 A fight scene in the dance pavilion in Fedotovo was done using local  youths. The fight stunt director, Dmitri Tarasenko (qv), gave them  one day of training in the proper safety and techniques of stunt  fighting. When the actual filming began, and director  Georgi Shengeliya (qv) yelled "Motor! (Action!)", the fighting was  so realistic that the entire film crew thought that a real fight had  broken out, stopped the camera, and rushed into the fray to break it  up. Perplexed, the local youths assured them that they had not been  fighting; they had simply been doing what theyd been taught. The  scene does not appear in the final cut.