Leonid Filatov is a recognized star of the domestic screen. The book tells about his life and the variety of his creative personality: a theater, film, and television actor, a poet, a playwright, a parodist.
The author has found an easy and engaging narrative form: the story of his life and work is interrupted by interviews with the actor, as well as with leading Soviet theater and film directors—Yu. Lyubimov, E. Ryazanov, S. Solovyov, K. Khudyakov, K. Shakhnazarov. The book analyzes not only the roles created by the artist in films “Success,” “A Forgotten Melody for a Flute,” “Cranes,” “Selected,” and others, but also reconstructs the process of filming movies and rehearsals at the Theater on Taganka. The book uses on-the-ground photos from rehearsals and filming, as well as poetic works by L. Filatov himself, most of which are published for the first time.
For a wide range of readers.