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A RassKuzik about the "sprawl", the cow and Pilot

A RassKuzik about the "sprawl", the cow and Pilot

"If you want to live, you'll sprawl even funnier!" A.V. Rogozhkin. Remember the episode with the cow that Кузьмич tries to smuggle across to a relative. Everyone "sprawled" all over the place. The film's director Mikhail Kirilyuk had to "sprawl" and hire a whole three cows for the role of the cow. So that the horned creatures wouldn't differ in colouring or number of spots, the artists had to "sprawl" and paint the cows with gouache before shooting. — Getting hold of those cows was an epic saga, — Kirilyuk recalled. I arrive at a state farm, explain to the management: I need a cow to rent. They write me out some crazy invoice. I pay it. I take the animal. It films with us for two days, and on the third I take it back to the farm. There they look at me with eyes wide open: "But you've bought her! Keep her for yourself! We can't take her back, since she's under quarantine." What am I to do with the animal? I tried to sell her to someone in the village. No takers. They won't even take her for free. In short, I went back to the state farm, "sprawled" and begged on my knees for them to take the cow back. For some reason Aleksandr Rogozhkin was convinced that almost all servicemen have to transport cows. There's a legend that this is exactly how they were ferried during the war in Chechnya. And Sasha is a historian! So for filming the flight the cow had to travel to the town of Ostrov in the Pskov Region, where there's a real airfield. Our people "sprawled" before the airfield management, the management before our people, and we were allowed to film a genuine working military SU aircraft with a bomb bay. The whole film crew "sprawled" and by joint effort we managed to stuff the cow into the bomb bay, and with the help of a camouflage net to hoist her up a bit. The cameraman also "sprawled", lay under the aircraft on his back and filmed it all. And only the cow's legs were "sprawled" later on the computer, by "sprawled" computer people at their "sprawled" computers. P.S.: By the way, the cow was pregnant, gave birth to a fine calf, and they named him Pilot.