Film sets often become popular. The same thing happened with these scenery near Moscow for Fyodor Bondarchuk's film "Stalingrad", which is filmed for the first time in Russia using IMAX 3D technology.

The security of Stalingrad charges an entrance fee, which roughly corresponds to a movie ticket. Having bought "tickets" for one scene of the 3D film, we went for a walk around the set where the film "Stalingrad" was filmed.

For one of the main battle scenes of the film, the ruins of the Lenspirtstroy plant, destroyed during the Second World War and used for filming more than one film, were chosen:

The decorators of the Stalingrad quarter approached their work on a large scale. According to Wikipedia, the scenery was built for 6 months by more than 400 people and about 5 million dollars were spent on all this.

Since the film is a feature film, there are many details on the set that should emphasize the drama of the tape. For example, german cemetery with a fence made of headboards:

This cemetery really was in Stalingrad and in approximately the same place as on the set, but it looked a little different:

The fence is not a fantasy of the film's decorators. Just like that, it was fenced mass grave Soviet soldiers on the banks of the Volga in Stalingrad.

The most remarkable buildings of Stalingrad of that time were recreated on the set. Gerhardt mill built in 1903 and destroyed in 1942:

One of the most impressive buildings on the set is the first Tsaritsyn fire station (the original name of the city was Tsaritsyn (1589-1925), then Stalingrad (1925-1961) and finally the modern name is Volgograd):

The real building was built in 1897. In the 30s of the last century, the city authorities decided to dismantle the tower, as they were afraid of attempts on the members of the executive committee:

Such a beautifully destroyed tower, as in the future film, simply could not be in Stalingrad:

Some buildings on the set have not only facades, but also interiors. One of these buildings is the decoration of the general store, which for some reason was renamed the “grocery store”:

At a time when the Germans controlled Stalingrad, the general store housed the headquarters of Field Marshal (the highest military rank in the German army, during the years of World War II, 26 military leaders had this title) Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus, in which he surrendered.

Let's go inside:

The first thing that catches your eye is a chandelier made in the spirit of the Stalinist Empire style, which sways from a draft:

The interior looks like the upcoming film is designed for Americans, not Russians. Each element of the decor emphasizes belonging to the Soviet Union.

In addition to the name of the store, a small jamb came out with a lantern:

Judging by the photograph of the first bombing of the Square of the Fallen Fighters, the lanterns had 3 shades, not two, but these, of course, are trifles.

The Germans apparently were so in a panic that they made spelling errors in the inscriptions. According to Yandex.Translate, the correct spelling is "schützengraben verlassen":

Drama Theatre. M. Gorky, more precisely, his copy:

The feeling that the scenery was made from this photo. This building was built in 1915 we are talking not about the scenery, but about what is in the photograph) and it was not a theater, but the House of Science and Arts. Later, the government changed and the building was turned into a theater. During World War II it was destroyed. In 1952, the restored theater reopened. Now it is the "New Experimental Theatre":

At the real double of the theater, after restoration, the lions were moved. Now they are near another entrance to the theater:

As I said at the beginning, the ruins of an old factory were used for part of the scenery. The basis of this room is just the old partitions of the factory:

If you go behind the wall of the room from the last frame, you can see how the scenery was made:

These walls were witnesses of a real war, not a toy one:

Naturally, the designers of the set also recreated it:

In real Volgograd, this fountain no longer exists, instead of it there is now a parking lot. Although after the war it was restored very quickly, as evidenced by photographs from the first sports parade in Stalingrad, but then it was considered that it did not correspond to the appearance of the city being restored and it was dismantled:

The decorators paid a lot of attention to the little things on the set:

MZMA-400 or 401. This car was an exact copy of the Opel Kadett car, but during the years of the Stalingrad battle this Muscovite did not yet exist, so here he pretends to be an Opel:

I doubt that there was a panel of such a plan in Stalingrad. It reminds me of third-rate shots from American films related to the Soviet Union, or a screenshot from a computer game:

Most of the decorations are made of foam and plywood, and then painted. Kind of like the only blown up house during filming. Styrofoam bricks are striking.

June 1st, 2013 03:00 pm

Film sets often become popular. The same thing happened with these scenery near Moscow for Fyodor Bondarchuk's film "Stalingrad", which is filmed for the first time in Russia using IMAX 3D technology.

The security of Stalingrad charges an entrance fee, which roughly corresponds to a movie ticket. Having bought "tickets" for one scene of the 3D film, we went for a walk around the set where the film "Stalingrad" was filmed.

For one of the main battle scenes of the film, the ruins of the Lenspirtstroy plant, destroyed during the Second World War and used for filming more than one film, were chosen:

The decorators of the Stalingrad quarter approached their work on a large scale. According to Wikipedia, the scenery was built for 6 months by more than 400 people and about 5 million dollars were spent on all this.

Since the film is a feature film, there are many details on the set that should emphasize the drama of the tape. For example, a German cemetery with a fence made from headboards:

This cemetery really was in Stalingrad and in approximately the same place as on the set, but it looked a little different:

The fence is not a fantasy of the film's decorators. In exactly the same way, the mass grave of Soviet soldiers on the banks of the Volga in Stalingrad was fenced off.

The most remarkable buildings of Stalingrad of that time were recreated on the set. Gerhardt mill built in 1903 and destroyed in 1942:

One of the most impressive buildings on the set is the first Tsaritsyn fire station (the original name of the city was Tsaritsyn (1589-1925), then Stalingrad (1925-1961) and finally the modern name is Volgograd):

The real building was built in 1897. In the 30s of the last century, the city authorities decided to dismantle the tower, as they were afraid of attempts on the members of the executive committee:

Such a beautifully destroyed tower, as in the future film, simply could not be in Stalingrad:

Some buildings on the set have not only facades, but also interiors. One of these buildings is the decoration of the general store, which for some reason was renamed the “grocery store”:

At a time when the Germans controlled Stalingrad, the general store housed the headquarters of Field Marshal (the highest military rank in the German army, during the years of World War II, 26 military leaders had this title) Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus, in which he surrendered.

Let's go inside:

The first thing that catches your eye is a chandelier made in the spirit of the Stalinist Empire style, which sways from a draft:

The interior looks like the upcoming film is designed for Americans, not Russians. Each element of the decor emphasizes belonging to the Soviet Union.

In addition to the name of the store, a small jamb came out with a lantern:

Judging by the photograph of the first bombing of the Square of the Fallen Fighters, the lanterns had 3 shades, not two, but these, of course, are trifles.

The Germans apparently were so in a panic that they made spelling errors in the inscriptions. According to Yandex.Translate, the correct spelling is "schützengraben verlassen":

Drama Theatre. M. Gorky, more precisely, his copy:

The feeling that the scenery was made from this photo. This building was built in 1915 (we are not talking about the scenery, but about what is in the photograph) and it was not a theater, but the House of Science and Arts. Later, the government changed and the building was turned into a theater. During World War II it was destroyed. In 1952, the restored theater reopened. Now it is the "New Experimental Theatre":

At the real double of the theater, after restoration, the lions were moved. Now they are near another entrance to the theater:

As I said at the beginning, the ruins of an old factory were used for part of the scenery. The basis of this room is just the old partitions of the factory:

If you go behind the wall of the room from the last frame, you can see how the scenery was made:

These walls were witnesses of a real war, not a toy one:

Naturally, the designers of the set also recreated it:

In real Volgograd, this fountain no longer exists, instead of it there is now a parking lot. Although after the war it was restored very quickly, as evidenced by photographs from the first sports parade in Stalingrad, but then it was considered that it did not correspond to the appearance of the city being restored and it was dismantled:

The decorators paid a lot of attention to the little things on the set:

MZMA-400 or 401. This car was an exact copy of the Opel Kadett car, but during the years of the Stalingrad battle this Muscovite did not yet exist, so here he pretends to be an Opel:

I doubt that there was a panel of such a plan in Stalingrad. It reminds me of third-rate shots from American films related to the Soviet Union, or a screenshot from a computer game:

Most of the decorations are made of foam and plywood, and then painted. Kind of like the only blown up house during filming. Styrofoam bricks are striking:

If you do not pay attention to historical inaccuracies, then the work of decorators is very good. It is clear that people have tried.

True, for the entire time of my presence on this site, I did not leave the feeling that I was in computer game, and not on the set with the scenery for the film, which is supposed to premiere in October 2013 ...

In 2013, a film by Fyodor Bondarchuk called "Stalingrad" was released, the events of which unfolded against the backdrop of the battle for the city of the same name during the Second World War. The picturesque and expensive scenery, specially built for the filming of this picture, was available to the public for some time, but now almost nothing remains of them. A freelance correspondent for Yoda visited and photographed the territory of the former Lenspirtstroy plant even before all the objects from Bondarchuk's film disappeared from there.

The film "Stalingrad" was not filmed in Volgograd, as one might think - the city has changed a lot after the war, and there are almost no historical scenery left. Therefore, the film crew was located in the village of Saperny near St. Petersburg, on the territory of the former Lenspirtstroy plant. 90% of the filming took place here, and the remaining 10% - at the Red Triangle factory in St. Petersburg.

The construction of this plant for the production of industrial spirits began in 1935. During the Great Patriotic War German troops advancing on Leningrad took the village of Novaya, located not far from Saperny, but after a couple of days it was liberated by units of the 4th division militia. The Lenspirtstroy building housed the headquarters of the 55th Army, as well as the headquarters of other units and a military hospital. The building was destroyed during the Ust-Tosnensk operation in August 1942, but the ruins have survived to this day - they were mainly used as a film set for Lenfilm. Since 1997, a memorial has also been located here, which was erected after the discovery of the remains of dead soldiers. On the this moment the territory of the former plant belongs to military unit 20570 of the Leningrad naval base.

The scenery was built for 6 months by more than 400 people. About 5 million dollars were spent on their creation. The most notable object was the "Children" fountain, which became one of the symbols of military Stalingrad after a photograph by front-line correspondent E. N. Evzerikhin. The fountain was located on the Bridge Square, but now it is no longer in Volgograd - after the war it was restored, but later it was decided that it did not fit the look of the city and the "Children" were dismantled. However, in 2013 the fountain was completely recreated.

This fountain is far from the only one. real object built on the territory of Lenspirtstroy. Also among the scenery you can see the German cemetery with a fence in the form of headboards, the Gerhardt mill (built in 1903 and destroyed in 1942), the first Tsaritsyno fire station and drama Theater them. M. Gorky, which is easy to spot by the figures of lions located at the entrance. Some of the decorations were also recreated inside - for example, a grocery store, made in the spirit of the Stalinist Empire style, which housed the headquarters of Field Marshal Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus. Of course, not all objects are made in historical accuracy with the originals, but this can already be attributed to the costs of cinema.

Since July 2013, the object has been well guarded, and the territory has been surrounded by a fence. However, according to people who made their way to Lenspirtstroy, it was easy to negotiate with the guards if they were paid a certain amount. True, now it no longer makes sense - in 2014 the scenery was completely dismantled. From the set of "Stalingrad" there was only an undermined corner of the workshop and an inscription in German.
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About the film "Stalingrad" by Fyodor Bondarchuk, they tell everywhere and everywhere. Moreover, they tell some news that for a long time is no longer news to me.
But I'm not some kind of know-it-all, I just wrote two posts dedicated to this film on the long-gone May holidays.
And I know about it, it's just indecently a lot ... it remains only to look at the picture, evaluate it and make your own verdict!

The film is currently in theaters.
But all the hype around him is not at all another attempt to artificially raise the rating, everything is not so simple - the film "Stalingrad" was nominated for an Oscar as the best foreign film.
... And that's what I thought ... now it will be interesting and most importantly, remember those posts of mine in a timely manner and restore them in my memory ... which I actually will do ... I hope you are with me too!

On August 1, 2013, the shooting of Fyodor Bondarchuk's film "Stalingrad" ended, and they began a long time ago, already in 2011.

The premiere of the film took place in Volgograd, September 28, 2013 and it is dated for the 70th Great Battle of Stalingrad!!!

I can’t, at least just a little, not to say about the Grandiose Battle of Stalingrad!

The losses of the Soviet troops amounted to 640 thousand people, the Germans - 800 thousand people.

To defend the city of Stalin at all costs meant incredibly a lot, in addition to the military, it was also dominated by psychological significance, and according to some even mystical.

And this is absolutely true, because Hitler was obsessed with the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bcapturing Stalingrad ...

And it was here that he lost his last chances for success in the war.

For the script of the film, diaries of fighters and eyewitness accounts were taken.

In order to be fully imbued with this story and understand what really happened in those days in the city, as well as the battle that decided the outcome of the Great Patriotic War, Bondarchuk traveled to Volgograd and talked with veterans for dozens of hours.

He also reports that the most important thing for his film is not special effects, but the atmosphere, and he did not so much seek to shock the viewer with battle scenes, but rather show the psychological tension and perception of the war through the feelings of his characters.

The basis of "Stalingrad" is the personal history of the heroes: during the confrontation between ours and the Germans in 1942, Soviet soldiers take refuge in the nearest house of Stalingrad.

And they meet a girl there who did not have time to escape before the arrival of the enemy.

So, against the backdrop of the most terrible battle in the history of mankind, a love story unfolds...

And here is the very first frame from the film, which was presented to the public in May of this year.

And after him, another impressive shot from the movie "Stalingrad"!
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I think the task is very difficult, it is not enough to shoot reliably, you need to hook the viewer, discard the glamor, without which not a single box-office film can do now.

In his case, one must either madly and all-consumingly love what you are filming, not just respectfully lament and show on-duty praise, but bow before it with all your heart ... or not take on such a difficult story at all!

Still, Stalingrad is not some kind of shooter in the area for you, but a Phenomenal Date !!!
I hope Bondarchuk does not drown out One of the Greatest Battles with an expensive special-effect picture and other bells and whistles, and also does not stifle the viewer with excessive romance-drama ...
... I'll find out soon, but judging by the reviews, everything is as it should be, but for an Oscar, they don't nominate anyway!

Incredible frame!
And there will be many such in the film by Fyodor Bondarchuk!

One of the main roles in the film is played by famous actress, fashion model and TV presenter Yanina Studilina.

In the film, the soldiers defend not only the house, but also the people living in it.

One of the roles is played by Maria Smolnikova.

The Germans in Bondarchuk's film are very unusual - they are not symbolic villains, but living people: they made this hell - and they themselves fell into it.

German actor Heiner Lauterbach as a Wehrmacht officer:

The film "Stalingrad" will be the first Russian film shot in the IMAX 3 format.
Such is the Russian answer to the American "Hobbit".

Incidentally, the set designers of The Hobbit worked with the Stalingrad team.

And all these troubles of special effects are not just a fashion trend and a desire to be the first, just such an immersion in the image that can achieve the maximum degree of realism, the atmosphere of one of the most terrible battles in the history of mankind and the feelings of people who are between life and death, but even in this hell remain people.

Photo of that magical 3-D camera, in all its glory, photo taken from Sergey stukalov_sergey Stukalov ... but how else, he couldn’t have missed such an event)) and didn’t write a post about it http://stukalov-sergey.livejournal.com/196361.html, already 2 years ago !!)) promptly: )
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This shot shows how the fight is being filmed...
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And in this frame you can see how preparations for a tank attack are underway on the set.

1. "Stalingrad" is one of the first war dramas in 3D and the first picture of the genre, adapted to the widescreen IMAX format. On the initial stage of the project, insisted on shooting in stereo, because he felt and understood that the video sequence would receive greater expressiveness, and the viewer would be able to immerse himself more in the space of the film. “I wanted to immerse the modern viewer in the besieged, scorched city of November 1942, to achieve the effect of presence. It's the eternal pursuit of filmmakers to try to blur the line between screen and audience,” says the director.

2. The Wehrmacht officer, the main antagonist in the film, was played by the famous American actor Thomas Kretschmann, who starred in films such as King Kong, The Pianist, Operation Valkyrie. It is curious that his creative career more than 20 years ago, Kretschmann began in the German film Stalingrad directed by Josef Vilsmeier. It was a picture of how a group of Germans froze to death near Stalingrad.

3. Filming took place near St. Petersburg, in the village of Saperny, Leningrad Region. At the former military training ground, scenery of unprecedented scale for Russian cinematography was erected. In fact, several quarters of Stalingrad were built with elements familiar to the viewer from archival footage. So, for example, a prototype of the famous fountain "Children's round dance", which is also called "Children and a crocodile", was built. The fountain has become one of the most recognizable symbols of the Battle of Stalingrad. “It is important for us that the viewer finds himself in this city and feels fear, love and hate with every cell of his skin. We want the viewer to go on an emotional journey so that he can empathize: somewhere to cry, and somewhere to laugh,” said Fyodor Bondarchuk.

4. The house defended by the characters of the film is not the traditional “flat plywood scenery” for cinema, but a full-fledged living space for the characters. With apartments, stairs, corridors. Each apartment is unique, they are furnished according to the characters of the people who lived here before the war, and with attention to the smallest details of the interior.

5. People for the roles in the extras were approved exclusively by the director himself. AT crowd scenes about 1000 people were involved. Costumes, make-up and weapons have been worked out in detail for each of them. There is nothing random on the site: cars, scraps of newspapers of that time, stands with posters of pre-war performances and even cigarette butts - everything corresponds to that era.

6. Set film "Stalingrad" struck by the volume and nature of the work done. Filmmakers launched a real construction site, since it was not possible to solve the tasks set by Bondarchuk using standard decorative techniques and methods. The set, which cost the producers about $4 million, was built and designed by a team of 400 professionals.

7. On the set there were T-34 tanks, a German self-propelled gun Marder (“Marten”) and a heavy fascist tank PZ-IV (T-4). “Of course, all this equipment is a copy,” says production designer Sergei Ivanov. – The PZ-IV was built on the basis of the Soviet T-44 tank, for which we rebuilt the turret, welded on additional sheets, covered the rollers with shields, and applied fascist swastika. The self-propelled unit is made on the basis of an all-terrain vehicle. As for the T-34(76), this is a full-size model made of plastic and plywood. The work was brilliantly done by craftsmen from Vitebsk. The same artists made a mock-up of the downed plane.”

– war movie, so weapons appear in many scenes. Rifles and machine guns for the film were made in three types - for wearing, filming ordinary and combat scenes. In the military episodes, when the Soviet fighters meet in hand-to-hand combat with the Germans, the actors fought with rubber or wooden weapons in their hands in order to inflict less painful blows on each other.

9. Balsa furniture broke in stunt scenes. Glasses for beating were made from sugar, so-called liquid glass was also used, the fragments of which are safe.

10. The fighting in the picture is played important role, the viewer will experience the terrible minutes of fierce battles, when the soldiers go to hand-to-hand combat, using sapper shovels, blades and bayonets as weapons. All this had to look convincing on big screen. The stunts were entrusted to Sergei Golovkin, whose track record includes The Edge and the Russian-American military drama Leningrad, as well as Viktor Ivanov, who once worked on the Moscow scenes of the film Bourne Supremacy. “Fyodor Sergeevich demanded reliability in the performance of all tricks,” Sergey Golovkin notes. - Therefore, we held a casting among stuntmen and many of them were invited not only to perform tricks, but also to play as actors. This approach has allowed us to see faces in many of the action scenes."

11. For shooting scenes of explosions that thundered near the actors, filmmakers used special pneumatic devices to pull the performers out of the epicenter of the explosions. Thanks to pneumatics and acting dexterity, acrobatic jumps acquired beauty. The scene of the attack of German positions after the explosion of fuel tanks presented an exceptional difficulty for the production. In this episode, our soldiers do not stop fighting even after they are covered with fire, and they flare up like torches. “The shooting turned out to be a difficult test for everyone who took part in it, including the camera crew,” says Sergey Golovkin. - The temperature even in the safe zone went off scale, and although the pyrotechnicians did everything possible to keep the fire as low as possible for the frame, there was inhuman heat. Such a number of simultaneously burning people in the frame in Russian cinema was not exactly, as, probably, in the world. The scene was already rehearsed in front of fully prepared cameras. All participants memorized each of their actions. At that moment, absolutely everyone, including assistants and spotters, was dressed in the uniform of the Red Army, so that even if they hit the lens, they would not spoil the frame. We did 96 burns in three days of shooting. At the same time, 14 stuntmen were burning on the site at the same time.

12. The explosion of the building is one of the most crucial scenes in the film, because the filmmakers had only one filming take. If something went wrong, it would not be possible to rebuild the house, but the desired artistic effect was achieved on the first attempt.

13. According to the plot of the film, Stalingrad lies in ruins, and ash constantly flies in the air, which after some time settles in a thick layer on the ground. Filmmakers used artificial ash from cellulose. Every day, several bags of this material were used to decorate. However, computer simulation of atmospheric effects was still needed for general plans, since the mortars did not completely cover the necessary area of ​​​​the site.

14. In the scene with the Red Army soldiers on fire, in those shots where the fighters fall off the cliff, computer models of people appear. They were built and animated in a three-dimensional editor, based on photographs of the actors. At the same time, the animation technology was of a mixed nature, some actions were animated by key frames, and some using motion capture techniques.

15. The music for the film was written by the famous American pianist and composer, Angelo Badalamenti, best known as a composer of film scores, as well as for his TV series Twin Peaks and Danny Boyle's film.