14 interesting facts about how the shot,

a. The first Soviet horror ... Artists felt that the evil spell of vampires spread even beyond the movie set built around... In the ... Meanwhile, the Soviet thriller shed a single drop of blood: the witch - maiden, frightening philosopher, has taken a bloody tear.

2. The picture was still ... In the Soviet box office film took the symbolic 13th place.

3. Famous Pannochki flights in the coffin, which frightened generations of Soviet children, derive from the fact that under the dome of the pavilion was attached a complex mechanism. All the coffins were black, like Gogol. The coffin was considered a major number 1 - it was lying dead maiden. He flew to the church with the coffin lid closed number 2 - it was he who, according to the scenario, he could not break through the magic circle of the philosopher -defined. This coffin was rushed to the scene empty, and was a little boy. Moved the coffin by hand - with the help of ropes.

4. The coffin was number 3 has been suspended for six metal strings from the ceiling. This is where the witch flew through the church, standing upright. At the base of the coffin was mounted metal pin - bracket, to which the actress wear a belt assembly. Behind him, under the robe, she had secured a reliable support.

5. Before I let Natalya Varley in ... Interesting was the fact that new-found ... A Transylvania has long been considered the birthplace of witches and vampires.

6. Decorations made ​​in several pavilions. Six months of staff ... The film is an episode where a myriad of monsters enters the Temple: Icons fall to the ground, flying down the broken windows and doors are broken from its hinges... There is a huge chandelier should fall - chandelier. Props were not too lazy, and at the base of the chandelier hung a lot of bags with dust. When the chandelier crashed to the floor of the church, everything went numb for a moment: in lifting a column of dust seemed that there was an explosion... And on the set of ... Accounted for in special workshops Zagorsk church candles voluminous book, consisting of wax and stearin.

7. Devil was represented in the ... Nine grown black kittens got crew inherited from the film ... These cats have Gaidai worked in the ... Not only is the ... They were allowed to jump from the elevation, and a jump shot on the wall of shadows.