Only a true connoisseur of Soviet cinema will be able to answer all questions correctly.
The first Western in the history of cinema was filmed in 1903, little by little this genre gained amazing popularity. The pinnacle of it is John Ford’s The Searchers, released in 1956 – the American Film Institute recognized this western as the best example in its genre. Soviet cinema has developed its own genre – western, which retains almost all the characteristic features of the genre, but its action takes place not in the Wild West, but in the south of the USSR, in Central Asia, the Caucasus or Siberia. “The Man from the Boulevard des Capucines”, released in 1987, belongs to the genre of “red western” – this name he received by analogy with the “spaghetti westerns” filmed in Italy. The town of Santa Carolina, in which Alla Surikova’s film takes place, was built to the Crimea, in the Quiet Bay near Feodosia. In fact, it was a facade that was supported by wooden beams. Once, these constructions were almost swept into the sea – only by a lucky chance they managed to save the scenery.
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