I Came And I Say

I Came And I Say (Russian: Пришла и говорю) is a film about one of the stages of the creative path of the Soviet and Russian singer Alla Pugacheva; became the second movie in the artistic career of the singer after the film "The Woman Who Sings." The material of this film review was the artist's performances during tours and filming, rehearsal work of the first half of 1984-1985. The picture contains songs, most of which have become hits of their time. The film was released at the end of July 1985.

According to the annual competition held by the magazine “Soviet Screen”, “I came and I say” was recognized as one of the worst Soviet films released in 1985. The film took 140th place out of 141. The film was criticized in the Soviet press. However, according to a survey of readers of the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, this “tasteless” film was recognized as the best film of the year.

Plot
The idea of ​​creating the film came from the leadership of the Mosfilm studio in 1983. In the early 1980s, musical films were very popular in the USSR, and the new film with the participation of Alla Pugacheva, according to the plan, was supposed to bring financial success. Therefore, in 1983, the singer was offered to participate in one of such projects. However, the script proposed by the famous film playwright seemed Pugacheva unsuccessful, and then Ilya Reznik was invited as the author of the script. As a result of numerous discussions of the scenario of the future film - an endless enumeration of possible options - it was decided that this would be a film review.

For the first time, a draft script was presented on February 24, 1984. The film was given the working title “Alla”, and on April 15, 1984, after some discussions and corrections, the script was adopted and the film was put into production.

The locations and interiors during the filming of the film were quite diverse: first of all, at the Mosfilm film studio, as well as at the singer’s house, during concerts at the Olimpiysky sports complex in June 1984 and the Sports and Concert Complex named after Lenin (Leningrad) in July of the same year, at concerts in Yerevan at the 75,000th Hrazdan stadium, at the Sokolniki recreation park, at the Theater in the South-West of Moscow, in the dressing room after the concert, in Finland. Filming was completed at the end of January 1985.

According to financial documents, the film’s budget amounted to 388 thousand 300 rubles, and the number of viewers who watched the film was 33 million.

Cast

 * Alla Pugacheva
 * Evgeny Boldin
 * Lyudmila Dorodnova
 * Ivan Lobanov
 * Boris Moiseev - dancer (trio "Expression")
 * Larry Hitana - dancer (“Expression” trio)
 * Lyudmila Chesnuliavichute - dancer (Expression trio)
 * Zinaida Pugacheva (Odegova)
 * Tamara Kudryashova - a parodist performing the role of Pugacheva to the song “Kings Can Do Everything” (not in the credits)
 * Ilya Reznik - Othello / Spaniard / director, allusion to Nikita Mikhalkov ("Only in the movies"), double bass player ("Terema"), guest ("Holy Lies")
 * D. Semenova
 * V. Trofimchuk
 * H. Talmar
 * Valeria Tsoi
 * Victor Avilov - episode (not in the credits)
 * Galina Levchenko - episode (not in the credits)
 * Nikolay Tagin - episode (not in the credits)
 * N. Kuznetsov - episode (not in the credits)
 * musical group "Recital"

As well as:

 * Artists of the theater-studio of facial expressions and gestures
 * Theater Actors in the Southwest