Tatyana Okunevskaya. Tatyana's Day

Tatyana Kirillovna Okunevskaya (1914-2002) was a remarkable Russian film actress whose career flourished in the 1930s and 1940s. Her films ("Pyshka," "Hot Days," and "Alexander Parkhomenko") became classics of our cinema. She had everything a young woman could dream of. Her films captured the hearts of millions of moviegoers. Crowds of admiring fans followed her every move. The powerful showered her with attention, hinting at more... And then, suddenly, everything collapsed. Okunevskaya, like many of her contemporaries, fell under the millstones of Stalin's repressions: trumped-up charges of espionage, interrogations, imprisonment in a camp, and then long, painful years of oblivion. But life did not break the actress. And in her memoirs, she spoke of her difficult, ambiguous fate, linking it with the fates of those who had to live in that dramatic time - and endure, and remain human.