Do not grieve!

Danelia left. Farewell to Yuri Growth and Oleg Basilashvili

How not to grieve, Nikolaich?

We loved each other so much. We lived in the world invented and created by you, which easily slipped from the white sheet of the screens and settled in us, giving rise to bright sadness, smile and hope.

He did not deceive anyone, did not scare and promised nothing. Only the opportunity to find out a person in the crowd! And even your rusty world in the great film "Kin-dza-dza!" He was recognizable, which means not dangerous.

He, good man George Nikolaevich Danelia - he left us all the incredible wealth, filled with love and charm. Your films and books.

How lonely will be without him.

How unbearably I will lack his wisdom and disputes.

Until the last days, he came up with pictures, plots, discussing his funeral with humor.

“Zhenya failed me,” he said about his friend Evgenia Primakov. - If I left before, he would have taken care of the cemetery.

Remember the farewell scene from “Do not grieve!”?

“Which house should you hang a board, gia?”

- Where we lived with mom and dad. Do not bother!

He left.

Georgy Nikolaevich, allow you to burn!

We need, not for you.

Oleg Basilashvili

actor

He opened our eyes for a lot

Memory of George Danelia

For me, this sad news was not a surprise. But I still hoped that he would get out. The other day he even became better. Plus Georgian character, powerful, stubborn. I must admit, I have been terribly bitter feelings recently.

Lost Seryozha Yursky, now Gia.

For me personally, he is a whole stage of life. The stage of worldview and professional growth.

He gave me a lot to understand what is happening around and inside me. And without teaching me, without reading moralizing, lectures.

Gave his experience. An attempt to comprehend the problem that he set in the "Autumn Marathon", involving me and all the artists in the group.

Therefore, we also puzzled our heads and souls over how to relate to a moral problem raised by a picture. On the question - who we really are.

He opened our eyes for a lot.

I respected a genuine professional in Giy Danelia, who does not scream about his professionalism on every corner, but achieves everything. I will not forget, he was looking for a special “Leningrad Light” in the “Autumn Marathon”, scattered, uncertain, like Buzykin himself. When the sun seems to be covered with a light fog. Words cannot be explained. The operator also suffered. They announced a lunch break, everyone left. And I stayed in the corner. And he saw how the director conjures over the light, moves Digi, sorting out filters. He was insanely demanding in his work, primarily to himself. It would seem that they took a good double, but no. He is not so, he continues to search for the only possible solution. This need to get to the very essence distinguished him from many directors I knew.

I love his tragic comedy “Do not grieve!”. A wonderful picture: in the most funny, careless places a tear breaks through you. This is the life itself that he comprehended. Multi -layer, contradictory, polyphonic. As the polyphony of the guests of the hero Sergei Zakariadze. Bitter fun - wires. I see these personnel departure of a person into darkness.

Gia went into this darkness, over which the inscription "Do not grieve!" Burn.

It's hard for me today. I feel orphaned. People go away, make up part of my life, part of me.

But since I am from the priest's family, the ancestors said that in the Orthodox funeral there is a psalm, calling to rejoice, escorting a loved one to eternal life. Rejoice that his soul ascended up, that we have a meeting.

I thank fate for meeting this grandiose person and artist, to whom I am infinitely obliged.