Crown of the Russian Empire, or Elusive Again

Crown of the Russian Empire, or Elusive Again
Crown of the Russian Empire, or Elusive Again
Genre	Adventure , History , Action
Producer	Edmond Keosayan
Author; script	Edmond Keosayan ; Alexander Chervinsky
In the main; cast	Mikhail Metelkin ; Victor Kosykh ; Vasily Vasiliev ; Valentina Kurdyukova
Operator	Mikhail Ardabyevsky
Composer	Jan Frenkel
Film company	Film studio Mosfilm . Experimental Creative Association
Duration	134 min.
A country	the USSR
Tongue	Russian
Year	1971
Previous movie	New elusive adventures
IMDb	ID 0067313

"The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Again Elusive " is a Soviet two-part adventure feature film, staged at the Moscow Order of the Lenin Film Studio "Mosfilm" in 1971 by director Edmond Keosayan . The last movie in the Elusive Avengers trilogy. The film premiered on December 14, 1971 ^[1] . According to a survey of film critics conducted by the newspaper Sovetskaya Kultura , the film was named one of the worst films released in 1971 ^[2] .

Content

Story

The action takes place in 1924 ^[3] . The main characters after the civil war serve in the OGPU . Despite the fact that the Soviet regime unconditionally defeated, the new regime still has irreconcilable enemies. Among them are “old acquaintances” of the main characters - Ataman Burnash, staff captain Ovechkin, Colonel Kudasov and Lieutenant Perov, who are in exile in Paris and are developing a plan to steal from the Soviet Museum of the Great Imperial Crown . According to the main legend of the conspirators, the crown is necessary for the coronation of the new Sovereign, whose throne is claimed by two crazy types who pretend to be members of the Romanov family .

The head of the abductors, an intelligent and prudent politician and adventurer, the Frenchman Monsieur Duc, is conspiring with the White Guards . Their goal is to steal the crown, but to sell it to America instead of coronation. With this, Monsieur Duke plans to kill two birds with one stone. His plans include accusing the Bolshevik regime of robbing the public domain in order to discredit the Soviet regime in the international arena.

To divert his eyes, Ovechkin hires Prince Naryshkin, a well-known swindler and thief who specializes in stealing palace jewelry. Ovechkin succeeds while Burnash and Naryshkin were closely monitored by the Chekists , stealing the crown imperceptibly and, hiding in the Odessa catacombs , wait for the steamer on which his accomplices are located.

In the midst of the operation, the former head of counterintelligence, Colonel Kudasov, who unraveled Duke’s plan, falls out of the well-thought-out plan. He decides to single-handedly sell the crown and get all the dividends, but he is going to do it with the help of two silly heirs, not realizing that Duke and Perov and Ovechkin already have completely different plans. Despite all the intrigues, the “elusive” destroy the cunning plans of Monsieur Duke and return the crown to the museum.

Starring

Mikhail Metelkin - Valera Meshcheryakov
Victor Kosykh - Danka Schus
Vasily Vasiliev - Yashka Tsygankov
Valentina Kurdyukova - Ksanka Schus
Ivan Pereverzev - Smirnov, Head of the OGPU
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan - Peter Sergeevich Ovechkin, staff captain
Vladimir Ivashov - Lieutenant Perov, adjutant Kudasova
Vladislav Strzhelchik - Prince Naryshkin
Arkady Tolbuzin - Colonel Leopold Sergeevich Kudasov
Yefim Kopelyan - Ataman Gnat Burnash

Cast

Vladimir Belokurov - the shaggy "emperor"
Rolan Bykov - the bald "emperor"
Jan Frenkel - Garson Louis-Leonid, former violinist from the Palace restaurant ( voiced by Artyom Karapetyan )
Lyudmila Gurchenko - Agrafena Zavolzhskaya, chansonette from the restaurant
Andrei Fait - Monsieur Duke
Edmond Keosayan - nimble brunette
Grigory Shpigel - photographer
Nina Agapova - an American with a parrot
Jacob Lenz - an old man who knew everything (the role was voiced by George Millar )
Victor Fainleib - watchmaker Boris Borisovich
Artyom Karapetyan - Indian
Jacob Belenky - Scot
Laura Gevorgyan (as L. Keosayan) - Sister of Mercy of the Penitent Magdalen Hospital
Anatoly Garagulya - captain of Gloria ( voiced by Felix Yavorsky )

In the episodes

Zoya Isaeva - a lady in mourning
Lyudmila Karaush - Zizi, former maid of honor
Larisa Pashkova - Francoise, wife of Louis Leonid
Danuta Stolyarskaya - lady in green
David Keosayan - a homeless child
Alla Budnitskaya - lady at the coronation and on the Gloria steamboat
Irakli Khizanishvili - an emigrant
Zana Zanoni - Indian
Lavrentiy Masokha - an emigrant
Galina Mikeladze - lady
Yuri Martynov - officer in Cherkessk
Zoya Zemnukhova - “Empress”
Lev Polyakov - one-eyed officer
Nikolai Grabbe - Borya "Lazy"
Georgy Tusuzov - guide
Mikhail Selyutin - assistant to Smirnov
Alexander Lavrenyuk
Yu. Popko
Sergey Potikyan
Sergey Stetsenko
V. Matisen
Rita Merino
Gennady Morozov
A. Vanetsian ( film sound engineer )
A. S. Lipnitsky
A. Vladimirov
G. Kharkevich
Grigory Pozhenyan
Leon Kocharyan
L. Polyakova

The credits do not indicate:

Elizabeth Auerbach - lady at the shelter
Lilita Berzin - an old lady
Ivan Bychkov - a man at the window with a crown
M. Goldovsky - restaurant visitor
Evgeny Gurov - visitor to the restaurant
Vadim Gusev - White Guard
Lyudmila Davydova - lady
Kunna Ignatova - Georgian Princess in a restaurant
Lyubov Kolyuzhnaya - a woman at the window with a crown
Viktor Kolpakov - guide in the train
Valentin Kulik - Pimp
Nikolay Misailov - an elderly musician in a plaid suit and hat
A. Petrov - an excursionist in the museum
Gleb Plaksin - restaurant visitor
Mikhail Rozanov - a guy at the window with a crown
Boris Rudnev - Chekist
Ivan Savkin - visitor to the restaurant
Oleg Savosin - member of the retinue
Svetlana Svetlichnaya - lady, visitor to the restaurant
Stanislav Chekan - a man from the retinue of one of the "emperors"
Tigran Keosayan , Galina Samokhina

Film crew

Screenplay - Edmond Keosayan , Alexander Chervinsky
Production by Edmond Keosayan
Director of photography - Mikhail Ardabyevsky
Artists - Levan Shengelia , Savet Agoyan
Composer - Jan Frenkel
Sound Engineer - Artashes Vanetian
Conductor - Emin Khachaturian
Lyrics - Sergey Yesenin , Robert Rozhdestvensky , Emil Radov
Costume Designer - M. Shengelia
Director - M. Tumanishvili
Operators - G. Polyanok, A. Mirumyan
Combined Shooting:
Operator - German Shimkovich
Artist - S. Mukhin
Assistants:
Director - T. Kozlova, L. Keosayan, N. Golovina
Operator - Yu. Nevsky
Make-up artist - T. Krylova
Montage - L. Janzian
Military Consultant - Major General M. Metelkin
Editor - Lyubov Tsitsina
Director of the film - Raymond Janazyan

Video Edition

In the 1980s, the Goskino USSR Video Program released video cassettes with this film. In 1990, released by the cinema association "Close-up". Also in Russia in the 1990s, the film was distributed on VHS by the distributor of Vista Home Video .

Notes

↑ “The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Elusive Again” on the site “Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema”
↑ Fedor Razzakov. Life is a wonderful time. 1970-1974 Time, events, people. - M .: Eksmo , 2004. - S. [467] (stb. 1). - 1104 s. - 4000 copies - ISBN 5-699-05394-8 .
↑ Two main points point to this year: 1) the excitement with the coronation - an allusion to the proclamation of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich himself Emperor of All Russia (August 31, 1924). 2) the activities of Monsieur Duke as an adversary of the possible recognition by France of the USSR (held October 28, 1924). At the same time, the newspaper Vozrozhdenie , which is read by Danka and Valerika in the restaurant Kornilov, began to be published only in 1926.

Links

History of filming
“Crown of the Russian Empire” on YouTube - one-part (export) version
Full Crown of the Russian Empire Series 1 movie on YouTube
Full Crown Russian Empire Series 2 movie on YouTube
Channel "Russia" // "Crown of the Russian Empire, or Elusive Again." X / f
The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Again Elusive (English) on the Internet Movie Database
Songs by Jan Frenkel from the new Elusive Series. The Horizon Magazine (No. 12, 1970)

[1] “The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Elusive Again” on the site “Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema”

[2] Fedor Razzakov. Life is a wonderful time. 1970-1974 Time, events, people. - M .: Eksmo , 2004. - S. [467] (stb. 1). - 1104 s. - 4000 copies - ISBN 5-699-05394-8 .

[3] Two main points point to this year: 1) the excitement with the coronation - an allusion to the proclamation of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich himself Emperor of All Russia (August 31, 1924). 2) the activities of Monsieur Duke as an adversary of the possible recognition by France of the USSR (held October 28, 1924). At the same time, the newspaper Vozrozhdenie , which is read by Danka and Valerika in the restaurant Kornilov, began to be published only in 1926.