they called govorukhin, he agreed to the filming, on some obligations that the vainer brothers would read the director's script, approve the actors, and strictly monitor the filming so as not to allow creative liberties on the part of the director. govorukhin also set a condition: he would cast his old man in the leading role friend of vladimir vysotsky. so that the authors of the novel could not object, vladimir. went to meet them, burst into the writers' office shouting: the role of zhiglov should be only mine. hello, zhiglov, my last name. vysotsky's desire to become zhiglov was self-confident. after all, in the novel this hero is 26 years old, vladimir semyonovich is 40. but vysotsky was at the peak of his national fame. his songs were played on reels by everyone who had a tape recorder. he is the most popular performer, although not an official one. he was not invited to the blue lights, there were no poetry collections published, but he is the leading actor of the poetic, bright and most daring theater of the country, the taganka theater, where there are never any tickets. his