The city of Sochi, founded in 1838, is currently not only the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympics, but also has the status of the longest city in Russia and Europe. Stretching along the seashore, Sochi has a huge number of beaches, hospitals with mineral waters and amazing natural panoramas that attracted not only vacationers, but also cinematographers.
Soviet cinema
The first film shot in Sochi was "Punished Antosha". Work on it was going on back in 1915, at the time of the birth of cinematography, not only all over the world, but also in the USSR. The main role in the film was played by the famous silent film actress of that time Vera Kholodnaya. However, now it is difficult to say which views of the city are on the footage, the film is irretrievably lost.
In 1917, Yevgeny Bauer turned to the Sochi panoramas, who shot the ballerina Vera Karalli in his silent film The Dying Swan. After this film there is a break, the silent film disappears, gives way to sound pictures and the next film masterpiece appears only in 1954 - "Golden Apples". This story is about a circle of young people who save orange trees.
In 1956, the film "Old Man Khattabych" was shot in Sochi, on which a whole generation of Soviet children grew up. And five years later, the city again makes itself felt, becoming the scene of the fantastic melodrama "Amphibian Man". Millions of Soviet people followed the protagonist's dizzying diving into the water, his journey across the seabed and his loving relationship with his beloved Gutierre.
The scene of the film is Argentina, but the director was rescued not only by Sochi, but also by the whole Crimea.
However, the Sochi surroundings were not always used throughout the film. In the film "Prisoner of the Caucasus, or Shurik's New Adventures" only the mountain river Mzymta, where Nina rescues the main character, was included in the shots.
But in another film by Gaidai - "The Diamond Arm", the city of Sochi not only became the backdrop for comedy, he played a number of foreign cities that the hero of Yuri Nikulin visited.
Such famous films as "The Woman Who Sings" (1978), "Love and Pigeons" (1984), "Dark Nights in the City of Sochi" (1989), etc. were also filmed in Sochi.
Russian cinema
After the collapse of the USSR, the city of Sochi began to appear less on movie screens. In 1991, the painting "Wolfhound" was released, where the scene was the center of the resort town. The famous 2005 television series, which brought together all the housewives of the country, "Carmelita" also chose Sochi as its location.
For his film "Park of the Soviet Period" Julius Gusman used the Sochi nature, which plunges the viewer into all the shortcomings and nostalgic delights of the Soviet system. Sochi was last seen on footage of the Traffic Light series in 2010. According to the plot, the main characters went to the resort, and what other city can best convey this atmosphere. True, a little later Sochi had to reincarnate in spring Moscow in one of the episodes, with which the southern capital of Russia coped well.
In total, in the entire history of the city, more than forty domestic films were shot on Sochi natures.
