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“Watch out for the car”: how the GAZ-21 chase was filmed The Volga is considered one of the most valuable items in the collection of the Mosfilm retro-car museum. The machine starred in many famous Soviet films, without which we can not imagine that era. She made her 21st debut in the comedy of Eldar Ryazanov about car thefts "Watch out for the car" (1966). Surely you will remember a vivid scene of a police officer chasing Yuri Detochkin, as well as spectacular stunts with the participation of the Volga - in one of the scenes, the car, hiding in a cuvette, quickly rolls back into the track in reverse. The feeling that all this does not give the car and its driver any trouble. In reality, the crew had to use ingenuity to realize the director’s idea. The Volga itself on such a steep slope, of course, could not leave - the strength is not enough (engine capacity is 2.5 l and 75 l. From., - Prim ZR). Therefore, I had to pick up a barely noticeable thin cable to it and tow it to the road with it.
And what are you ready for the Volga?
By the way, the most “honest thief”, played by Innokenty Smoktunovsky, had to get a driver’s license to participate in the film. Without driving skills, the main role was simply not given to the actor. According to the staff of Mosfilm, Smoktunovsky liked the car so much that at the end of the shoot he bought himself one, and told his friends that the Volga was the best car he had ever seen.
Shot from the set of the film "Watch out for the car" Shot from the set of the film "Watch out for the car" |
Shot from the set of the film "Watch out for the car" Shot from the set of the film "Watch out for the car" |
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Without business in the garage of Mosfilm, the Volga did not stand idle for a long time, and after the first bright appearance on the screen, it appeared in a number of famous films. For the Soviet man, the GAZ-21 is, first of all, a taxi car. It was from this that many directors who used the car in the frame repelled subsequently. Take, for example, the melodrama Three Poplars on Plyushchikha (1967) by Tatyana Lioznova about a chance meeting between an intelligent taxi driver Sasha (Oleg Efremov) and a simple village woman Nyura (Tatyana Doronina). Here, the car plays almost the main role along with eminent actors. For this film, the appearance of the Volga was slightly changed: checkers were glued to the sides of the machine, repainted from beige to light green.
The next time, in the image of a taxi, the GAZ-21 appears in the film “Diamond Hand” (1969) by Leonid Gaidai, for whom the car again becomes beige. Years later, the car changed color to gray, and a flying deer figure was placed on its hood. In this form, the Volga took part in the filming of the film "Poisons, or World History of Poisoning" (2001) by Karen Shakhnazarov.
Do you know that in the film “Diamond Hand” two Volga were shot at once? One was led by actor Vladimir Gulyaev, the performer of the role of police lieutenant Volodya. The inimitable Anatoly Papanov with his “who ordered a taxi to Dubrovka?” Also drives the Volga, but this is another car - an earlier release.
In the prime of life
Despite its impressive track record, the Mosfilm Volga is not bad preserved - the very case when you can say about the car "not broken, but painted." GAZ-21 was purchased in the mid-60s from the factory in order to go directly to the set. This is the third series of such machines - they are popularly called the "whalebone" - due to the peculiar structure of the radiator grille.
In general, the “twenty-first” has undergone qualitative changes several times. From its predecessors, the third series is distinguished not only by a more elegant appearance, but also the filling in the form of a 75-horsepower engine. Older versions of the GAZ-21 boasted only 70 "horses". The heroine of our history weighs about 1.5 tons and has a three-speed manual gearbox with a control lever on the steering wheel, although such machines were produced, including on the machine.
The colors are not the same …
In his spare time from the filming, the Volga is in the Mosfilm Museum of Retro Cars. In his free time from the filming, the Volga is in the Mosfilm Museum of Retro Cars |
That's how the GAZ-21 looks from the inside That's how the GAZ-21 looks from the inside |
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The Volga. Everything flows … Recently, the car was completely restored - whatever one may say, and the years take their toll. “We went over the chassis, changed the upholstery, because it was already all shabby. We tried to get it as close as possible to the one that the Volga had initially,”says Evgeny Karasev, the head of the Mosfilm gaming and retransport section. “She was painted again, since during her service she received, including some defects in the bodywork.” According to the expert, the color of the coating was also tried to choose as close as possible to the original. To do this was not an easy task, since modern paints are completely different, and it is almost impossible to choose so that one hundred percent get into color.