How it was №1650 06/10/2000 (2000)

The first Soviet western "Elusive Avengers", 1966.

Favorite movies are like old friends.

It seems that they have always been.

We know them, our children, our grandchildren ... but unlike friends, movies do not age.

For many years the trilogy about the "Elusive" is among the most beloved Soviet films, it has grown more than one generation of children.

The program tells about the history of the creation of the trilogy, about interesting episodes of filming, about people who took part in the work on the films.

The studio was visited by the performers of the main roles Valentina Kurdyukova, Viktor Kosykh, Vasily Vasilyev, Mikhail Metelkin, and David Keosayan (the son of the director-director Film Edmond Keosayan) and director of the painting "The Crown of the Russian Empire" Raymond Janazyan.

The program includes excerpts from the films "The Elusive Avengers" and "The Crown of the Russian Empire", the very first silent film based on Pavel Blyakhin's story "The Reds Devil "(1923, director II Perestiani), fragments of the newsreel" Soviet Cinema "and working moments from the filming.