It was learned that Leonid Gaidai’s entry hooligan named “Caucasian Prisoner” was removed due to censorship. Sport24.ru.
Journalists learned about the censorship changes that were the subject of the director’s legendary comedy. At first, the censors did not like the name of the hero Vladimir Etush – Saakhov. Initially, the character’s surname was Okhokhov, but it had to be removed due to parallels with the surname of Aslanbi Akhokhov, Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kabardino-Balkarian SSR.
I also had to change the famous phrase of the hero Georgy Vitsin: “Our court is the most humane court in the world.” Originally, the court was “Soviet”.
But the most interesting is the entrance of the film, which did not go unnoticed by the censors. It is reported that Gaidai wanted to make animated captions against the background of his paintings, where the heroes of Experienced and Dunce wrote the letters “X” and “U” on the fence, and Trus would finish writing “…a dozen movies”. “
Later, the director admitted that he wanted to use this screensaver not in “Prisoner of the Caucasus”, but in “Operation Y”. The author of the idea, Yuri Nikulin, said in an interview with Art of Cinema magazine that Gaidai really liked the entertaining introduction, but he was not allowed to add it to the film because it was inappropriate.