Innokenty Smoktunovsky became an actor after escaping from captivity
Photo: still from the film "Beware of the Car" // still from the film Even in his youth, Innokenty Smoktunovsky was attracted by cinema, however, having a poor school certificate, he only hoped to get a profession as a projectionist. Then “Kesha” went to the front, was captured in 1943, and escaped... The “shadow on his reputation” made him fear arrests, and he voluntarily fled to Norilsk. There, by the way, he met Georgy Zhzhenov , they became friends for life.