Oleg Basilashvili – People's Artist of the USSR, a renowned theater and film actor. He worked with such famous directors as Eldar Ryazanov, Karen Shakhnazarov, and Georgy Daneliya. His partners included Alisa Freindlich, Lia Akhedzhakova, Natalia Gundareva, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Andrey Myagkov, and many others.
Several generations of viewers know the actor for his brilliant roles in the films «Office Romance», «Autumn Marathon», «Station for Two», «Courier», «The Promised Heaven»…
The list of roles played by Oleg Basilashvili is impressive: among his characters were doctors, directors, workers, professors, generals, officials, engineers, and there were openly vile scoundrels and subtly intellectual people. The actor is able to embody any image, to try on any mask, while in life he remains a calm, gentle, and very loving person. In his fate, Georgian ancestry, old Moscow roots, the Stanislavsky school, and the academic stronghold of the G.A. Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater are astonishingly intertwined.
The endless marathon of meetings, debates, and performances became the foundation for the story told in the pages of this book. Open it, and you will feel warmer in your soul.