"I will order parade! ": There was a comedy "Gold Calf"] 55 years ag

The novel "Gold Calf" screen version about the great schemer Ostap Bender as which director Mikhail Abramovich Shveytser acted, was released 55 years ago. Having chosen for the movie a black-and-white film, the director sought to recreate the atmosphere of cinema of the 1920th on the screen. At first the tape was apprehended by the audience cool: contemporaries did not estimate Schweitzer's satire, and the leading man Sergei Yursky even began to ignore for jeers over the intellectuals. The picture found the niche later and over time became classics of the Soviet cinema. About difficulties and comical situations on a platform — in material TV channel "RT". Federal state unitary enterprise RAMI "RIA Novosti"...