What was Savely Kramarov like off-screen and outside his masked role? No viewer could guess the suffering that fell to the lot of the son of a “enemy of the people” who had been repressed; the actor knew how to hide his feelings. In a book by his close friend V. Strongin, the reader is told about unforgettable bright roles that made the actor famous—and about popular films featuring Savely Kramarov: “The Uncatchable Avengers,” “Gentlemen of Fortune,” “Twelve Chairs,” and “Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession.”
With maximum candor, the author tells about the circumstances that forced Savely Kramarov to emigrate to the USA, and about his life in the Mecca of filmmakers—Hollywood.