Letters to My Son

When mentioning the name of Yevgeny Leonov, his kind, smiling face immediately comes to mind, and the characters he played in films such as «Striped Flight», «Zigzag of Fortune», «Belarusian Station», «The Elder Son», «Gentlemen of Fortune», «Ordinary Miracle», «Autumn Marathon», «Kin-Dza-Dza» and others arise. An extraordinarily cheerful, warm-hearted, and optimistic person, E. Leonov never fails to lift the spirits of cinema viewers, filling them with optimism and charging them with creative energy. In life, he was a thoughtful person, prone to reflection and self-analysis. In his book, he talks about himself, his work in cinema and theaters, about friends and colleagues in the field – E. Urban, O. Basilashvili, A. Papanov, A. Goncharov, M. Yanshin, M. Zakharov, G. Daneliya… Reading his «Letters to My Son», sparkling with humor, kindness, and at the same time quite serious, one can understand how to raise children so that they grow up to be worthy people.