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Do not grieve

“You said, love music ...” Kalatozov finally asked. - Do you play music?
- A little.
- On the piano?
- On the drum.
The pause dragged on. The world famous director folded his arms over his chest and thought, and I looked around with longing. In this room, everything was familiar to me: and the photograph where Calatozov was shot with Chaplin (during the war, Mikhail Konstantinovich was a representative of the exportfilm in the United States). Both the takhta, covered with a Scottish blanket, and a picture of the ottoman is a beautiful young woman in an armchair. The woman looked at me with sympathy from the picture. I gently winked at her: do not worry, dear. I understood everything, I’ll leave now.

George Danelia. "Stowaway"

George Danelia loved music - he admitted this in each of his ingenious films, where we, like in the mirror, see the time in which they were shot, and ourselves in a dusty frame of this time.

In each of his films they sang and danced. Especially often the song “The soap of Marusenka white legs” sounds in them. What does she mean?

"Nothing. Memory, ”says George Danelia in his memoirs, a“ stow passenger ”.

“When they filmed the“ thirty -three ”scene“ The performance of the choir of the plant of non -alcoholic drinks ”, I asked Leonov to sing“ Marusenka ” - this was the only song whose words I knew until the end. And I remembered her like this: at the Architectural Institute at the military fees of those who participated in amateur performances, they released weapons from cleaning. But while I was thinking about where to go, all the places were already scored - only bass in the choir was not enough. I settled down in the bass and a week in the back row diligently opened my mouth. They learned the song “The soap of Marusenka”. And then the captain (aka chormaster) came and began to check each separately. I immediately knocked out of the choir, but I remembered the words for my whole life. "

For life, we will remember George Danelia and his films.