"Twenty Days Without War", "Mama", "Siberiada", "The Favorite Woman of Mechanic Gavrilov", "The Station for Two", "Love and Pigeons" – films that captured the hearts of viewers and became classics of Soviet cinema. And the name of Lyudmila Gurchenkо, who played the main role in them, became known to everyone.
This book is written by her husband, the famous musician Konstantin Kupeveys, with whom she lived for almost twenty years. These were the years of a very bright, rich creative life for the actress. During this time, she worked with directors such as Eldar Ryazanov, Vladimir Menshov, Pyotr Todorovsky, Alexei German, Andrei Konchalovsky, and her partners included Yuri Nikulin, Sergey Yursky, Oleg Basilashvili, Sergey Shakurov, and many others.
The author tells about the life of the great actress, her rises and falls, personal victories and personal happiness. And in everything, he was her support, a loving husband who was always there, supporting, inspiring, giving strength, helping to endure, at times, inhuman trials of fate.