Birthday of The Most Charming and Attractive
November 10 marks the 36th anniversary of the release of Gerald Bezhanov's comedy "The Most Charming and Attractive" on the screens of the Soviet Union.
I'll make a reservation right away that this is "not my" movie. I watched it once, and I won't do it again. However, what can we talk about, even if the performer of the main role Irina Muravyova for a very long time and categorically refused to act in this film.
Gerald Bezhanov himself spoke about how he managed to persuade Irina Muravyova to play the role of Nadia Klyueva, about how this film was created.
But the publications on the FilmGourmand blog are dedicated not only and not so much to the favorite films of the channel's author. Here, on the FilmGourmand blog, we are talking about those films that, according to the OBJECTIVE criteria, took a place in the Golden Thousand of the best films of the world cinema.
What are these objective criteria that made it possible to include Gerald Bezhanov's film in the list of film masterpieces? Well, first of all, these are its financial indicators. The film was watched by 44.9 million movie viewers in its first year, making it the leader of the Soviet film distribution in 1985. If we recall that the average price of a ticket to a cinema in the USSR was about 30 kopecks, it turns out that the picture collected about 13.5 million rubles. Meanwhile, its budget was only 500 thousand rubles. That is, the film paid off nearly 27 times.
However, financial indicators are far from being the main and far from the only indicators of the success of a motion picture. The viewer rating is also important for us, which we determine according to the ratings given by users of IMDB and Kinopoisk. So, 69% of users of these sites gave the movie "The Most Charming and Attractive" ratings from 8 to 10, and 24% of users awarded the movie the highest score - "ten".
The famous Russian film critic Yevgeny Nefedov, in his review of the film, wondered about the reasons for the audience success of Gerald Bezhanov's picture and himself gave an answer to his question: "The authors of "The Most Charming and Attractive", seemingly not claiming to be great artistic discoveries and deep social analysis, managed to surprisingly accurately capture the latent aspirations of the audience, primarily of the fair sex."
With that said, the rating of Gerald Bezhanov's film "The Most Charming and Attractive" according to FilmGourmand's version was 8.077, which allowed it to take 610th Rank in the Golden Thousand.
