A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Russian: Человек с бульвара Капуцинов, romanized: Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov) is a 1987 Red Western comedy film (Mosfilm production) directed by Alla Surikova, with nods to silent film and the transforming power of celluloid.

[citation needed] Mr. John First (Johnny) is a cinematographer traveling to Santa Carolina when he is stopped by a band of robbers, headed by Black Jack.

When Johnny shows his movie on the white sheet, with the gentlemen who take ladies for walks and tip their hats and say "please" and "thank you", the unruly cowboys begin to change their ways.

The latter is in a much worse position, for since Johnny had begun doting on Diana, being the first man in her life to bring her flowers or treat her like a lady in any way, she had completely fallen in love with him and said that her heart will always belong to him.

Although Harry does everything he can, from burning the shed where the films are, to asking Black Jack to murder Johnny, to stealing the white sheet on which the movies were shown, it all seems to slide off the cinematographer's back, until he leaves to find a wedding gift for his beloved Diana.

The genre of the film was defined by director Alla Surikova and screenwriter Eduard Akopov as "an ironic fantasy in a western style".

Surikova later admitted that the film did not start for her from the script, but from the moment she realized that Andrei Mironov should play Mr. First, who decided to change the world with the help of cinema.

[4] Aleksei Zharkov was almost already approved for the role of Billy King, and the director offered Nikolai Karachentsov to play Black Jack, but the actor found this offer uninteresting, and he asked for Billy King, convincing the director to audition for a staged fight with head stuntman Alexander Inshakov.

And before First struck the saloon regulars with an unknown cinematography, showing on a white sheet the frames of the world's first Lumiere program ("L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat", "L'Arroseur arrosé"), he had already impressed them with his charm and sublime nobility.