Girlfriend of the master and the master herself

There is no more legendary pocket

A friend of the master and the master herself. Not only a scenario word, not only a cinema craft - common with a German of a complex life, in which everything changed, collapsed, smeared, smoothed, bloomed and exploded - and each time she arranged everything again.

It combined happy frivolity and every second readiness to go ahead. For years they wrote scripts under the name of Karmalit. On the site, she restrained the Master throwing, adjusted the order of the order and received cuffs for the entire troupe. It was not just decisive - brave . It was not without reason that Konstantin Simonov signed the first post of “twenty days without a war”: “The most brave in our far from the timid company.”

She knew how to remain equal to the genius, and this is what he told about her himself.

- When we write, we argue to death. I feel Svetka on the back, by the way she sits, twisting, tolerate, then he says caustically: "Yes, Lesha, it did not work out!" And it went like the stones rolled.

We had a script that she grabbed from a burning stove. She mocked me so much that I took and threw the manuscript into the stove. Sveta, as she began to throw her away from there, glue it! .. In Sosnovo, we lived then. Life was happy.

Herman would not be able to coexist with a woman who does not understand jokes. Karmalita understood everything. In appearance, humble, she always remained a subtle master of intrigue, weaved, “to make Leshechka good,” and owned an unlimited range of roles - from Machiavelli to the assignor. How many times did you smooth out conflicts on the set, put everyone ...

- On the set, I generally try to work with me, from it, both of me and the picture, but she most of all likes to lead the movements of the masses or take part in resolving the issue from whom the installer is pregnant (even her, Svetkin, the husband is not connected with this) ...

Karmalit brought Herman to the brackets of all worries. I weaned to turn on gas, repair traffic jams, explain with malyars, plumbers and taxi drivers. In real life, he was helpless as much as he was in art.

“She deliberately does it,” he told me angrily in Repino, where I came to take another interview from him. - We quarreled, she left for Moscow, and now even not to drink coffee - the devil knows how to turn on a coffee maker! We must learn to do everything yourself, but as soon as I learn, she will return!

I remember how I saw them for the first time at Lenfilm many years ago. He is loud and cocky, she is a quiet sparrow.

“Do you think who is the main one?” -a friend-kinoshchik asked me.

I looked at him like an idiot: "Herman, of course!"

- And here is not! It's more complicated ...

Years passed, and I myself asked Alexei Yuryevich about the historical role of Svetlana Igorevna.

-I would have abandoned this profession a long time ago, did not survive all these wild humiliations, would not have heart attack and hypertension because of this, and I would not have removed anything if it was ...

... Somehow during the filming of Khrustalev, duplicate in the viewing hall watched for many hours in a row. The cheerful assistant director parsed with tea and plowed cheerfully. Finally Herman said gloomily:

- Imagine, I would divorce with Svetka, married such, wake up, and she chirping, chirping, chirping - so he would have killed!

... When Herman was filming, he was able to talk only about work. Within eight hours of shift, there are many interlocutors, the rest of the time - one Svetlana.

Once she left, Herman, so as not to be at home alone, asked a friend to live with him. After 15 hours of conversations about the filming picture, a friend timidly suggested that they disperse the rooms and read. And a minute later I heard a telephone conversation with Moscow in the next room:

- Sveta, he hates me! He does not want to talk to me!

How do I remember her? Skeptical. Busy. Always in a hurry somewhere. Greedy to impressions, funny in spite of everything.

- ... Mom was afraid that I would be left alone in front of this terrible life. But when the Major of the armored troops came and said: we will put the left flank on the right, and the right - on the left, my mother, of course, was taken aback. They did not swear - but they were silent at each other. Like Schwartz: Do you hear how the people are silent? And when I complained to Simonov that I would hang from them, he told me: “Lesha, I was married five times, and my mother could never forgive me for this.”

She had a fantastic gift of learning environment. In all the spaces where they lived, the famous apartment on Marsov, who remained Herman from his parents, “General” apartment in a potter, bought when they decided to move to Moscow, an apartment in Kronverksky in St. Petersburg, when they decided to stay forever - she cooked, wrote, treated, scandalized, “introduced clarity” and guarded Leshin Leshina.

But when it was about “ideology”, about Germanic insights, about political positions, and removed all the prohibitions. I could call with the words: "We believe, we must speak out!"

When he was gone, she found a lot of things to do. She negotiated, created an archive, organized processes on Lenfilm. I answered the questions the same way: everything is in order! I tried to live without him. It did not work out.