The Movie is Being Shot

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I was returning home in the evening, and I noticed unusual activity on a quiet street near the Moika River Embankment. I walked closer to get a sense of what was going on.

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The modern sign near the entrance to the building had disappeared somewhere, replaced by a sign of a very different kind. "Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"- the name immediately made it clear what was going on. Of course, a movie is being made here!

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This Art Nouveau mansion, built in the early 20th century, looks very nice, but is not an iconic landmark. I think similar buildings can easily be found in different cities in Western Europe. Therefore, it is not at all surprising that this particular mansion is starring as an embassy in a city in Germany.

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Across the street, the windows of a tobacco store have already appeared, although the store has never operated in this location. Both the store windows, and the door to the store, and the lanterns by the shop windows are scenery, from the outside it seems that everything is normal, but if you get closer and stand right in front, you can see the real wall of the building and the regular windows.

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There was a chair for the participants of the filming process near the gate of the mansion and I could find out the name of the film they were shooting there. The TV movie is called "Fitin", this is the working title of the film, it can be changed later. I looked up the details on the Internet and found out that an eight-part series about Pavel Fitin, the Soviet foreign intelligence chief.

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Workers were busy replacing the street name plate, and after a few minutes instead of the usual blue plate there was a white one with the name of some "Strasse".

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