Furious temperament, huge talent, colossal public fuse — such is the «furious Roland», as his friends called him. His diaries, first published by Bykov’s widow, actress Elena Sanaeva, are a combustible mixture of stories about filming, concerts, auditions, sketches of scripts, fairy tales, production plans.
Furious temperament, huge talent, colossal public fuse — such is the «furious Roland», as his friends called him. His diaries, first published by Bykov’s widow, actress Elena Sanaeva, are a combustible mixture of stories about filming, concerts, auditions, sketches of scripts, fairy tales, production plans. And the chronicle of a deadly, exhausting struggle, «breaking» through the cordons. A lively, hot and very nervous soul, restless in a cage — censorship, two Central Committees (CPSU and VLKSM), Goskino, lies, meanness, and then theft in the Children’s Fund, which he headed — that’s what these records are. «I want to live, but it’s very difficult…» And yet the miracle of Bykov’s life is that he always had the strength to «start over.»
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