I earned my first money in show business: as a child, I starred in two films and once even saw Leonid Kuravlyov without pants.
When I was eight years old, they came to school from the film studio. Gorky to recruit children for extras. And I got there.
Filming of the children's film "Nadopyosok Napoleon III" took place in the pavilion of the Gorky film studio next to VDNKh. We portrayed rural children at a party in a club.
I only filmed for one day. I then received about two rubles for shooting. No matter how hard I tried to find myself in the film, I did not find it.
In the summer of 1981, one of my friends invited me to earn money - to act in the extras of the children's film "Simply Horrible". For the shooting day they paid as much as four rubles. I filmed for over a week. In the film, I am on the screen for 15 seconds (I stand with disheveled hair next to the teacher and squint from the sun).
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=dZK1CscdDGQ
Every day I traveled from my dacha by train, and then by metro through the whole city to Yugo-Zapadnaya. There was the first school in Moscow of a new design - a square one with a courtyard (now there are many of these). It was there that the Odessa film studio filmed nature.
Many well-known actors starred in the film, including Leonid Kuravlyov, with whom I once ended up in the same locker room. More precisely, it was just one of the rooms of the local DEZ on the first floor of a residential building, which was allocated as a dressing room for the duration of the filming. So now I can be proud that once I saw Kuravlev alive, and without pants. :)
I remember how surprised I was that spotlights based on an electric arc were used for lighting (two graphite rods moved there and an arc burned between them).
And then I also had a very strong childhood impression of how fake everything is in the cinema (there, according to the plot of the film there were silent electronics and, as they say now, DIY, and there were such blunders that even at the age of 11 I was ashamed of them).
© 2022, Alexey Nadezhin
For ten years I have been writing every day about technology, discounts, interesting places and events. Read my blog site ammo1.ru, v Learn, Zen, Mirtesen, Telegram.
My projects:
lamptest.ru. I test LED lamps and help you figure out which ones are good and which are not so good.
Elerus.ru. I collect information about domestic electronic devices for personal use and share it.
You can contact me on Telegram @ammo1 and by mail [email protected].
#cinema#the USSR#kuravlev