Interesting facts about the "office romances" (12 photos) Bashny.Net

Actors for this film creep up very quickly, because Ryazanov were valuable "reserves" after a screen test in the previous picture: Svetlana Nemolyaeva auditioned for the role of Nadi in the film "The Irony of Fate," there were also among the contenders for the role Oleg Basilashvili and Alisa Freundlich. With "Irony of Fate" is also related to the appearance of "office romances" Andrew and Leah Myagkova Akhedzhakova.



According to Ryazanov, Andrei Myagkova specifically nalepili such mustache and glasses in the rough frame to the beginning of the film he was producing as much as possible the impression of "clerical rats' lack of initiative Niedorajda.

It should be noted that it was not easy to achieve, because two years ago the actor fell in love all over the country as a lyrical romance Eugene Lukashina of "Twist of Fate", but the director struggled as far as possible to withdraw its present character from the previous.



On the role of director Kalugin immediately identified Freundlich. Fortunately, this is one of the few cases in the domestic film when Ryazanov without screen tests and approvals through hudsovet allowed to shoot those actors what he wanted.

To create a believable image-mymry headmaster, director and actress have been searching for the right clothes. In the most remote corners of the costume "Mosfilm" they picked shapeless incomprehensible color and size skirts and jackets. But still to complete the image lacked some details. As always, helped the case. Operator paintings Vladimir Nahabtsev just in case brought old glasses of his father. And when Alice Brunovna put them on, it became clear - "mymra" is ready to appear on the site.



Oleg Basilashvili seen only in a role Novoseltseva, and tried to prove it Eldar. A character with a speaking name Samohvalov actor did not like, but in the process he acknowledged that Ryazanov right to distribute the roles.



By the way, while filming Basilashvili had to drive the car, but he never had not sat behind the wheel! Actor took the instructor, but take the full course of the future motorist he did not have time. As a result, once Basilashvili almost broke the camera, and the other - entered the kiosk "Sojuzpechat." Actor realized that the fee he had not seen ... But it did not punish. And in addition to the fee he received from colleagues and even the State Prize of the USSR!



Initially secretary Vera was presented as a married woman, whose husband was played by actor Alexander Fatyushin. His hero is constantly tossed between his wife and a motorcycle, which is why the couple quarreled. Even managed to shoot a few scenes with Fatyushin and Akhedzhakova, but the actor fell ill. Therefore, Vera had to swear to her husband only by phone. By the way, the voice of "voice on the phone," Oleg Basilashvili.



In connection with numerous impromptu actor's during the filming, the material filmed a lot more than was included in the final version (almost three series instead of two).



According to Eldar Ryazanov, the scene of "romantic feast" Kalugin Novoseltseva at her home - these two exceptional improv actor who has played at the highest level of acting. You can imagine how heart-stopping at the weak half of moviegoers when watching this incredibly lyrical and sensual episode.



Actress Lyudmila Ivanova, very convincingly played activist Shura indeed in those years was chairman of the local committee in the theater "Contemporary».



The action of "Office Romance" takes place almost all the time in the same building statistical agency. At the entrance to the establishment of hanging signs with the names of various organizations, including the mysterious "Institute WHEREOF," but the three parts of this building is actually filmed in various locations in Moscow.



Not to turn the film in the drama, the action of exclusively indoors, Eldar Ryazanov decided to "dilute" the scene inside buildings kinds bustling pedestrians and cars in Moscow, as well as its beautiful scenery.

The filmmakers deliberately "settled" the characters in different places in and around Moscow, to trace the route of each of the home to work, and to emphasize their social status: Ludmila Kalugin - in the "elite" house on B.Nikitskoy, Yuri Samohvalova - Gorky Street (now Tver), the house next door to the Central Telegraph in Moscow. Ordinary employees "placed" in residential areas: Novoseltseva - in Chernyshevsky Lane, secretary Vera - Chertanovskaya on the street, and Ryzhov - in Moscow, at the Yaroslavl direction.



Romantic heroine Svetlana Nemolyaeva Olga Ryzhov read poems Bella Akhmadulina "My shy hero, you deftly avoid the shame." They never published, so the actress a few years after the picture was forced to rewrite them by hand and send their fans. By the way, the story of the letters heroine Svetlana Nemolyaeva was taken by the authors of the film from the life of fellow filmmakers, but the names of prototypes for obvious reasons, has not yet been called.



Another interesting point: the bronze horse, which carries Novosel previously been involved in the film directed by Leonid Gaidai "Diamond Hand", he also featured in an episode of the television movie "Seventeen Moments of Spring" in the movie "Formula of Love" and "Old New Year" . Later that same horse appears in the film Vladimir Menshov "Shirley Myrli", filmed after the collapse of the USSR.

Words music business card of the film - the song "There is no bad weather," were written by Ryazanov (according to him, in case he went through a lot of options poems of famous poets, but could not find), but he passed them on film composer Andrei Petrov under the guise of a poem by the English poet William Blake, in order not to embarrass him. The "fraud" is not felt, but after he learned the true authorship of many poems famous, famous poets, offered further cooperation with Ryazanov, seemed to him the verses of Ryazanov.