Where was Ne mozhet byt! filmed
Не может быть!
Year: 1975
Country: Russia
<p>Filming of the movie “It can't be” took place in Astrakhan. Most of the street scenes were filmed there, because the local architecture in the 1970s has not changed much since the 1920s, when the events of the film take place.</p>
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Locations
Gorbushkin House
In movie
Scene where Zavmag Gorbushkin is summoned to the investigator of the prosecutor's office. Gorbushkin thinks that they want to arrest him and collectivize his property, so he decides to sell everything as soon as possible and leave his wife the means for her future life. A good-quality house with a summer veranda was bought for 10,000 rubles (the sum was voiced in the movie itself).
Real
Scene was shot in a house on Jean Jaurès Street in Astrakhan, right in front of the St. John Chrysostom Church. House No. 47 was transformed for this purpose: a terrace and a staircase were added to it, and beautiful carved platbands were made for the windows.
Gorbushkin's wife's brother's beer store
In movie
Scene where The brother of Gorbushkin's wife works in his own beer hall and pleases the locals with constant drinking, selling boiled crayfish and bagels. He performs a very popular and recognizable song “It's not beer that ruins people, it's water that ruins people!”
Real
Scene was shot The beer hall was set against the backdrop of Astrakhan's Tatar Bazaar. It was a temporary stall set up for the filming of the movie. Especially for this scene on the set drove a barrel of beer. When the working day came to an end, the crew members emptied the barrel with pleasure.
Prosecutor's Office
In movie
Scene where Gorbushkin is bewildered and starts to get ready for the interrogation, preparing for the worst. Gorbushkin at first does not want to enter the building, but the servant of the law still takes him to the investigator's office, where he testifies. At this time, Gorbushkin's wife (played by Nina Grebeshkova) and her enterprising brother (played by Soviet actor Vyacheslav Nevinniy) are actively engaged in “squandering” the property acquired by the protagonist. When Gorbushkin returns home in the evening, he sees bare walls and his wife in old woman's clothes sitting on strange furniture with a neighbor. A week later Gorbushkin is arrested after all.
Real
Scene was shot Saratov State Law Academy Astrakhan branch (at that time) Astrakhan Palace of Pioneers. This was the place of filming the scene “At the investigator's”. Also for filming used Quiet Lane at the intersection with Fioletova Street. Right on the sidewalk, on the playground, built a set-cabinet investigator on a high platform overlooking the Kremlin. The set had three walls, and the missing wall was used for filming.