2023-07-22 17:45:32
He mightn’t do otherwise.
In the legendary film “Only Old Men Go to Battle” Alexey Smirnov is one of the brightest images. The comedian played the role of the colorful Makarych.
Filming in the military drama was not easy for Smirnov. While working on the picture, the artist had a heart attack. Alexei Makarovich put all his strength into the role, and at one point his health might not stand it. After the complex emotional scene was filmed, the actor was immediately taken away by ambulance.
After that, Smirnov flatly refused to act in films regarding the war. When the director and close friend of the actor Leonid Bykov called him to his tape “Aty-bats, soldiers were walking …”, he was refused.
The fact is that Alexei Makarovich himself was a front-line soldier, so any memories that mentally returned him to the front became painful for him. The heroic path of Smirnov was interrupted by a concussion, although there was very little left to the capital of Germany. The actor was sent to the hospital, following which he was commissioned. After the war, he received the Combat Merit Award.
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