Most of the film masterpieces in the USSR were created in the 70s. And today, during the holidays, it is the “stagnant” films that fill the prime time of the central TV channels.
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Some of these pictures got on the screen thanks personally to Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. So, for example, officials almost put the “Prisoner of the Caucasus” on the shelf. They were outraged by Gaidai’s jokes and unpleasant associations, and the song “If I were a Sultan” was generally declared immoral. During the acceptance, the bureaucrats sat stone-faced, casting angry glances at the projectionists rolling with laughter. At the end, the chairman of the Goskino, Romanov, hissed through his teeth:
– The viewer will see this anti-Soviet only through my corpse!
It was on Friday, and on Monday Romanov congratulated the authors on awarding the tape the highest rental category. It turned out that on the weekend they called from Brezhnev, they asked for some new film. The attendant reported that there was only one rejected tape. However, the General Secretary’s family was delighted with the viewing: according to his granddaughter Vika, who often visited the editorial office of Express Newspaper in the 2000s, they watched the film at the dacha at least four times.
About the same way, Brezhnev saved “Gentlemen of Fortune”, “White Sun of the Desert”, “Belorussky Station”, “Garage” and “Pirates of the 20th Century”, calling them “the victory of Soviet cinema, which lost its nose to the West.” Which at least speaks of the sense of humor, taste and desire of the leader to promote normal democracy in the country.
The image of Leonid Ilyich himself on the screen was depicted by many stars: Evgeny Matveev, Alexander Belyavsky, Andrey Myagkov, Bogdan Stupka … the melodramas are caricatured and far from the originals. Even in the rating series “Brezhnev” with the brilliant play of Sergei Shakurov, there are so many actual blunders and deliberate foolishness that smart people might not watch it to the end.
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