On November 11, 1979, the first episode of the movie "The Meeting Place Can't Be Changed" was screened on Central Television.
The premiere of the film was scheduled to coincide with Police Day. Now it's hard to believe, but among those who did not accept the film "The Meeting Place Can't Be Changed" were the authors of the script - the Weiner brothers, who did not agree with Stanislav Goborukhin's director's intervention in the dramatic outline of the novel and asked to remove their names from the credits.
However, after the magical and all-unifying success of the film, at the initiative of the screenwriters, their names were returned to the film's credits. But the most amazing thing about this story, a film that is known by word of mouth to more than one generation of Russians, and the lines of the characters have been added to the dictionaries of phrases and anecdotes, it has no film awards (the filmmakers received certificates of honor from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Vladimir Vysotsky was posthumously awarded the role of Captain Zaglov).
Although Ladimir Vysotsky immediately secured the role of Captain Zhaglov from the Weiner brothers, during discussions the screenwriters made assessments in relation to other artists - for example, Sergey Shakurov and Nikolai Govenko were considered as possible candidates for the role of Gleb Georgievich.
The sudden death of the adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, Lt. Col. Konstantin Nikitin, slightly complicated the transfer of the film, as the members of the receiving committee, who came in his place, raised their own complaints: "Are you crazy? You want the whole Soviet Union to talk about thieves, thieves and prostitutes? An ambiguous situation arose: the film was not openly banned and at the same time was not accepted. Nevertheless, after the hiatus, mainstream television included the film in its broadcast schedule, timing the premiere to coincide with Police Day.
Later we will tell you: how Larisa Odovich became a Bond cleaner, who was used for the role of the thief Rick, how Vysotsky found an actor for the role of Fox, about this and much more in the publications below.
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