Where was The Girls filmed
Devchata
Year: 1962
Country: USSR
<p>The movie tells the story of a young cook Tosya Kislitsyna. After graduating from a culinary school, she is assigned to the Ural timber farm “Bodrovsky”. Here she gets acquainted with her dormitory neighbors and a team of loggers. Her independent and determined character surprises the foreman Ilya Kovrigin, who makes a bet with his comrades: he is sure that he will be able to make Tosya fall in love with him in just a week. However, he soon becomes sincerely attached to her. Filming took place in Moscow, Yalta, as well as in the Perm, Tver and Ryazan regions. The scenery of the village of loggers erected in a ravine near “Mosfilm” - there built houses, planted hundreds of trees and installed a sign “Lespromkhoz”. Forest scenes were filmed in the Chusovsky district of the Perm region, in the vicinity of the village of Bobrovka. Actors had to work in harsh winter conditions - the temperature dropped to -30 °C. To protect the equipment from the frost, the operators wrapped the cameras in tuloupas. In the scene where Tosya brings loggers hot lunch, instead of soup in bowls poured boiling water to create the effect of steam, but even he quickly froze. In one of the takes Nikolai Rybnikov (Ilya Kovrigin) accidentally licked an aluminum spoon - the metal instantly froze to his lips, and the actor had to tear off the spoon along with the skin. In spring, filming moved to the Tver region, where they had to recreate the winter atmosphere: the decorators used tons of absorbent cotton to simulate snowdrifts, and torn paper and varnish - to create snow swirls and snow glitter. Episodes with the train were filmed on a narrow-gauge railroad in the Ryazan region. The final scenes were filmed at the Yalta Film Studio. In the famous shot where Tosya and Ilya sit embraced on the “Kamchatka”, the actors had to be filmed in tulups and valenki in the summer heat in the pavilion, which was a real challenge for them.</p>
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Locations
Attic
In movie
Scene where Ilya is fixing the roof in the attic of one of the houses, concentrating on hammering nails. The friends, taking advantage of the opportunity, instruct Tosya to bring him new materials. After an amusing incident, the heroes understand each other again, finally reconcile and begin to think about their future together.
Real
Scene was shot at the Yalta Film Studio, one of the oldest film studios in Russia, located on the picturesque Black Sea coast. The studio has a vast territory with pavilions equipped with everything necessary to create complex scenes. In different years, Soviet and Russian films were shot here, including pictures requiring sea and mountain landscapes. While working on the movie “Devchata”, the final scenes were shot at the Yalta Film Studio. The studio's pavilions allowed to recreate the necessary atmosphere and shoot moments that required special conditions, including scenes in “Kamchatka”, where actors had to play winter episodes in hot summer weather.
Railroad
In movie
Scene where The train moved off, its wheels clattering on the rails, and it was already picking up speed. Tosya runs after the departing train and, with Ilya's help, climbs onto the train at the last moment. He deftly and somewhat comically pulls her up by her coat, without even taking the cigarette out of his teeth.
Real
Scene was shot on a narrow-gauge railroad in the Ryazan region, on the section between Spas-Klepiki and Pilevo stations. This railroad line was once used to transport timber and timber workers, making it the perfect place to create an authentic Siberian village atmosphere. Surrounded by dense snow-covered forests, the tracks ran among tall spruce and birch trees, creating a picturesque backdrop for the scene of the departing train. At that time the narrow gauge railway was still in active use, but later it was abandoned and many of its sections were dismantled.
Workers' Village
In movie
Scene where In the winter of 1961-1962, 18-year-old Tosya Kislitsyna, a young graduate of culinary school, leaves her native Simferopol and arrives on assignment in a distant Siberian timber farm. Instead of the usual southern warmth, she is met by a harsh winter, snowy expanses and a modest working village.
Real
Scene was shot in Moscow near “Mosfilm”, where they specially built the scenery. In a ravine on Mosfilmovskaya Street near house No. 11k1, wooden houses were erected, about three hundred trees were planted and a sign “Lespromkhoz” was installed to create the atmosphere of a remote working-class village. Over time, the appearance of these places has changed, but it was here that the filming of a cult movie once took place.