31 июня

In later versions of the film are missing the song "day of the Moon" (Spanish Mikhail Faybusovich) and "once" (lyrics: L. Derbenev, Spanish Alla Pugacheva) present in the film during the first demonstration in the air DH.

The film lay on the shelf after Alexander Godunov (Remisen), with the scandal left in the States. Moreover, the film was shot and his wife Lyudmila Vlasova, who refused to stay with him.

The screenplay is written by distant motives of the fantastic story John. B. Priestley, "31 June" with the subtitle "the Story of true love, enterprise and progress in the age of king Arthur and the atomic-advertising age".

The role of lady Nine planned Irina Ponarovskaya and Alla Pugacheva, and the role of the musician Lamison — Andrei Mironov.

Princess Melisenta wanted to play Irina Alferova Elena Shanina.

Focusing on ballet, the Director understood that there is a certain risk. In the USSR they had the worst reputation, as many people have become defectors. First wife Kvinikhidze, ballerina Natalia Makarova, during a tour in 1970 and remained in the United States.

The whole film, except for a small scene travel Melisenta and Sam in nature, was shot in the pavilion.

The shooting were held in the summer of 1978, just a month and a half. The Director was forced to adjust to the working schedule of dancers whom summer was a vacation in the theater and the movie was in two shifts.

In the mid 1970-ies the composer and part-time radio Amateur Alexander Zatsepin arranged in his Moscow apartment a fully-fledged recording Studio. It was written and arranged all the songs for the film. Although the film was shot quite officially, in a recording Studio "Mosfilm" there were no conditions to implement all the ideas of the composer.

The leitmotif of the film (theme Melisenty) is the melody of the song "Looking for you". For songs attracted leading singers of the country: rock band "Araks" and the ensemble "Melody", but the most unexpected was the choice voice for Princess Melisenty. 23-year-old soloist of the ensemble "Music" from Uzhgorod, Tatiana Anciferova was invited to Moscow in the trial record Alexander Zatsepin. These records proved so successful that it went into the movie without duplicates. In addition to Antsiferovo in the samples participated Larisa Dolina and Irina Ponarovskaya. The song "a World without the beloved" Antsiferovo forbidden to perform on stage, because at this time the Director Yuri Lyubimov left in Paris. The arts Council of said: "How can we skip this song? You can say that we are sorry that Lyubimov defected to the West."

At the stage of shooting the film creators had to face the discontent of the leadership of the Studio. They didn't like the alien-sounding for the Soviet stage musical numbers and too revealing outfits of the dancers.

The ban of the film was also helped by the fact that in the early 1980-ies the composer Alexander Zatsepin left USSR for permanent residence in France (including due to issues with this film). Some nitpicking guide to the content of the songs and prohibitions seemed absurd: the Song "World without a loved one" allegedly called the Association went abroad unreliable Yuri Lyubimov