Children's movie shot in Pripyat and Kiev
One day the boys of 6th B got tired of being rebuked for being naughty and lazy - and the guys swore to each other that they would not only win all the upcoming competitions, but would also prove to the whole school, and most importantly to their girls, that they could always be relied upon.
Script: Alexander Chumak
Director: Aleksey Moroz
Cameraman: Vitaliy Zimovets
Composer: Alexander Yakovchuk
Alexander Dovzhenko Film Studio.
From the memories of the Pripyatians:
Vsevolod:
This movie was shoot filmed in Pripyat and I am a witness to that. But only the scene of the ball breaking the glass in the chemistry class and the march of the boys in the stadium of school No. 3 were filmed. Everything else was filmed in Kiev.
Kirill:
The first scenes are all shooted in Pripyat. The "nerd" report about how Columbus did not discover America was filmed in school №3, in the background in the frame you can see the houses of the fourth microdistrict of Pripyat. The scene with the mouse was filmed at school No. 2.
Irina:
Yes the shooting of the film took place in Pripyat. I was an extra in it for a few days. At first, the filming took place in my school No. 2, where the lower grades were. And then they filmed at school No. 3 on the sports ground, the scene where the window was smashed with the ball.
Source: kino-teatr.ru
Mr White:
During the summer holidays, the shooting of the film "Men are men" took place. Мы как раз в футбол играли на поле в третьей школе. We were just playing soccer on the field at the third school, and they filmed a scene with some kind of drill song review. And then the glass had to be broken with a ball. So we helped. There are a couple of classmates in the movie too, one of them is the most red-headed one. And at the fourth school, they filmed scenes of classes. It was funny to watch - schoolchildren running down the corridor of the fourth school and running out into the street in Kiev.
Source: forum.pripyat.com
Galina: My daughters were paid 5 rubles per filming day for this movie.
Oleg: I remember being in an extra, too. I got paid 15 rubles for three days, I didn't know where to spend it.
Sergey: Yes, I also starred in this film, an episode in the second school. We were paid 5 rubles a day to shoot.
Andrei: I saw the shooting near the third school!
Irina: We were filming at recess, at School No. 3.
Olga: I remember how it was filmed. I haven't seen the film, but there should be the windows of my class in the footage.
Victoria Timoshenko about the locations shown in the movie:
The fourth school. I think it's near the gymnasium and locker rooms.
Fourth School, English class. These small classrooms were for foreign language classes. You can see a little bit of my house from the window.
Sports ground of the third school.
Fourth School, Russian Language and Literature Class, teacher Zoya Dmitrievna.
Fourth School, office of our homeroom teacher, mathematics teacher Orel Lilia Alexandrovna.
The Art and Language of Soviet Officialism:
State Committee on Cinematography of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Kiev Order of Lenin Film Studio of feature Films named after Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko
To the Deputy Director of the Chernobyl NPP, Comrade S.S. Shishov
In accordance with the Decree of the CPSU Central Committee "On measures to further improve the ideological and artistic quality of children's literature and children's films," the Kiev Dovzhenko Film Studio of the Order of Lenin began work on a full-length color feature film for children "Men are Men.
The film will focus on the most important problems of education in the Soviet school, will help implement the decisions of the Party and government on the school reform.
The management of the film studio appeals to you with a convincing request: to assist the film crew in accommodating 80 people, for a period of 60 days.
The departure of the group to Pripyat is scheduled for July 30, 1984.
Director of the film studio A. Putintsev.
Source: Chornobyl Today Facebook
Photos by Galina Goricheva:
Pripyat, Sportivnaya Street, School No. 3
