The history of Russian cinema. Caucasian captive

1. “The history of Russian cinema” Mnatsakanyan Armen School №26 Form 10

2. A little bit about myself

My
name is Armen. I'm
sixteen. My favourite film is
«A prisoner of Caucasus».
It`s a very wonderful
comedy. So I like it
because some episodes
were shot in our place.

3.

4. Story of creation

The
idea of the film was born
after a screenwriter Leonid
Gaidai read in a newspaper
story about the abduction of a
girl, who one Caucasian loved
in the one of the
Transcaucasian Republic.

5. Shooting

Despite the film's title and the images the most part
of the film wasn’t filmed in the Caucasus .
Main locations were in the center of Alushta valley of
Ghosts at the foot of Demerdzhi. In addition in the film
there are scenes shot in the city of Simferopol (the
mental hospital), on the top of AI-Petri and the
Caucasus, in the Adler district of Sochi in the Mzymta
river (mountain river, where Nina saved Shurik)

6. Actors:

Alexander Demyanenko is Shurik, a
folklorist.
Natalya Varley is Nina, a student.
Vladimir Etush is a comrade Saahov.
Frunzik Mkrtchyan is Gabriel, the Nina's
uncle and a chauffeur of a comrade
Saahov.
Ruslan Akhmetov is Edward, the driver of
"Ambulance“..
Georgiy Vitsin Is a Coward.
Yuri Nikulin is a Dunce.
Yevgeny Morgunov is a Seasoned.

7. Salary

Leonid Gaidai — 6140 rubles (RUB 4140 for shooting plus 2000 rubles per script);
Alexander Demyanenko — 5220 RUB (74 days of shooting, 10 days dubbing);
Yuri Nikulin — 4238. (43 shooting day 6 — the scoring);
Georgi Vitsin — 3389 RUB (34 days of shooting, 5 — voicing);
Yevgeny Morgunov — 1979,50 RUB (29 days of shooting, 5 — voicing);
Vladimir Etush — 1800 RUB (24 days of shooting, 6 — voicing);
Natalya Varley — 1219,24 RUB (Nadezhda Rumyantseva for the scoring role for 7 days received 237,50 RUB.);
Ruslan Akhmetov — RUB 1031,78. (31 day, 6 — voicing);
Frunzik Mkrtchyan — 939 RUB (24 days of shooting, 4 — voicing);
Nina Grebeshkova — 279,40 RUB (5 days of shooting, 7 — voicing);
Mikhail Gluzsky — 194,80 RUB (2 days shooting, 2 — voicing).

8. Movie plot in brief

Shura was going to visit one of the republics of the mountains to collect a
folklore. The hero Shura fell in love to “a sportswoman, a student, and just a
beautiful girl.“Her name was Nina. But suddenly she was abducted for marry.
Naive Shurik immediately found Nina everywhere for the rescue from the old
Caucasian . He wanted to help “ A prisoner of the Caucasus"..

9. On the set broke up the trio Vitsin — Morgunov — Nikulin.

Actors weren’t friends. During the film Morgunov began to behave shamelessly . Once he
brought a girl to the film ground and Gaidai asked to leave all outsiders out of the room. The
girl wanted to get up but Morgunov stopped her and said, that it doesn't apply to her.
Morgunov said her that she isn`t a stranger. After that were a lot of changes in the final
scenes of the film. Then Gaidai took of the film without of Morgunov. Nikulin and Vitsin stayed
in the film.

10. The appearance of the characters in the movies.

In 1996 was born a musical film "Old
songs about the main 2“. It had a big
success. Aleksandr Demyanenko and
Natalya Varley re-performed the role
of Shurik and Nina in one of the
scenes.

11. A remake

In 2014 published a remake for a new film “A prisoner of
the Caucasus!". The film became one of the greatest
failures in the history of Russian cinema. With a budget
about $ 3.5 million fees it amounted nearly 180
thousand dollars. The rankings kinopoisk.ru showed that
the film scored 1.1 points out of a possible 10. It was the
worst movies in history of cinema.

12. Good Comedy I as like the old comedy film as all people of our great country. To my mind it is a national film , that was taken

in our region.

13. Thank you for your attention!