the two-part TV movie “the Pokrovskie gate”, full of nostalgia for the 1950s, witty dialogue and unforgettable songs, today included in the Golden Fund of Soviet comedies. The difficulties that preceded the release of the popularly beloved film, as well as the statement made in 1974 — in the material mos.ru.
Autumn 1974. Muscovites read with interest cultural news: actor Mikhail Kozakov — Jack Bearden from the movie “All the king’s men”, Charles from “Murder on Dante street”, Pedro Zurita from “fish-Man” — debut as a Director. In the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, where he came two years ago, the actor puts the play “the Pokrovskie gate” based on the famous play by Leonid Zorin. His works were staged in the best theaters of the country, and the name was on everyone’s lips.
a Comedy about the inhabitants of Moscow communal was written based on the biography of the playwright, when he came to Moscow, rented a checkpoint in a communal room on the Petrovsky Boulevard, where he met with the prototypes of his characters (cheerful student Kostik Romin cheated with yourself). That the neighbors are not offended, something has changed, for example Petrovsky Boulevard on the Pokrovskie gate.
Zorin did not object to a play set of the Cossacks. He did not doubt the presence of actor talent that had yet to prove himself. The only thing asked the playwright, giving his play Kosakowo, — that he carefully approached the choice of the actors.
the Role of Kostik Romin in different compositions played two brilliant actor — debutant Ruben Simonov and Alexander Kotov, who here didn’t get more main roles. In Margarita Pavlovna turned star Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, Lyudmila Khmelnitskaya and debutante Lyudmila Bogdanova. The audience loved the show, and he never left the repertoire for several seasons.
the Play “the Pokrovskie gate” became a call for Kozakov. A few years earlier, he brought to television a play by the Romanian author Mihail Sebastian’s “Nameless star” and offered to make a statement. First he gave permission, but then the drama with Igor Kostolevsky and Anastasia Vertinskaya lay on the shelf. However, the reason was not directing, and the allegedly obscene content of a play itself. Then, in 1974, the Cossacks did not know that his “Nameless star” still to come — four years later, in the form of a two-part television movie.
Path to the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya began with a performance by Anatoly Efros, and he proposed Kosakowo to play a major role in “don Juan”. It was in 1972, by that time, he has worked at the Mayakovsky Theater, where he became famous in the role of hamlet, and the Sovremennik and the Moscow art Theater. Oleg Yefremov was very pleased with the actor, they were friends. The Cossacks played in his SPectable “Forever living” (second edition), “Cyrano de Bergerac”, the play “Valentin and Valentina” on the play by Mikhail Roshchin, and many others.
in Parallel with the work in the theater Kozak starred in many movies. By 1974, when he staged “the Pokrovskie gate”, behind his back was more than 20 works in the movies.
“I Have a lot of ideas and work.” Konstantin Bogomolov — about the new life of the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya
after Leaving the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya in 1981, remembered their Kozakov “Pokrovsk gate”. He turned to Leonid Zorin — now to write the script. It was then that Zorin has written in the text of the phrase that later became winged: “And don’t slam us for a shot?”, “Note, I suggested it!”, “To cut to hell, without peritonitis” and others. Now “the Pokrovskie gate” was riddled with a total nostalgia Zorin and Kozakov, much they invented together.
first, the Cossacks wanted to take one of the roles the favorite of the audience of Andrei Mironov. But he changed his mind when the actor is almost approved. At the last moment, he decided: don’t need stars, inhabitants of the communal supposed to play the most famous artists. For the same reason abandoned candidates Nikita Mikhalkov and Natalia gundarevoj, preferring them not quite star Inna Ulyanov and Victor Bortsova. Only the role of the artist Musictrade Arcadia Velor, which everyone knows, he called a national celebrity Leonid Armour, Muller from “17 moments of spring”.
Elena Koreneva, who played the nurse in the Letter, at first, refused to shoot. The script seemed to her some operetta. To persuade the actress had the second Director of the film — Natalia Koreneva, her mother. Over time, Koreneva saw in its naive heroine, ready to regret the dead in the nineteenth century, writers and poets, sincerity is inherent in the people of that time. Did not like the script at first, and Anatoly Ravikovich, the actor chobotov. The actor described the situation in which his character, contrived to remain after the divorce to live with the custody of his ex-wife and her new husband? This only happens in the books, believed Ravikovich.
Inna Ulyanov (Margarita khobotova) after filming gave Kosakowo medal “For the rescue of drowning”, explaining that to meet him is literally buried — as an actress. Grateful was and Yevgeny Morgunov, which the Cossacks were invited to a small role Soy “serious poet who writes bad poetry.” The actor stressed that Soy is one of his best roles.
the Real problem was Kostik Romin. The role of this attractor anybody tried it, but Kosakowo didn’t like any of the candidates, even his own son. And who knows who would have eventually played Romina, if not a writer Regina Bykov, who on tfrom the time was the wife of the Director. She accidentally saw in an obscure movie Oleg Menshikov and said about him to her husband. It was approved after the first sample. Oleg was then still a student at the Theatre school named after Schepkin. Grown-up Kostya, played Cossacks.
First, the “Mosfilm” were forbidden to remove “the Pokrovskie gate”. The guide explained the position that it should not be such a nostalgia to remember the time of the Khrushchev to Brezhnev. But then put a condition: the resolution will, if the Cossacks will play Felix Dzerzhinsky in “Syndicate-2”.
the filming of a movie about KGB RAID the Cossacks came up with thoughts on “the Pokrovskie gate”, the shooting of which was to approach every day. But after the release of “Syndicate” there is a new condition: he was asked to play Dzerzhinsky in two movies — “State border” and “December 20”. For work in the past they even gave him the national award.
But “the Pokrovskie gate” still did not want to endorse. Had to persuade Sophia Pilyavskoy creativity which Mosfilmovskaya boss is very respected. Kozak and his team won. First, immediately after the release, the film has not received great success is a true recognition came to him over time. Today he is considered one of the key movies of the late-Soviet cinema.
