Interesting facts about the film "The Dawns Here Are Quiet"

Many talented writers were worried about the topic of the Great Patriotic War for more than a dozen years after the end of the horror that they had experienced. One of the most exciting books about the war is Boris Vasiliev's story "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", based on which the film of the same name was made. She talks about a generation swept away by the war. The picture shocks to the depths of the soul even the most persistent viewer.

“The Dawns Here Are Quiet” is a film about five of the twenty million victims of this war who died. Not just about five soldiers, but about four young and selfless girls and a Soldier. About the people behind whom and in whom the whole of Russia. When we watch pictures of war, where soldiers fall dying one after another on the battlefield, for some reason it does not touch us as much as the death of a single soldier. Not for nothing did Stalin say that "the death of one person is a tragedy, and the death of thousands of people is a statistic." The words may be harsh, but they are true.

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The Dawns Here Are Quiet was filmed in 1972 by director Stanislav Rostotsky. Rostotsky himself was born in 1922 and knows firsthand about the sorrows of the war. Participation in the Great Patriotic War left an imprint on his soul forever, which he reflected in his picture. He has many legendary films on his account, such as "White Bim Black Ear", "We'll Live Until Monday", "It Was in Penkovo", etc.

He himself went through the war, and a woman, a nurse, saved his life, pulling him, wounded, from the battlefield. She carried the soldier several kilometers in her arms. Paying tribute to his savior, Rostotsky made a picture about women in the war. In 2001, the director died. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery, not having lived only a year before the thirtieth anniversary of his film.

Rostotsky was for the actresses as foreman Vaskov was for the heroines of the film. Filming took place in difficult climatic conditions, and they endured all the hardships together. So, in the scene of passing through the swamp together with the girls every morning in the slurry with the saying "the woman sowed peas - wow!" the director was walking, slightly creaking with the prosthesis he had left after being wounded.

It was also not easy for the actresses to undress for the scene in the bathhouse, but the director, having gathered the girls, said simply and frankly: “Girls, I need to show where the bullets fall. Not in male bodies, but in female ones, which should give birth. But, as everyone remembers, there was no sex in the Soviet Union, so projectionists on the ground often cut out these famous shots.

There were many front-line soldiers in the film group, so before the actresses were approved for the role, a casting was arranged with a vote for each girl. Before Olga Ostroumova, many actresses auditioned for the role of Zhenya Komelkova. But Rostotsky opted for her. It is noteworthy that Ostroumova was the only one for whom "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" was not a debut. Prior to that, she had already managed to star in the film "We'll Live Until Monday" by the same director.

Elena Drapeko was approved for the role of Liza Brichkina. At some point, she got into trouble with Rostotsky, and he even wanted to fire her. In the end, the conflict was settled. In real life, Drapeko was, according to Fedot (Andrey Martynov), who was in love with her, a dazzling “filling apple”, a beauty, the daughter of an officer, and she had to play the red-haired village Lisa.

With each shooting, makeup was applied to the face of the actress, which “highlighted” the cheekbones and “showed” freckles. And although the actress herself believed that she had a fairly heroic character, she had to be very romantic in the frame. But today the fighter Brichkin-Drapeko sits in the State Duma.

For almost every girl, this was her first film role. Of course, no one imagined that a multi-million army of fans would fall upon them.

So, Irina Shevchuk became famous thanks to the role of Rita Osyanina. The most memorable for Irina was the scene where she was dying, having been wounded in the stomach. The actress felt the death throes of the heroine so realistically that after filming she had to be “revived”. Today Shevchuk is the director of the Open Film Festival of the CIS and Baltic countries "Kinoshock"

Ekaterina Markova fell in love with the audience as Gali Chetvertak. Few people know that this actress is currently successfully working on the creation of detective novels.

Sonya Gurvich was superbly played by Irina Dolganova, whom the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, admiring her work, presented with a Volga.

The role of Vaskov was brilliantly embodied by the closing member of the team Andrey Martynov. At first, the director had doubts about the choice of the actor, but Martynov was approved by secret ballot by the entire film crew, including illuminators and stage workers. For filming, Martynov even grew a mustache. They agreed with the director that Vaskov would have a peculiar dialect in the film - a local dialect, and since Andrei is from Ivanovo, it was enough for him to simply speak the language. The role of foreman Vaskov in the film “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” became a stellar debut for him - the 26-year-old actor played the middle-aged foreman surprisingly naturally.

The first screening of the film abroad in Venice and Sorrento made a splash. At the Rossiya cinema, there was a queue for a month. The picture became the winner of several international film festivals, and it was recognized by the American Film Academy as one of the five best world films of the year. The film received a prize at the Venice Film Festival, and a year after its release, it was nominated for an Oscar.

After watching “The Dawns Here Are Quiet”, a seemingly quite clear idea of the war is created, but we cannot understand all the torments of the fascist hell, all the drama of the war, its cruelty, senseless deaths, the pain of separated mothers with children, brothers with sisters, wives with husbands.