Running (film, 1970)

1920 year The civil war in southern Russia is nearing completion. After the offensive of the Red Army in Crimea , the outcome of all those who sought salvation from the "cursed days" (the term of Ivan Bunin ) of the revolution begins.

In this terrible current, a variety of people find themselves near - defenseless Serafima Korzukhina and regimental lady Lyuska, privat-docent Golubkov and General Khludov. Thrown into the "cockroach run" of Istanbul's emigration life, losing ground under their feet, Russian intellectuals are on the verge of death. The last chance to save Seraphim from appalling poverty is the trip of Golubkov and General Charnotha to Paris to search for her escaped husband. Hopeless, as it seemed, the company leads to unexpected results.

Starring

• Lyudmila Savelyeva - Serafima Vladimirovna Korzukhina, wife of a friend of the Minister of Trade
• Alexey Batalov - Sergey Pavlovich Golubkov, Privat-docent of St. Petersburg University
• Mikhail Ulyanov - Grigory Lukyanovich Charnota, General
• Tatyana Tkach - Lyuska Korsakova
• Vladislav Dvorzhetsky - Roman Valeryanovich Khludov, general (prototype - General Slashchev )
• Evgeny Evstigneev - Paramon Ilyich Korzukhin, Comrade Minister of Trade of Crimea

Cast

• Roman Khomyatov - Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze , commander of the Southern Red Front
• Vladimir Zamansky - Baev, commander of the red regiment
• Nikolay Olyalin - Krapilin, Westman
• Bruno Freindlich - white commander in chief (prototype - Baron Pyotr Nikolaevich Wrangel )
• Vladimir Osenev - Quiet, White Counterintelligence
• Alexander Yanvaryov - Golovan, Yesaul (adjutant Khludova)
• Vladimir Basov - Arthur Arturovich, “Cockroach Tsar”
• Tamara Loginova - Marya Konstantinovna, cashier
• Oleg Efremov - White Guard Colonel
• Alyosha Naumov - Petka Scheglov
• Pavel Springfeld - Skunsky, White Counterintelligence
• Nikolay Sergeev - undertaker

In episodes

• Natalya Varley - a girl with a goat
• Pavel Vinnik - White Counterintelligence
• Konstantin Voinov - General Kravchenko
• Mikhail Gluzsky - White Staff Captain
• Nikolai Gorlov - Bishop of Africa (prototype Bishop Benjamin (Fedchenkov) )
• Michaela Drozdovskaya - modist
• Valery Zolotukhin - pop singer
• Alfred Zinoviev - Paisiy
• Naum Korzhavin - sprechstalmeister of the Istanbul circus
• Nikolay Kutuzov - hegumen of the Kirillovsky monastery near Berislav
• Dmitry Orlovsky - telegraph operator
• Yuri Potemkin - a man from the funeral team
• Vladimir Protasenko - brigade commander
• Gottlieb Roninson - Greek Voluptuous
• George Svetlani - professor with double bass
• Sergey Torkachevsky - cadet
• Stanislav Khitrov - Antoine Grishchenko, servant Korzukhin
• Nikolay Yudin - monk
• Anatoly Yabbarov - soldier with coffins

• Script writers:
  • Alexander Alov
  • Vladimir Naumov
• Stage Directors:
  • Alexander Alov
  • Vladimir Naumov
• Chief Operator: Levan Paatashvili
• Chief Artist: Alexey Parkhomenko
• Artists:
  • Natalya Parkhomenko
  • K. Stepanov
• Composer: Nikolay Karetnikov
• Costumes: Lydia Novi
• Installation: Tamara Zubrova
• Sound: Roland Ghazaryan
• Literary consultant: Elena Bulgakova
• Military consultants:
  • Army General Ivan Pavlovsky
  • Lieutenant General Nikolai Oslikovsky
  • Major General N. Molotkov
• Historical costume consultant Maria Mertsalova
• Director of the picture: Mikhail Amirajibi

Preparing for filming

• The original script was called "Dreams of Russia", which was then replaced by "The Path to the Abyss", from which they returned to the author's - "Running" ^[1] .
• For the film crew, a private viewing of the film Doctor Zhivago banned in the USSR (1965, directed by David Lin ) was arranged ^{[2] [3]} .
• The film was consulted by Elena Bulgakova (the third wife and muse of Mikhail Bulgakov ), whom Naumov called a beautiful mystical woman. He told her: “I don’t understand our relationship, dream or reality? ..” ^[2] . According to him, Elena Sergeyevna was the link between the film crew and Mikhail Afanasevich ^[1] .
• It was Elena Sergeyevna who came up with the scene for the film, in which the undertaker with his teeth pulls a black glove from his hand, runs a finger on the cheek of one of the white officers and says: “You need to shave, otherwise it will be impossible to shave the dead!” ^[1]
• The question of which film to shoot the film on (foreign for a two-part tape is unprofitable, and the domestic came in marriage), was decided in favor of the domestic wide-format film ^[1] .
• In the final play of the 1928 sample , Khludov, Seraphim and Golubkov returned to Russia. In the revised version of the author of 1937, Khludov , remaining in Constantinople, fires a bullet in his forehead. Screenwriters of the film chose the open finale: the lone figure of Khludov looking into the sea distance, surrounded by stray dogs ^[1] .
• In a scene on a train, Khludov asks his adjutant, Yesaul Golovan, to read the Bible aloud to him. Golovan replies that he is illiterate, which in reality could hardly have been, given his rank and position.

Actors

• Without samples for the roles, Evgeny Evstigneev and Mikhail Ulyanov were approved ^[1] .
• Actor Gleb Strizhenov was approved and began acting in the role of Khludov. However, some time later this role was given to the Omsk actor Vladislav Dvorzhetsky , who had previously auditioned for the role of Golubkov (it was later played by Alexei Batalov ) ^[1] .
• The shooting of the scene of the card game was shot in the cold pavilion of Mosfilm at night (this was the only time when Evstigneev and Ulyanov could make time after the evening performances) ^[1] .
• Director Vladimir Naumov in a documentary film (directed by Natalia Naumova ) recalls how the scene of a card game was made, in which General Charnota defeats Korzukhin:

Evstigneev is an impromptu person who quickly lights up and quickly gets tired of monotony, while Ulyanov, on the contrary, blooms more and more with each new rehearsal, so to speak, he will taste and enjoy. It turned out that each of them was going in its direction, one faded away, the second flared up.

To solve the problem and coordinate the actors' play, Naumov and Alov had to distract Evstigneev with a beautiful actress and tea, and imitate Evstigneev himself, warming up Ulyanov. At the right time, Evstigneev was released and a wonderful scene was produced.

• Evgeny Evstigneev during the filming used every opportunity to take a nap. If a break was announced for four minutes, he slept three of them ^[4] .
• In the film, Valery Zolotukhin plays the role of a pop singer in a restaurant performing a song based on poems by Igor Severyanin in the manner of Alexander Vertinsky . The choice of a song almost before the end of filming remained unobvious - we chose between “It was by the sea” and “ Pineapples in champagne ”. It got to the point that two pieces of paper with the names of the texts were folded into tubes and Evgeny Evstigneev pulled out the one that read “It was by the sea” ^[5] .

Location

• For the filming of Khludov’s dreams, the salt lake Baskunchak , Astrakhan region was supposed. Cameraman Levan Paatashvili recalls:

This is an endless expanse of dazzling white salt, like an ice sheet. When the summer sun went down to the horizon, long kilometer shadows appeared on the white surface from figures and objects, and it looked like a dream. Nature was perfect for us, but, unfortunately, in this “desert” there were no military units necessary for mass scenes. Finally, after a long search, I unexpectedly found a nature with an unusually interesting texture. These were the Lyubertsy quarries where sand is mined for construction - large-scale piles of strange configurations of sandy embankments that go deep into the depths. We were able to create a harmony of color, light and form on the material of this nature, highlighting only certain dramatic moments. Here we shot all the dreams of Khludov and the main battle scenes with the Red Army ^[2] .

• Winter scenes in the monastery and in the forest (at the beginning and at the end of the film) were shot in the Savvino-Storozhevsky monastery and its district, near Zvenigorod near Moscow .
• The scenes of forcing Sivash were filmed near Sevastopol ^{[2] [3]} .
• The general plans of Constantinople without actors were shot in Istanbul "underground" due to the lack of permission of religious organizations. The shooting was on a hand-held camera, so as not to be considered professional. Due to the discharged battery, it was possible to shoot not 24 frames per second, but 10-12 ^{[1] [2]} .
• The city scenery of Constantinople was shot in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv , partly in the scenery on Mosfilm ^{[2] [3]} .
• The scene where the hero of Mikhail Ulyanov in underpants is walking along city streets was filmed in Paris . At the same time, the actor in his last few surprised ^{[1] [2]} .
• A number of scenes were shot on the territory of the Novospassky monastery in Moscow.

Shooting Details

• For the actor Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, work on the role of Khludov began with a scene in the train compartment (Khludov is delirious, he is haunted by the ghost of a hanged soldier) ^[1] .
• The scene when a horseman raises a fallen red banner from the ground was taken from one take (the shooting took place in Transcarpathia, where the shooting of the film Waterloo directed by Sergey Bondarchuk had just ended, and the horses were so exhausted that they refused to act) ^[2] .
• At the end of filming in Paris, it was necessary to sign the final act on the expenses of the film crew with a lawyer who put his signature on the documents: “I confirm with my honor that all expenses were made correctly.” I had to explain that the Union did not know about the “world-famous law firm” and only a stamp was needed for an accountant. The French lawyer was offended, but still managed to put the necessary stamp ^[4] .
• Both “trainers” and “cybernetics” were unsuccessfully involved in organizing the filming of the cockroach scene, until they remembered home cockroaches that always run away into the dark when the lights are turned on. For filming on the pool table, small drawers with shutters, covered with black velvet, were arranged. The design worked exceptionally accurately ^[2] .

The fate of the film

• In 1971, the film "Run" participated in the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival .

• Color, sound, widescreen .
• The film was shot on a 70-mm wide-format color negative film LN-7 and DS-5. Separate episodes were shot on black and white film ^[2] .

• "Run". Dreams about Russia . The documentary . Author and host: Alexander Kazakevich. Director: Konstantin Golenchik. Participating in the film: director Vladimir Naumov , film expert Irina Pavlova, film critic Svetlana Khokhryakova. LLC Studio Neophyt by order of VGTRK. 2019 GTRK "Culture" . 06/17/2019. 45 minutes.

• Levan Paatashvili . How "Running" was shot. View of the operator (Russian) // "Technique and technology of cinema": magazine. - 2005. - No. 1 .

• Levan Paatashvili . Half a century against the wall of Leonardo. From the experience of the camera profession . - M.,: "625", 2006. - 272 p. - ISBN 5-901778-05-7 .

• "Running" on the site "Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema"
• "Run" on Ruskino.ru
• " Running ” on the Internet Movie Database