Museum of the Mosfilm film studio. History of Mosfilm Cinema concern "Mosfilm" is one of the largest film studios in Europe
The film studio (or, in modern terms, a film concern) Mosfilm is the largest film production complex in Europe. Today, this is the only film studio in Russia that fully complies with international standards and carries out the full production cycle: from writing a script, building sets, sewing costumes, to filming, editing, dubbing, etc. The area of the film studio is 34.5 hectares. On the territory there are 15 filming pavilions, a tone studio, an apple orchard, two-level ponds, a forest park, a museum, a complex of outdoor outdoor scenery "Old Moscow", a hotel and... much more.
Mosfilm's birthday is considered to be January 30, 1924, when the premiere of the first full-length silent film “On Wings High” directed by Boris Mikhin took place. Today the Mosfilm Film Concern is a federal state unitary enterprise. According to General Director Karen Shakhnazarov, the enterprise does not receive any budget funds; its reconstruction and modernization were carried out with its own money. It pays decent taxes. In particular, over the past 2013, the film concern paid taxes amounting to three hundred million rubles. More than 1,200 people work here, and the studio's production capacity is more than one hundred paintings per year. Over the entire history of its existence, Mosfilm has produced about one and a half thousand (!) full-length films.
"Mosfilm" was created on the basis of two nationalized film factories A. A. Khanzhonkov and I. N. Ermolyev in November 1923, when the newly created enterprise began work on the film directed by Boris Mikhin "On Wings High", which was released on the screens of the Soviet Union 30 January 1924. This date is officially considered the date of birth of the Mosfilm film studio. Initially the film studio was called "Moskinokombinat". It received its current name in 1935. The emblem of the Mosfilm film studio is the sculpture “Worker and Collective Farm Woman” by Vera Mukhina, which appeared in 1947 as the Mosfilm screen mark in the feature film “Spring” directed by Grigory Alexandrov.
1. The address of Mosfilm, as you might guess, is st. Mosfilmovskaya, building 1. And exactly opposite now stands the futuristic “House on Mosfilmovskaya”. In front of the main entrance to the film studio there is an emblem made in the famous font. 
2. The first building you see when you get inside is the administrative building. By the way, most of the buildings are painted this sand color. 
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5. The territory of Mosfilm is huge, it’s like a city within a city with its own streets and traffic rules. See how many “no stopping” signs there are. The film studio follows the latest Moscow fashion. I wonder if cars are towed here just as intensively? 
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7. Some hangars. 
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10. Car wash and tire service - everything is here. 
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12. The house on Mosfilmovskaya is visible from everywhere. 
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14. And in the bowels of this crematorium-like building is the famous tone studio, or rather, a complex of more than a dozen studios, including an orchestral one. This is where music is recorded, dubbing, etc. 
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16. Smoking at Mosfilm is allowed only in specially designated areas. 
17. Let's look inside. 
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19. There is a complex corridor system inside and a person who comes here for the first time, despite the abundance of signs, can easily get lost. 
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23. One of the filming pavilions is occupied by the decorations of the temple. 
24. Installation and dismantling of structures is carried out by special cranes located on top. 
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28. Someone is making a video. 
29. There is even a laundry room here. Or maybe not alone. 
30. Casts of actors’ faces for applying plastic makeup.
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33. Separately on the territory of Mosfilm there is a site for on-location historical filming "Moscow, 19th century", created once specifically for Shakhnazarov's film "A Horseman Named Death". 
34. In this historical oasis, all the houses are made of plywood and covered with plaster on top. At the same time, they are empty inside and are supported by a frame made of scaffolding. 
35. The films “State Councilor”, “Poor Nastya”, “Death of the Empire”, “Gentlemen Officers”, “Doctor Zhivago”, “Azazel” and many others were filmed here. 
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47. A little bit of the Mosfilm Museum. It is interesting primarily for its fleet of vehicles. Each of the cars presented here was featured in some movie, and often in several. Here, for example, is Stalin's ZiS-110. 
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49. "Volga" from the film "Beware of the Car." 
50. And this is the same disabled woman of the Nikulin-Morgunov-Vitsin trinity. "Don't make noise! I'm disabled!" remember? 
51. Opel 1934 edition. By the way, all the cars are running, even now for filming. 
52. Huge Rolls-Royce. 
53. Did you find out? Bus of Gleb Zheglov's brigade. 
The monument to Leonov in Moscow is installed on the Alley of Movie Stars, located next to the Mosfilm film studio. Here you will see not only tiles with handprints of famous Soviet and Russian film masters, but also a popular monument to Leonov, a famous theater and film actor, loved by many generations of viewers.
The history of the creation of the monument to Leonov
The sculpture of the beloved actor was created by order of Mosfilm. With a request to sculpt the figure of Evgeniy Pavlovich, the film studio turned to the artist Ekaterina Chernyshova, who immediately accepted this offer.
Initially, the actor’s widow and his son Andrei wanted the sculpture to depict a lyrical hero, such as the locksmith Kharitonov from the film “Autumn Marathon,” but then the family, together with the artist, decided to create a figure of Evgeniy Troshkin, an Associate Professor from the comedy “Gentlemen of Fortune.”
Ekaterina Chernyshova bought a copy of the film and a book about the actor and, after working on them, completed a sketch that was approved by Evgeniy Pavlovich’s relatives. The artist began work and in 2001 the monument to Leonov in Moscow was cast in bronze.
Its opening took place in June 2001, when the XXIII Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) was held in the capital and the Alley of Movie Stars was opened in the park on the street. Mosfilmovskaya.
It’s sad, but the author of the monument, Ekaterina Chernyshova, was not invited to the opening ceremony of the Alley of Movie Stars. The artist was not offended and later made sculptures of Nikulin from “Operation Y”, Papanov and Mironov from “12 Chairs”.
Monument to Leonov in Moscow - description
The monument to Leonov in Moscow is erected on the Alley of Movie Stars in a public garden not far from the film studio building at the intersection of Mosfilmovskaya and Pyryeva streets.
The sculpture depicts Evgeny Troshkin during his confrontation with a prisoner in prison. At this moment, the hero of the film tears his T-shirt and utters the famous phrase: “I’ll tear your mouth, I’ll gouge out your eyes.” You can see a variety of tattoos on the hands of the sculpture.
Alley of Movie Stars in Moscow
There is an Alley of Russian Stars in many Russian cities, including Kaliningrad and Vyborg, Vitebsk and Kazan, Izhevsk and Saratov, Stavropol and Krasnoyarsk.
In the capital, one of the alleys of movie stars is located near the Mosfilm film studio, where there are slabs with handprints of many famous and beloved filmmakers, including Georgy Danelia and Alexandra Abdulov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Elina Bystritskaya, Oleg Basilashvili and Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Liya Akhedzhakova and Nikolai Karachentsov .
This Alley differs in this from the alleys near the Rossiya Concert Hall and on Arbat, where only the names of film masters are laid down, and not their imprints.
The decision to create the Alley of Movie Stars was made in the spring of 2001, and its grand opening took place on June 25, 2001, on this day the first memorial plate was installed, on which the President of the MIFF, actor and film director Nikita Mikhalkov, adhering to the Hollywood tradition, left his handprint and autograph on cement.
For reference: Usually this ceremony takes place according to the following scheme: the hero of the occasion arrives in a luxury car, greets the assembled audience and gives autographs to everyone. The organizers bring out a slab of fresh cement, into which the movie star dips his hand and then signs.
It must be said that leaving hand or foot prints in Hollywood is much more prestigious than receiving an Oscar or having a star on the Walk of Fame.
The number of Stars on the Walk of Fame and the number of Oscar winners number in the thousands, and only about 200 famous personalities, including Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn, have received the honor of leaving their imprints on the concrete at the TCL Chinese Theater (formerly Grauman's Chinese Theater) on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Monroe, Clint Eastwood and Johnny Depp, Al Pacino and Jackie Chan.
Monument to Leonov in Moscow - address
Address - Mosfilmovskaya street, building No. 8, Alley of Movie Stars square.
Monument to Leonov in Moscow - how to get there
- By metro to Sportivnaya, Victory Park or Kyiv stations
- By minibus No. 110m and 11m, 20m and 329m, 394m and 525m
- By bus No. 67 and 119, 205 and 205k
- Trolleybus No. 7 and 17, 34 and 34k to the Mosfilm stop.
In the life of the outstanding artist, beloved and adored by the audience, Evgeniy Leonov, not everything was so simple. He was dissatisfied with himself and his roles, he lacked love and it seemed that he was not worthy of it.
In 2014, it was 20 years since the famous actor passed away. The monument to Leonov in Moscow - a sculpture of a funny and kind Associate Professor reminds us of the work of an actor who knew how to hide complexes and fears, doubts and loneliness with his smile.
On the territory of Mosfilm there are several interesting monuments: a cameraman with a movie camera, V.M. Shukshin, “Girl with a Firecracker”, a crocodile lurking in the grass in a small park, a Frog Princess nearby, and a lizard basking on a boulder.
Initially, I planned to talk about these sculptures separately, at least about the monuments to Shukshin, the cameraman and the girl. But I couldn’t find almost any information about them! No creation date, no authors, not to mention their stories. I really hope someone can help.
Therefore, here I indicate the exact coordinates of the sculptures, provide their photos and tell a few words about Mosfilm itself.
Monument to V.M. Shukshin - 55°43.384N, 37°31.891E;
"Girl with a Firecracker" - 55°43.422N, 37°31.893E;
Cameraman with a movie camera - 55°43.356N, 37°32.028E.
Mosfilm's birthday is considered to be January 24, 1924 - on this day the premiere of B. Mikhin's film "On Wings High" took place. This was the first film shot at the film studio of Khanzhonkov and Ermolyev, the result of whose merger was Mosfilm.
The name "Mosfilm" appeared only in 1936, and before that the film studio was renamed several times - "Sovkino", "Soyuzkino", "Rosfilm", "Soyuzfilm" and even "Moskinokombinat".
During the Great Patriotic War, the studio was evacuated to Alma-Ata. Of the thousand studio workers who went to the front, 146 did not return.
The well-known symbol of Mosfilm - Mukhina's sculpture "Worker and Collective Farm Woman" - first appeared as a screensaver in the film "Spring" in 1947. In this case, not the original sculpture was used, but a copy, only one meter in size.
In total, Mosfilm has produced more than 1,700 films over more than 90 years, that is, approximately every 6th film is domestically produced.
In addition to domestic ones, many foreign directors shot their films at Mosfilm over the years - for example, Giuseppe De Santis, Vittorio De Sica, Akira Kurosawa.
Of the four domestic films that won an Oscar, three were shot at Mosfilm: “War and Peace,” “Dersu Uzala,” and “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears.” Also, two of our films were created there, which received the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival: “The Ascension” and “Theme”. The only Soviet film awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes, The Cranes Are Flying, was filmed here. In addition, the first of the four domestic winners of the Venice Film Festival, “Ivan’s Childhood,” was also made at Mosfilm.
By the way...
The film studio occupies a fairly large area - 34.5 hectares, being one of the largest film studios in Europe. A whole “retro city” has been built here, in which the filming of various historical films took place and is still taking place.
You can get to the territory of Mosfilm only by pre-registering for an excursion, which includes an overview of filming studios and pavilions, a museum of actor cars, a visit to the make-up shop and inspection of various exhibits. The territory of Mosfilm also includes a large park, where sculptures and monuments are located.
The Mosfilm film concern is the largest leading enterprise in the Russian film industry, one of the largest film studios in Europe, equipped with modern high-tech equipment that allows the entire film production cycle to be fully carried out. Mosfilm produces almost all domestic film, television and video products. The “birthday” of the Mosfilm film concern is considered to be January 30, 1924, when the first full-length silent film “On Wings High” directed by Boris Mikhin premiered.
About the film concern
The Mosfilm film concern is a federal state unitary enterprise (FSUE). According to the general director of the concern, Karen Shakhnazarov, the enterprise does not receive any budget subsidies; its reconstruction and modernization were carried out using its own income. It pays decent taxes. In particular, in 2013 the film concern paid taxes amounting to three hundred million rubles. Mosfilm is an industry-forming enterprise in the Russian cinematography system, employing more than one thousand two hundred people. The studio's production capacity is more than one hundred paintings per year. Having overcome the crisis of the 1990s, the studio not only preserved traditions and cinematic professions, but became a highly profitable enterprise, increasing its profitability over the past nine years by more than 10 times. Over ninety years of activity at Mosfilm, more than two thousand five hundred full-length films have been created. Over the years, many famous directors worked here, whose films were included in the “Golden Fund of Russian and World Cinematography”: Alexander Dovzhenko, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Ivan Pyryev, Grigory Alexandrov, Mikhail Romm, Grigory Chukhrai, Mikhail Kalatozov, Sergei Bondarchuk, Andrey Tarkovsky, Leonid Gaidai, Eldar Ryazanov, Isidor Annensky, Alexander Ptushko and many others. From April 20, 1998 to the present, Karen Georgievich Shakhnazarov has been the general director and chairman of the board of the FSUE Mosfilm Cinema Concern.
“Mosfilm” was created on the basis of two nationalized film factories A. A. Khanzhonkov and I. N. Ermolyev in November 1923, when the newly created enterprise began work on the film “On Wings High” directed by Boris Mikhin, which was released on the screens of the Soviet Union 30 January 1924. This date is officially considered the date of birth of the Mosfilm film studio. Initially the film studio was called "Moskinokombinat". It received its current name in 1935. The emblem of the Mosfilm film studio is the sculpture “Worker and Collective Farm Woman” by Vera Mukhina. The sculpture first appeared in 1947 as a Mosfilm screen mark in the feature film “Spring” directed by Grigory Alexandrov. In 1959, the “Creative Association “Youth”” for children’s and youth films was organized at the Mosfilm film studio, which existed until the mid-1970s and released more than 40 films. The association was headed by Alexander Ptushko and, later, Alexander Khmelik. At Mosfilm it was...
