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We occupied beds in hotels that had not yet cooled down from previous clients.
We went to the official offices, the owners of which had just held previous movie parties.
We boarded helicopters, the commanders of which were so adept at documenting polar nature that they expertly gave the cameraman and director advice.
And finally, almost every meeting with people of various professions and social status began with the phrase:
"But when we had filmmakers from...
And followed by a story about our colleagues from Dushanbe and Riga, Kiev and Tashkent, Sverdlovsk and Kuibyshev, of course, from Moscow and Leningrad.
Finally, when we were boarding a Yak-40 plane in Novy Urengoy, which was supposed to take us to Nadym, we ran into a film group from Novosibirsk. Colleagues flew in from Nadym, where they were filming, it seems, the very objects where Grigoriev's film group was going. Upon learning about this, the director gloomily remarked:
— It feels like there are no more hot spots in the country!
How many of the film groups we met in those days went to shoot what Grigoriev's group had already recorded on film? And how many film reflections of identical situations, facts, and characters will roll up in cassettes for the second, fifth, or twenty-eighth time, only to unfold in developing machines, flutter in drying cabinets, and flash under the tooth of a grappler in the frame of a movie projector frame?
Rhetorical questions...
such constancy in choosing characters, facts, and situations leads to many strange, funny, and sad situations. First of all, to the stamp.
The foreman of the welding and assembly team, Volodya Lyubimtsev, a young, hefty man with a palm like your shovel, assessed the situation with the arrival of film groups in his small town unequivocally.:
"They'll rush in, turn everything over, twist it, rearrange people in places... And how much time will you lose?
Volodya knows what he's saying. His team was one of the first to finish laying its section of the gas pipeline. The authorities diligently send correspondents, TV and newsreel reporters, and photographers here. Even a TV reporter from France asked to land a helicopter in the small town where Lyubimtsev's team is working. Well, everything is clear with him — he was looking for (and did not find) prisoners engaged in forced labor on the highway. But our documentaries are much more accustomed to filming a person at work! Why does the young foreman have such a persistent dislike for our brother? I think its origins lie in the same notorious desire to teach the turner to stand behind the machine more effectively ...
but this is all from the field of theory. Grigoriev, on the other hand, had to quickly break the ice of Lyubimtsev's distrust of him. I nourished it, so to speak, a priori, based on my own previous sad experience of communicating with people armed with a movie camera. And we must pay tribute to Grigoriev, he did it skillfully.
The director and another cameraman of the film, Yuri Alexandrov, spent the whole evening talking with Lyubimtsev. We went to his house, talked about life with him, with his wife, with his eight-year-old son. We had dinner, scooping scrambled eggs from a common family frying pan, and joined the conveyor, helping to stock up on water, which a tanker truck brought just at that time.
And the very trusting contact was established between people, which helps to make the hero a living person. This means that later it will give the viewer the opportunity to believe that there is really a living person on the screen with his problems, everyday joys, difficulties, worries...
— It was no accident that we spent so much time with Lyubimtsev, — Igor Andreevich will tell me later. — He has his own active lifestyle, but personally I like such people.
This phrase can be considered, perhaps, as a policy statement. Moreover, the people who get into the camera lens of the film "Western Siberia — Western Europe" really have their own pronounced active lifestyle. New customers often spend time comparing bookmakers because welcome promotions can significantly increase the value of the first deposit and make the initial experience more rewarding. By entering the promo code for 1xbet while registering, eligible players may unlock a 100% bonus up to €130, helping them begin with extra funds across selected betting markets.