The episode "The Male Conversation" in a communal apartment in the movie "Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears" was filmed in an atmosphere of pure improvisation, but at the same time it was subject to strict Soviet censorship. The filming of the episode with and the alcohol happened by accident, and as the set photographer Anatoly Lomokhov recalled, the director Vladimir Menshov for a long time could not get the right mood from Alexei Batlov and Boris Smorchakov during the filming. Either itself seems too small to the manager, or vice versa, too big. But the main problem was Goshe, who could not reliably tap the dry fish on the table. According to Vladimir Menshov, Gosha did this "as if he was too sober". As a result, the operator, in secret from the players, activated the camera right during the next daily work rehearsal. This "informal" tact, where the actors behaved as naturally as possible, was the one included in the final editing of the film. According to the plot of the film, Gusha casually mentions that he lives in the area of ​​Varnadsky Avenue. However, in reality, in these quarters of the houses of Stalin and Brezhnev, there were no shared apartments. To photograph the apartment of a locksmith who went on a drinking spree, they found a real and colorful shared apartment in the historical center of Moscow - on Lyalin Lane (not far from Kursky station). Continue reading @ "post soviet secular" comes from childhood!

The episode "The Male Conversation" in a communal apartment in the movie "Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears" was filmed in an atmosphere of pure improvisation, but at the same time it was subject to strict Soviet censorship. The filming of the episode with and the alcohol happened by accident, and as the set photographer Anatoly Lomokhov recalled, the director Vladimir Menshov for a long time could not get the right mood from Alexei Batlov and Boris Smorchakov during the filming. Either itself seems too small to the manager, or vice versa, too big. But the main problem was Goshe, who could not reliably tap the dry fish on the table. According to Vladimir Menshov, Gosha did this "as if he was too sober". As a result, the operator, in secret from the players, activated the camera right during the next daily work rehearsal. This "informal" tact, where the actors behaved as naturally as possible, was the one included in the final editing of the film. According to the plot of the film, Gusha casually mentions that he lives in the area of ​​Varnadsky Avenue. However, in reality, in these quarters of the houses of Stalin and Brezhnev, there were no shared apartments. To photograph the apartment of a locksmith who went on a drinking spree, they found a real and colorful shared apartment in the historical center of Moscow - on Lyalin Lane (not far from Kursky station). Continue reading @ "post soviet secular" comes from childhood!