screenwriter and cameraman at first they saw the leading actors as completely different, when elena koreneva audition , she did not make an impression on konchalovsky , lenochka came, swollen, because of her tears she had some kind of unsuccessful romance, she looked into space like that, so in general she didn’t care, i looked at her, i thought, how interesting, usually... actresses come, they want, i like it, she was sitting like that, but her nevertheless, we decided to try, suddenly a miracle happened, in every gesture, in every phrase, elena koreneva... turned out to be absolutely natural, i’m always with you, well, something coincided, either a child’s, or something, what -this is a girl with some kind of a girl with some kind of inner maturity and at the same time very fragile, like an actress, i scared her terribly, she is playing, repeating something, she... the taste of these strawberries, their aroma, they remain for life, like the wonderful aftertaste from filming, how i love you, human connections, they are more important than these, well, even creative ones, simply because the

they still decided to try her, suddenly a miracle happened, in every gesture, in every phrase, elena koreneva scary, i heard it. when someone knocked and called me by name, so that the actors in the frame would open up like flowers from the morning sun, i had to work with them subtly and sensually, no other film director directed the performers to the desired intonation, he gave the tone as if dialogue, maybe he said one small remark, and we must understand in what tone we communicate with our partner, with lena, understand what a person thinks, how expensive it is to wait for what he will say, this is all human communication, of course, then it affects in the relationship between a director and an actor, as i say, life is too short to spend your entire job being irritated or hating, so i want to love the people i work with. at first, no one considered him for the main role; he was supposed to play a hockey player, who was eventually played by alexander sbruev. andrei konchalovsky imagined a completely different actor, vladimir konkin, as the hero. konkin was a young, capable, very lively boy