"Quartet I" - the best comedy quartet

So what are they talking about, breaking out for a couple of days from offices and families in an indistinguishable holiday home? In addition to the standard set, such frank things as the mechanism of treason, for example, are sometimes discussed. Or here is the question: how can a girl write an esemaski to her lover, without pulling the phone out of her purse when her husband is sitting next to her ... From the feeling of male solidarity they joined the actors from "Quartet I" - the best comedy quartet Sergei Nikonenko, Andrei Makarevich, Alexander Tsekalo and Alexei Kortnev.

But women, and which ones - Zhanna Friske, Nonna Grishaeva, Nina Ruslanova - will not be offended. As in the case of "Election Day", "Radio Day", the film "What Men Talk About" grew out of the play "Conversations of Middle-aged Men on Women, Cinema and Aluminum Forks", after which we caught for conversation Rostislav Hait and Leonid ( for friends - just Lesha) Baratza.


Because friends!

"Quartet I" - the best comedy quartet and Lesha, Slava, on the set was not closely two bright brunettes: Nonne Grishaeva and Jeanne Friske?

During the filming, they never met! Nonna did a lot at us. Yes, and with Zhanna worked well, she is a professional and just a good girl ... (corrects herself) the girl.

Baratz. In general, when they wrote a comedy script, they thought that my wife would play the wife of Glory. But Grishaeva was interested in playing the wife of Glory. Yes, and the director thought that it would be better. And we trust him.


And so your wife played your wife?

Baratz. No, my wife played a comedy girl. And my wife played Lena Podkamenskaya. Directed by Dmitry Dyachenko, she felt that she was softer than enveloping her husband, torturing him.

You have many friends among musicians. Why did the composers of the film become "Bi-2"?

Hayit. Traditionally a difficult question. Why did the music write "Accident"? "Yes, because they are our friends. And why "Bi-2"? Yes, because! Adequate, talented people. For a long time it seemed to us that it would be interesting to do something big with them.

Baratz. And in the end, in my opinion, we really helped each other. Lyova and Shura write very beautiful tunes, in which there is a lot of heroism and pathos. But there was not enough irony. And then they coped well with their task, writing music more ironic. But they also very, very helped us with their pathos, heroism in melodies.


The first betrayal

Lesha, Glory, you're friends since childhood. How did you meet?

Baratz. With Slava, we were put on the handle in one pair on September 1 in the first class. Beautiful story. This in the film can not be removed - still no one will believe that the truth. Close friends somewhere so from the second class. Although I had one more close friend - Vadik Volk. And Glory ... I look - a good boy, invited him to the New Year. Since then, friendship has also gone. And in the third class is the first betrayal. From my side. Glory asked, asked to go to the toilet. He was not released. Well...

Hayit. Yeah, the unpleasant story turned out. I asked Lesha to call Mama quickly so that she would come and take me.

Baratz. And I could not resist - well, how, such an interesting news - and told the whole class!

Yeah ... So after that your friendship did not stop?

Baratz. It was not easy. But I did a great job. The main role in reconciliation was played by delicious mothers sandwiches wrapped in foil.


In Odessa they like to calculate in which tribe you are from Odessa. You yourself believed?

Hayit. My mother Yulia Yefimovna is a native of Odessa. And my father - from Belgorod-Dnestrovsky. They met Dad when they studied at the Civil Engineering Institute, at the same faculty, but at different courses. Mom did not have technical skills, so Dad helped her write term papers, even rehearsing projects with her. And then he became the famous captain and artistic director of the Odessa comedy teams of KVN.

Baratz. Oh, and I have many generations of Odessa citizens. I can not even take it. My father Grigory Isaakovich was a journalist, now a businessman. Mom Zoya Isaevna - a teacher, later - a methodologist of the kindergarten.

Tell me, what were your creative successes at school?

Baratz. The main comedy creativity was informal, not on stage. For example, portraits of leaders of odious capitalist states and countries of people's democracy were outweighed. So we Pinochet became a "fighter for the ideals of socialism", and Erich Honecker and Todor Zhivkov - "dictators."


I imagine that it would be with your parents if they were joking.

Hayit. I do not know. In the 70's, too, this would not have happened. When Stalin died, many cried. And when Brezhnev ... Nuda, sadly, the adorable character from the anecdotes left.

You somehow told me that when you were young you exchanged promises with Lesha: if one of you does not go to a theater high school, then the other one will leave. An oath was given in Moscow on the Vorobyovy Gory, like Ogarev and Herzen?

Hayit. No, on the train "Odessa - Moscow". Lesha was well prepared for the exams and the contest was held, and my enrollment was greatly facilitated by Michal Mihalych Zhvanetsky. After the arrival, there was a feeling of happiness. It is clear that the next couple of years will be very, very good. You can enjoy life and at the same time know that you are wasting time.

Baratz. The train in general played a special role in the fate of "Quartet I" - the best comedy quartet. With my best friend Nonna Grishaeva I met on the train. Went to Odessa. I go into the compartment, I look - a beautiful girl. We talked, there was a woman from Odessa. And we started to brag to each other. I say this, among other things: "And I entered GITIS ..." And she exactly the same tone: "I'm in the" Pike "I'm studying ..." Now she plays in three of our performances.


I wonder how the students Baratz and Hayit settled in Moscow?

Hayit. We rented an apartment for two at Preobrazhenskaya Square. Of course, getting accustomed to a new place was not easy. For the first course six times flew to Odessa. Oh really missed. But there were also positive sides. How good it is to live two students without parents in a separate two-room apartment. But Lesha did something stupid. Already then he began to take care of his future wife seriously and soon moved to the hostel. And a couple of years married. Absolutely stupid story! No, well, everything is clear: love, marriage, children. But to compare all these pleasures with living with a friend in Moscow in a separate apartment, when you have your own room ...

Baratz. I also recently realized how stupid it is to marry at 21! My family is good. And I, of course, do not regret that I did this stupid thing, but to myself I give an account: yes, I have stupid!