“Making people laugh is harder than making them cry”: Yevgeny Morgunov was born 95 years ago

4/27/2022, 6:57:09 AM

The Soviet actor Yevgeny Morgunov played about 70 roles in the cinema, but the viewer remembered the audience primarily in the image of Experienced in the comedies of Leonid Gaidai. The trio of Morgunov, Nikulin and Vitsin gained popular love and became one of the symbols of Soviet cinema. The actor took his comedic roles seriously, emphasizing that making people cry is easier than making them laugh. Another bright work of the artist is the image of the couplet poet Soev in Pokrovsky Gates. Morgunov also tried himself in directing, filming the short film "When the Cossacks Cry" based on the works of Mikhail Sholokhov - the famous writer himself invited Morgunov to take on this work.

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