Interesting features of the film "The meeting place cannot be changed"
We will tell you a few little-known facts about the film "The meeting place cannot be changed", which will show the difference between two presentations of one work on film and on paper.
1. Of course, almost all the characters have differences from the real actors who played these roles.
2. But here you will find the most striking differences between book characters and their screen incarnations.
3. By the way, in the film, Sergeant Sinichkina bears the greatest external resemblance to Varvara from the book. The only difference is that in the book she has different colored eyes — one gray, and the other with a greenish tint.
4. In the book. Gleb Zheglov: twenty-five years old, Komsomol member. Tall, agile, agile, quick brown eyes bulging. Dark skin, blue-black hair. Very broad in the shoulders. In cinema…
5. In the book. Vladimir Sharapov is a blond man with very thick hair, one of the front teeth is chipped or missing. He has a snub nose and small (in his opinion) eyes. In the cinema, the prototype of Sharapov's appearance was Vladimir Arapov, an employee of MOORE, who later became his boss.
6. In the book. Carp, a hunchback, is a middle—aged man with a flat face. Very thin, tightly compressed lips. Red eyelids. White sore gums, rotten teeth. Long gnarled hands, dry fingers.
7. In the book. Mikhail Mikhailovich Bomze — small arms and legs with a massive torso, a small bald head. In cinema…
8. In the book. The decoy Anya is about twenty—two years old, an elongated white face, a short snub nose, two steel fixings in her mouth. Dyed blonde hair. In cinema…
9. In the book. Loshak is the driver of a bread van with a license plate "MG 38-03". Cartilaginous long face, for which he got his nickname. In cinema…
10. In the book. Sergey Levchenko is broad—shouldered, with a bestial gypsy face. In cinema…
11. An example of the difference of another, no less colorful "animated" character. In the book. Patched-patched bus "Opel-Blitz", called by the Murovians "Ferdinand". In cinema. ZiS-8…
12. And briefly about the more famous, plot differences. The most important thing is the final. In The Era of Mercy, Varvara Sinichkina is killed by a bandit. In "The meeting place cannot be changed" Sinichkina remains alive, having managed to demobilize and pick up the "foundling" from the maternity hospital.
13. The "bed scene" between Varvara Sinichkina and Vladimir Sharapov is present in the novel of the Viners. In the cinema, for obvious reasons, it was not filmed.
14. The background of Sharapov's acquaintance with Levchenko and another "flashback" scene during their nightly dialogue in "thieves raspberry" were also not included in the series.
15. Initially, seven episodes of screen time were filmed, but Gosteleradio refused to buy two series from the Odessa Film Studio. Stanislav Govorukhin had to rewire the film, squeezing into it some of the "extra" footage.
16. According to many critics, this made the film more dynamic.
Keywords: Actors | Book | Soviet cinema | Film