For the role of Alexei Trofimov in the film "Officers" there were 42 applicants. Among them there were such stars of the Soviet cinema as Evgeny Zharikov, Stanislav Lyubshin, Yuri Solomin, Mikhail Nozhkin ... However, Georgy Yumatov surpassed all the samples.
Interestingly, Boris Vasiliev, the script writer, was busy with Yumatova. As a soldier who volunteered for the front, he knew that Yumatov, a heroic sailor who had started his service as a cabin boy on a torpedo boat, took part in the capture of Budapest, Bucharest, and in Austria in general counted among the almost national heroes (for the salvation of Vienna) , for this role is like no other. He does not even need to draw scars - quite enough of his own, received in real battles
But the director initially refused. After all, Yumatov had a bad reputation as a strong drinking person, who could disrupt the shooting. Yumatov himself doubted that the script seemed superficial to him. And in the partners he got Vasily Lanovoy, with whom Yumatova had a very tense relationship since the film "Pavel Korchagin", where the main role claimed both actors
The movie "Officers" was reconciled to the actors. They made a lot together about their heroes (the director welcomed the improvisation on the set). It was then that Yumatov and Lanovoy became friends, just like Trofimov and Barabbas
By the way, the director's fears were confirmed when the shooting took place in Sevastopol - Yumatov was drinking. The local people did not allow the former sailor to step in until he drank with them. Then urgently called on the shooting of his beloved wife - the actress Muza Krepkogorskaya and even invented for her a tiny role - Masha's mother. And she hardly pacified and sobered up her husband
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Used frames from the c / f "Officers"
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