Novice artist had to cope with the “star” disease.

April 14, 1956, the screens out youth film “the adventures of
Crumbling” based on the novel by Anatoly Rybakov. Heroes of the picture —
high school students who were sent to undergo training in the motor pool, where
Emergency, and the boys begin their own investigation. In this picture of Nikita Mikhalkov
played friend of the main character, Sergei Krasheninnikov, known croche. It was his
the third work in the movie, but the first
notable appearance on the screen.

The debut of mater in the movie took place when he was still a student, in the educational short film older brother, that time sophomore Cinematography by Andrei Konchalovsky, and the film was not intended for a mass audience. Then Nikita got a tiny epizodik in the movie Basil Orda “Clouds over Bor”, there
his character wasn’t even named. And here is Henry Hovhannisyan “Crochet” him
got a serious role its peer with an indication in the credits “Vadim —
Nikita Mikhalkov”.

Nikita told me that then he had
to cope with the “star” disease. “I remember a case which still
blush — confessed Mikhalkov. — I just starred in one of his first
paintings “the adventures of Babe”, and the photographer did a countless number of my
images. I plastered them all over my room and was extremely happy: I
closer to the art, brother. But when I went once into the room, saw
hung around with the arrows. Took her eyes and found modest
the photo of his great-grandfather Surikov. Under the I read the inscription: “Shame on you.
Take the example of the ancestors”. To this day I have in the house no one my own
photography.”