from goodie. But for all that, Ogurtsov is a complete fool.
Igor Ilyinsky did an excellent job with the role of Ogurtsov. But the audience took it as main character and Lena Krylov - Lyudmila Gurchenko. This is all the more surprising given that this role is dramatically lackluster in the script.
When, in the spring of 1956, 20-year-old student of the Institute of Cinematography Lyudmila Gurchenko auditioned for the role of Lena Krylova, her task was to create an attractive image modern girl. She sang the Lolita Torres song from the movie Age of Love. The actresses who auditioned for the role did not sing themselves, but opened their mouths to someone else's soundtrack. Gurchenko sang herself. But in those days, the main thing was the appearance of the actress. Lyudmila was filmed by one of the assistants of the chief cameraman, and filmed unsuccessfully. The costume is random, hastily tested. Gurchenko's candidacy was not even considered at the artistic council.
However, intervened Lucky case in the person of the same Pyryev. They collided in the production building of Mosfilm. Along the corridor, rustling with numerous skirts (there was such a fashion in those days - a lower skirt was worn under the upper skirt), a young lady was skipping. Delight was written on her face, she built incredible faces to herself and those around her, grimaced and laughed when someone tried to grab her incredibly thin waist with two fingers. Walking towards her most main man at the studio, Ivan Alexandrovich Pyryev involuntarily stopped, watching this miracle.
After waiting until the miracle nearly knocked him down, he stopped the girl, turned her around to face him, looked carefully into her eyes and said: “Don’t bother with your face!” And asked where he could see her. Gurchenko, forgetting about the reduction of vowels and consonants, which she was taught at the institute, gave out with a Kharkov accent: “That sho is there! On samples at Ryazanov! "Come with me!" - said Pyryev. Bouncing with delight, a young student of VGIK ran after him. “What are you all spinning about! Take it easy!"
Pyryev brought Gurchenko to the pavilion where the film was being shot and asked the experienced cameraman A. Kaltsaty to shoot her better: "Work on the portrait - and there will be a person." So Lyudmila Gurchenko got into Carnival Night. After Carnival Night, Gurchenko became the "standard of the USSR girl." Waist - 48 centimeters, light perm. And then every Soviet fashionista dreamed of this fashionable attribute - a clutch.
When filming began, Pyryev watched each episode and, if it seemed unsuccessful, forced to reshoot. So "Ogurtsov's office" - the first meeting with a bureaucrat - was re-shot three times, until the result satisfied the director of Mosfilm. If Pyryev liked the episode, he was not afraid to praise the director.
“Gradually, I began to apply my favorite tactics to Pyryev,” says Ryazanov. - When he directively advised what I had not to my stomach, I pretended to agree. He did not dare to object - he was afraid of Pyryev. Then he went to the pavilion or editing room and did it his own way. But Ivan Alexandrovich was not one of those who could be fooled. He soon figured out my maneuvers and, calling me "quiet stubborn", continued to persevere and get his way.
Pyryev gave important tips about the rhythm and tempo of the comedy, he himself listened to the music of Anatoly Lepin. In Pyryev's office, the composer showed his songs, and Gurchenko sang them. Anatoly Yakovlevich wrote such a wonderful love song! But Pyryev listened to it and said: “The song is very good, but not for this film. And don’t quit music, use it.” The theme of this song is heard in the musical number "Dance with Umbrellas".
“Many things happened for the first time,” writes L. Gurchenko in his book. - Sound engineer Viktor Zorin recorded me in the “Song of good mood» separately from the orchestra. All the workers of the sound department came running to watch. In the tonnala, Eddie Rosner conducted the orchestra, and I sang with a simple earphone, listening to the orchestra, and supported me and inspired me music editor Raisa Aleksandrovna Lukina.
Eldar Ryazanov and the Eddie Rosner Orchestra on the set of the film Carnival Night.
Together with the artists K. Efimov and O. Grosse, the young director approached the organization of the shooting space in a new way. The picture was shot in the interiors, not in the pavilion. It was summer. The theaters went on tour. And a good half of the film was made in the corridors and foyer of the theater of the Soviet Army.
Many of the imaginative solutions were born in the process of shooting, improvisationally. For example, an episode with an unfortunate astronomy lecturer: "Is there life on Mars, is there life on Mars - this is unknown to science, science is not yet up to date." Then the Society for the Dissemination of Scientific and Political Knowledge expanded its activities. There were quite a few hacks among the lecturers who were ready to play anywhere, as long as they were paid money. So the figure of a man with a briefcase arose in Carnival Night, one might say, from life. Sergey Filippov was invited to the role of lecturer. He immediately agreed to act.
Many scenes had to be re-shot, because the production was at the same time a school for Ryazanov.
Tamara Nosova and Eldar Ryazanov on the set musical comedy"Carnival Night" (1956)
Ryazanov showed the masters excerpts from Carnival Night. Dear directors were unanimous in their assessment: the material is boring and mediocre. The conclusion of the artistic council was as follows: the only thing left is to finish shooting as soon as possible and forget about this film as a nightmare. But Pyriev still believed in young director and largely thanks to his support, Ryazanov was not removed from the production.
"Carnival Night" was completed in a record time for those times - in five months. In a small viewing room of the studio, the material was shown almost in its entirety. filmed. There were three people in the hall: Ilyinsky, Ryazanov and Gurchenko. At the end of the evening, Igor Vladimirovich said to Gurchenko: “I feel ... After this picture, you will be very popular. So get ready…”
"Carnival Night" was not expected by anyone, it was not advertised. Just came out December 28, 1956 - under New Year. The picture could not but please the audience. New Year's holiday, a cascade of music, dances, songs ... Charming young actors L. Gurchenko and Yu. Belov. Constellation famous comedians- S. Filippov, A. Tutyshkin, T. Nosova, V. Zeldin. Excellent acting youth who can do everything - sing, dance, behave naturally, at ease. Light music A. Lepin. Good songs. At the same time, as critics noted, the young director showed a remarkable sense of proportion. As soon as there was a danger that the audience would get tired of the actual concert number, it was immediately replaced by the misadventures of Ogurtsov or a lyrical insert. The funny met the sad, humor met satire, and all this went back to the feeling of "common joy", which, according to Neya Zorka's apt remark, "as if bursting out of the picture."
Critics and journalists did not skimp on praise not only to the actors, but also to Ryazanov. A director appeared, whom fate itself obliges to make a comedy movie. Carnival Night was filmed in a record five months. Despite the fact that the film was not announced, it became a hit in the next 57th year. Then it was watched by 50 million viewers. However, despite its considerable age, the film still continues to gather millions of fans.
For more than half a century, this film has been called a cult Soviet comedy. Then the film launched Eldar Ryazanov and Lyudmila Gurchenko into orbit, and the picture itself was immediately disassembled into quotes.
The premiere of the film "Carnival Night" was all-Union. In all major cities three days before the New Year. The success was overwhelming. To get to the session, the audience had to stand in line for several hours.
However, no one expected such a sensation. After all, the director of the film - Eldar Ryazanov - was an unknown documentary filmmaker, the son of a political prisoner. And in leading role- VGIK sophomore with Kharkov dialect - Lyuda Gurchenko. The script for the musical comedy has been collecting dust on the shelves of Mosfilm for three years. The young director dreamed of a drama, and flatly refused to work on a comedy, but the director of the film studio insisted on his own.
“Comrades, all of you are interested in the question, is there life on Mars? I ask everyone to look at the sky! From below, the stars appear small, small. But as soon as we take a telescope and look with an armed eye, we already see one star, two stars, three stars Best of all, of course, five stars. Whether there is life on Mars, whether there is life on Mars, this is unknown to science. Science is not up to date yet."
Lecturer
Amazing winter time! Magic holiday New Year! And the waltz and foxtrot are amazing dances!.. There is a lot of unique and beautiful in the world, and this film by Eldar Ryazanov is one of those that continue to be loved throughout its entire long history existence.
A film that gives birth to a sense of celebration, fun, kindness. When the streets and houses are decorated with colorful lights and garlands, and a spark of faith in a fairy tale creeps into the most callous hearts. Evening streets, the crunch of snow underfoot, sparkling with small sparkles, the refreshing breath of frostIt is impossible not to love this time! When there are five minutes left to make wishes to the sound of the clock and the clink of glasses. When fun and fervent laughter reigns around, and we realize how dear we are to relatives and friends, colleagues, friends, loved ones Laughter, confetti, smiles, crackers even a lecture from the club stage, which is supposed to be boring, turns into a story of unprecedented wit. And also music, and dancing, dancing, dancing.
I'll sing you a song about five minutes!
Let them sing this song of mine
Let her fly around the world
I give you this song
This song is about five minutes.
Five minutes, five minutes
The clock will strike soon!
Five minutes, five minutes
Reconcile those who are in a quarrel!
I do not believe that someone does not know the plot of this film about how too zealous and correct director of the House of Culture Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov (Igor Ilyinsky) interferes with the new year holiday. A young team led by the charming Lenochka Krylova (Lyudmila Gurchenko) is trying to prevent the carnival from turning into a boring gathering. And here is the timid Grisha Koltsov (Yuri Belov) who does not have the courage to declare his love to Lenochka.
Such is it, a movie that captivates with an example that the most humble person will be able to overcome their fears, and humor helps to live. And as if there is no pain and bitterness, suffering and fear in the world. Believe me the greatest mistake, consider their absence as naivety or stupidity. How can it be naive or stupid what people draw their strength from, what helps them resist cruelty? Never.
Five minutes, five minutes
Understand if strictly
Even in these five minutes
You can do a lot!
Five minutes, five minutes
The clock will strike soon
Reconcile those who are in a quarrel!
On the clock we have twelve minutes to five,
New Year's is probably on its way
He rushes towards us at full speed,
Soon we will say "Happy New Year!"
It's twelve minutes to five!
As a result, a lot of comical situations. Laughter to tears when comrade Ogurtsov takes Grisha's explanation, recorded on a disc, for broadcasting Shakespeare on the radio. And the lecturer, podshofe dancing lezginka! Or an orchestra team dressed up as pensioners! Secretary Tosya trying to feed her boss stuck in an elevator
You look at it and feel how your heart warms, prickly snowflakes turn into fluffy and soft snow flakes. And I want to take a handful of snow and how to throw it into the sky so that the white confetti of winter fall, on you, on people, on the earth, on everything around Let everyone have a holiday, because we have such wonderful films! After all, we have "Carnival Night".
New Year, he does not wait
He's on the threshold
Five minutes will pass
There are so few of them left.
Dear friend, hurry up -
No need to waste minutes
What is not said, say
Don't delay for a year!
People sometimes decide in five minutes
Never marry for anything
But it happens that a minute
Everything is decided very cool,
Everything changes once and for all!
Enumerate and recall the merits of the film by Eldar Ryazanov for a long time. Here and beautiful dancing, and songs that have become truly folk, and magnificent actors. About all the actors who played in the film, either good or nothing. Moreover, Ryazanov has only the first. Since each character is inimitable, I will say one word great. It cannot be otherwise. That is why to this day it sounds famous song, once sung by young Gurchenko. That is why the charm of this story does not disappear to this day.
New Year's is near
I want to wish you happiness.
Here sits a boy
Without five minutes he is a master!
Without five? Five to five!
But five minutes isn't long!
He's on the right track
His path is good.
Let them pick up this evening here and there
This song of mine about five minutes,
But while I sang a song,
Five minutes have flown by
New Year!..
The clock strikes twelve!
But is that the secret of the film? Just something in the perfect game of actors? Or extraordinarily cheerful rooms? Beautifully choreographed dance scenes? Are you sure?! Or in something else, more important and necessary? For example, in the spirituality of the film. And is it a movie? I associate the plot least of all with the film, rather with life. No, not from today, of course, but the one that our grandfathers lived. Let it be difficult, but fun, let it be difficult, but kind. That's why I want to get into the film for a little bit, well, for a little bit, for one carnival night!
New Year is coming
Happy New Year with a new happiness!
Time rushes forward
The old year no longer has power.
Let everything sing around
And blossom in the smiles of the face,
After all, that's what the New Year
To sing and have fun!
New Year is coming
Happy New Year with a new happiness!
“ The above-mentioned comrades allowed themselves to undermine my authority, for which they put a bird in my pocket But this seemed not enough to them, and they, using my direct hit in the box, under the guise of an illusion, carried me in this box through the air”
Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov
Priceless is what lives in the hearts.
