"I'm going to do an interview with Matveev," he shared his joy with a young journalist colleague. I sensed rather than saw the question in his eyes. My heart sank and throbbed with indignation: not to know such a person! After all, on the example of the heroes played by Evgeny Matveev in Soviet cinema, more than one generation of our people was brought up. How to forget him Makar Nagulnov from "Virgin Soil Raised", commander Sorokin from "Walking on torment", Shapovalov from "High Rank", Zakhar Deryugin from the dilogy "Fate" and "Love on Earth", Kirillov from "Especially important task". - Haven't you seen " Love in Russian?" - I made allowances for the youth of my colleague. - This is where the secretary of the regional committee became a farmer and fought against the mafia? I was relieved. And the current post-perestroika generation knows Evgeny Semyonovich Matveev. So, it has survived the collapse of cinema and the fifth congress of the Union of Cinematographers and other troubles of our unfortunate time. And not only survived, but also was able to create amazing pictures, called folk cinema. SPARKS from MEMORY The artist, perhaps, began to manifest itself in me when I had no idea that there was such a profession. There was no place for me to catch this "disease". His childhood was spent in the steppe village of Chalbasy (now Vinogradov) in the Kherson region. No theater, no radio, no movies... However, among the children, and even among my aunts and uncles, I was known as an "oddball". Often, at the request of fellow villagers, he showed how the collective farm bully walks, how the calf pokes at the mother's udder, how the rooster chases the chicken, how... In a word, I was making fun of the chalbashchans, but I couldn't bear to sing plaintive songs myself. And I knew a lot of songs, and for some reason they were all very sad. Why? Probably, because more than once I had to hear about myself: "And tsey is an eccentric-baistryuk...". Baistryuk means illegitimate. ... Читать далее