How the movie "Queen of the Gas Station" was filmed. Cars in the film (34 photos + 2 videos)

“Gas Station Queen” is my favorite movie to watch in the spring. It seems to me that this film is as fresh, light, beautiful and sunny as spring itself. You can watch it alone or with friends. Many funny moments lift your spirits and fill you with positivity. No vulgarity here! Is it so important."

Nadezhda Rumyantseva

The director of the film, in the best traditions of musical comedies of Hollywood (the scene of Rumyantseva’s night roller skating alone is worth it!) was a front-line soldier, commander of an anti-aircraft battery Nikolai Litus, who lost his arm in the war, but not his sense of humor - he also directed “Sergeant Tsybuli’s Country Trip” "

Despite the fact that the film was officially criticized for “lack of ideas and lightness,” it was watched by 54 million viewers at the box office, and screenwriter Pavel Lubensky, a rare case in domestic practice, received a cash bonus of 350 rubles for its popularity.

At the time of filming, Nadezhda Rumyantseva, playing the role of a 17-year-old girl, was already 32 years old.

The surname of the main character, Dobryyvecher, was possibly taken from a Ukrainian boxer of the 20s; actor B. Sichkin recalled him in the book “I’m from Odessa! Hello!":

“I never missed a boxing competition. There was a boxer named Good Evening. When his last name was announced, the audience responded with a laugh: “Hello.” Good Evening had an extraordinary stance, hands down, no guard, all open, dancing around the ring, maneuvering, and hard to hit. He defended well and counterattacked well. Worked well. Everyone knew and loved him as a boxer.”

The film begins with a short excursion around Kyiv from the window of the Kyiv-Yalta bus. The route of movement passes along Khreshchatyk, the camera lingers on Proriznaya Street, the Moscow Hotel on Kalinin Square, along streets with flowering chestnut trees, Dnieper embankment, past the construction of new microdistricts, the park named after. Pushkin (in the frame there are mothers walking with strollers against the backdrop of the monument to Alexander Sergeevich).

Since the main location of the action takes place near a gas station, many cars from the 50s and 60s constantly appear in the film. The characters in the film Slavka and the Bear drive experimental cars: the LAZ-Ukraine-1 bus (1961) and the BelAZ-540 (1962), and in the episode with foreigners there is even a real Cadillac Series 62.

The episode with the bees was filmed in the central square of the city of Bila Tserkva. In September 2010, in honor of this event, a memorial plaque with the image of the leading actress, Nadezhda Rumyantseva, was installed on the building opposite which the filming took place.

The episode with the apple, which Rumyantseva hands to Belov when they first meet, and he promises to dry it as a keepsake, is copied, as they say, from life. During a break, a driver in a Moskvich drove up to Rumyantseva, who was in character, and demanded to refuel his car as soon as possible, Anna, the daughter of the screenwriter of “The Queen...” Pyotr Lubensky, says in one of her interviews.

The actress, who was about to snack on an orange, noted with resentment in her voice that she was not a gas station attendant, and it would do well for the young man to watch movies more often. At first, the driver shouted, called the would-be gas station attendant a “badass” and even demanded the Book of Complaints, but when he recognized the then-popular Rumyantseva in the mess, he apologized and asked for an autograph.

Nadezhda refused to give an autograph, but, having softened, she treated the driver to an orange that had not been peeled. That's when the episode was born in which an orange became an apple.

“I won’t eat it,” answered the Moskvich driver, “I’ll dry it as a souvenir.”

Little-known directors Nikolai Litus and Alexei Mishurin decided not to invent anything super complicated, but created one simple story about the lives of ordinary people. And they did it tastefully, although at first glance moving the main events to a gas station is a risky business. But it turns out that even in such a not very romantic place, people find friends, their love, learn to make something out of nothing and always believe in the best.

“- They will take you away! I hope I won’t live to see retirement, wow!”

The touching and simple-minded character was perfectly played by Andrey Sova. His Panas, just like his father, was worried about his new subordinate, anxiously watching as fans lined up for her.

Actors Alexey Kozhevnikov and Yuri Belov are no less amusing. The courtship of their characters with the main character constantly ends in comical situations, showing that both a simple guy and a dandy can lose their heads from love.

Nonna Koperzhinskaya is also incomparable in her image. Her harmful and cunning Rogneda will more than once bring Lyudmila to tears, although over time she will understand why everyone likes her so much. After all, it is better to be cheerful and active than angry and indifferent.

Of the secondary characters, the most memorable in terms of color is the priest on a motorcycle performed by Alexander Khvylya.

Initially, director Nikolai Litus offered the role of the gas station attendant to Estonian actress Terje Luik. She was beautiful and, as they say now, sexy. But the beauty had one significant drawback - a complete lack of a sense of humor, without which, you must admit, it is difficult to act in a comedy. The project was on the verge of closure when second director Alexey Mishurin, after going through all the names, settled on Nadezhda Rumyantseva.

When the scene of Lyudmila's first visit to the gas station was filmed, the rooster, which was supposed to greet her with his singing, did not want to crow. No matter how much the trainers fought over their pet, the stubborn bird did not make a single sound. And then one of the onlookers crowding around the site jokingly advised him to pour moonshine for the rooster. The exhausted filmmakers were ready to get the feathered artist drunk in order to finally film this scene, and they placed a saucer of alcohol in front of him. After tasting the moonshine, the rooster crowed so loudly that they could not calm him down for a long time.

In the episode when two bureaucratic leaders Borsch and Lopata jump on an emergency bridge, proving its strength, and it falls apart under them, actors Viktor Myagky and Nikolai Yakovchenko starred. After the first take, when the actors were getting out of the water, Nikolai Fedorovich said: “Why, guys, didn’t you prevent the mist from failing, I can’t swim…”

The gas station and the colorful water tower next to it have been preserved in Piryatyn to this day.

The largest and most colorful car in the film is driven by a driver with the no less colorful surname Bear. In one of the initial episodes, the Bear shows cowardice towards the heroine Rumyantseva Lyudmila Dobryivecher and cheats her out of ten rubles. However, it gets better by the end. In the frame is a pre-production BelAZ-540, a beautiful car.

Serine sample

Until recently, the hard worker KRAZ 221 could still be found at a construction site, but it began production back in 1959!

Skoda-LIAZ 706. The Czech brand had nothing to do with bus production in Likino-Dulevo, and LIAZ stood for Liberec Automobile Plants. The production of trucks under the Skoda-LIAZ brand began in 1957. But domestic semi-hooded trucks of this class were not yet produced in the USSR at that time. GAZ-66 appeared in the same year 62, and it still had a long road ahead of it into the national economy of the country.

UAZ-450, which later became a “loaf”, and the feelings of the driver Taras. As you can see, initially the UAZ looked much more stylish than its current great-great-grandson.

Bigger bus. PAZ-652

Serial version

Bus LAZ-697 Tourist. A very impressive car!

The "concept bass" LAZ Ukraine-1 was a true highlight of the film. The dual head optics and the elongated, streamlined “nose” look especially unusual. The experimental machine was built in June 1961. The bus was equipped with a 150-horsepower V-shaped ZiL engine, and the luxurious interior offered its passengers 36 comfortable seats with individual lighting and excellent visibility through panoramic windows extending onto the roof.

GAZ-21 "Volga" of the second series, 1959.

1956 Cadillac Series 62. According to the plot, foreigners drive up to a gas station in it.

The film immediately drives away the bad mood. Something funny always happens here. Unfortunately, much fewer people know this Soviet comedy, because its directors were not Leonid Gaidai or Eldar Ryazanov. But its creators tried to please the viewer, for which many thanks to them.