I did not leave

"" Juno "and" Avos" "", "Til", "Star and Death of Joaquin Murita" ... "Dog on the Hay", "Older Brother", "Man from the Kapucin boulevard" ... dozens of roles in the theater and cinema, songs, sounding (Belmondo speaks his voice) ... Nikolai Karachentsov was in a hurry to live. He wrote his memories hastily, in fragments, on the run, as if anticipating that he could not have time. The accident, almost a month of coma - and a desperate attempt to return, again feel like Tilel, Rezanov, Johnny ... I had to learn everything - walk, speak, live. This is impossible alone. Lyudmila Porgina, the wife of Nikolai Karachentsova and the scene partner, did everything so that her husband would return. Love gave them strength, did not allow them to give up and despair. Nikolai’s stories about the back of the Lenkom and the bustle of the set are adjacent to Lyudmila’s memories of the months of the most severe, painful rehabilitation, the first successes and difficult failures on the path to returning. Karachentsov and Porgina let the viewer - and the reader - into his world, under the makeup, under the mask that the actor wears. This can not be allowed to yourself on stage - only in the book. This is the best way to say: "I"m still here. I didn"t leave! "