Rare footage and unexpected facts about the famous trio: a coward, and Bolbese Experienced

• Rare footage and unexpected facts about the famous trio: a coward, and Bolbese Experienced

George Vitsin, Yuri Nikulin and Yevgeny Morgunov, who performed the role of the famous comic characters, definitely deserved the title of the most popular comic heroes of the Soviet cinema.

During the filming of comedies with their participation in the archives accumulated a lot of interesting pictures of the famous trio. Today, we'll show them.

Coward, Bobby and Experienced - a vivid example of how anti-heroes because of their charm you fall in love with millions of viewers.

For the first time the trio appeared in the films "Dog Mongrel and unusual cross" and "Bootleggers" in the years 1961-1962 as part of almanac "Quite seriously," where they appear in the image of poachers and people who are not indifferent to alcohol. In both cases, the funny stories about them have ended in a fiasco Trinity.

Next, there were the films "Give plaintive book" (1964), "Operation" Y "and other adventures Shurik" (1965), "Tales of Russian Forest" (1966), "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style" (1966 ), "Seven old Men and a girl" (1968), "These incredible musicians, and new dreams Shurik" (1977) and "The Comedy of bygone days" (1980).

A unique picture of a continuation of the film "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style". The picture was supposed to be about how the trio and fellow CAAX harassed period for Exemplary zone for stealing the bride. Here are just a survey project was stopped

In all three main anti-hero films appear in the same manner. Coward - nervous and sentimental hypochondriac who speaks in a high voice, decimated by the intelligentsia and all the time afraid of catching cold. Bonehead - optimistic and jovial, a great lover of drink. He wears a hat or, or skullcap, and even he is constantly red nose. Experienced - large, strong, confident man, the leader of the gang. He is very laconic.

Report of the First Congress of the Union of writers, humorists. Fotoshutka

Yuri Nikulin poison bikes on the set of "Caucasian captive"

"Caucasian captive" was shot in the Crimea, the three of us managed to do it a bunch of photos. For example, on a pedestal, where they represented a monument to themselves

By the way, the first time and without trial was approved only Vitsin the role Coward - Gaidai confessed that he had seen in this image only him.

On the role of Goonies auditioned Sergey Filippov, and even in the film were thinking to invite Boris Novikov. But when trials come Nikulin, Gaidai said, "Well, it is not necessary to look for Goonies. Nikulin - what you need. "

But Ivan wanted to take Experienced Lyubeznova, but he could not appear in the film due to poor physical condition - it was hard to run away from the dog. Due to the bustle and he refused Mikhail Zharov and Igor Ilyinsky, which recommended that the project turned out to be too busy. As a result, the role took Eugene Morgunov - and that's fine!

Morgunov, Nikulin and Vitsin voicing their characters in the cartoon "The Bremen Town Musicians"

And here they give voice to children's record "The incident in the country's multi-console"

After a short comedy about a dog Barbosa and moonshiners Gaidai not want to go back to the images of Coward, Bobby and Experienced. But in 1963 he persuaded him to do so Maurice Slobodskoy, screenwriter of the film "Operation" Y "," Gaidai and resisted.

Remake of the famous photos

And another remake. Many years later

Gaidai not want to use the Trinity and in the film "Prisoner of the Caucasus", but then to her defense again stood Slobodskoi that is connected and screenwriter Kostyukovsky. Scenario-editorial commission had severely criticized the project, arguing that the trio has become outdated and only weigh down the film. He refused to shoot and Nikulin, who wanted to be known only as the Goonies, but in the end everything was settled, and Gaidai made Kostyukovsky and Sloboda swear that famous trio will be used for the last time.

By the way, the working title of the comedy was "Shura in the mountains," and it was assumed that there will be two parts. First about the kidnapping of the bride, and the second - about the search for Bigfoot Shurik. The second part of the approved Mosfilmovsky bosses, but the idea was rejected by Gaidai.

One of the last joint of images. Morgunov, Nikulin Vitsin and congratulations on the anniversary of Oleg Popov. By the way, he Nikulin had very strained relations

Despite all the doubts, after the film "Prisoner of the Caucasus" Gaidai got a lot of emails from viewers with requests to remove trio again and again. But the characters have ceased to exist after an argument with the director Morgunov while working on this film. The relationship they have had no luck since the filming of "bootleggers".

After that, the trio appears on the screen only in small roles in other directors, which was very happy Nikulin, alarmed by too frequent repetition of characters. And yes, in the last years of his life Gaidai yet reconciled with Morgunov, they remained good friends.