Leonid Kvinikhidze: 4 films of the director, which everyone knows about

Leonid Kvinikhidze is a famous Soviet director who made a lot of fascinating and beloved pictures. What are the four films of the authorship of Kvinikhidze known to every former Soviet citizen?

Director Leonid Kvinikhidze and his "Straw Hat"

No New Year in the USSR could not do without two films: the melodrama of Eldar Ryazanov's "The Irony of Fate ..." and the musical comedy "The Straw Hat" by Kvinikhidze. Every Soviet viewer, who turned on the TV on December 31, must have seen a funny story on the screens of Leonidas Fadinare, a demoniac who was desperately trying to arrange his personal life.

Leonid A. Kvinikhidze took off the "Straw Hat" in 1974. He invited the charming Andrei Mironov to the main role. The roles of the second plan were played by Zinoviy Gerdt, Lyudmila Gurchenko and Alisa Freindlich.

In the center of the plot of this musical film is the history of the hangman Fadinar, who one day decided to end his free bachelor life. However, he does not intend to say good-bye to precious freedom gratuitously, therefore he chooses the heiress of a rich gardener as a bride. It would seem that everything is going well, but only in life sloven even such an important day as a wedding can not go smoothly: shortly before the ceremony, Leonidas gets into a piquant situation and is forced to search the whole city for a straw hat so as not to ruin the good name of one lady.

Leonid Kvinikhidze: movies. "Engineer Garin's Collapse"

The tape "The collapse of Engineer Garin" Kvinikhidze released on the screen a year before "Straw Hat". This picture has not received such great popularity, but it is well known in circles of viewers, fond of science fiction. Leonid Kvinikhidze this time turned to a dramatic story, which is not devoid of this fascination.

A certain Soviet scientist named Garin uses the workings of his friend Mantsev in order to create supernova weapons: the engineer manages to design a heat ray that can burn any metals, stones, walls, etc. However, Garin is not even going to share his discovery with the world community . He decides with the help of the latest weapons to become the ruler of almost the entire world. Garin travels to South America, where he begins to develop gold mines using the apparatus. Here he contacts the American tycoon and turns a number of criminal cases. And only his Soviet colleagues-scientists can stop an engineer.

"Celestial Swallows"

Leonid Kvinikhidze was a master of musical films. One of the best works of the director in this genre is the ribbon "Celestial Swallows". The film was shot in the Crimea near Alupka.

"Celestial Swallows" is an easy entertaining comedy about a few days in the life of a young pupil of the monastery. Denise becomes hostage to the strict rules of her era: she is forced to build a good child, while secretly dreaming about the career of the artist. However, the decision of Denise's parents to marry her daughter shuffles all the cards in the deck: the girl has only one day left to become an entertainer before the engagement with a respectable officer is scheduled. In the final of the picture the girl gets everything she wants, moreover she falls in love with her own groom.

The painting is filled with wonderful songs by Viktor Lebedev. And the leading stars were the first stars of Soviet cinema: Andrei Mironov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Alexander Shirvindt and others.

"Mary Poppins, goodbye!"

Leonid Kvinikhidze for children and teenage audience took an unforgettable musical tale called "Mary Poppins, goodbye!". On the screens this work was published in 1984 and almost immediately entered the "Golden Fund" of Soviet cinema.

The fairy tale takes place in England. In the center of the plot is a simple English family, in which a brother and sister grow up. Parents are looking for their nanny and hiring a rather extravagant person who calls herself "Lady Perfection". Nurse Mary Poppins changes for the better life not only the growing up of Michael and Jane, but also their parents, and at the same time residents of the entire London street of Vishneva.

As expected, the film was accompanied by a quality musical series, over which the composer Maxim Dunaevsky worked. The main roles in the film were played by Natalia Andreichenko, Larisa Udovichenko, Oleg Tabakov and many other notorious artists.