Maybe I will not live. Shpalikov G.

The name of Gennady Shpalikov, the poet, screenwriter, is inextricably linked with the thaw, the short-lived, but surprisingly fresh breath of freedom, which so differently responded in the art of generation of sixties. He wrote poetry all his life, they entered his script, became songs. The Steamboat White-Sleep and songs from the movie “I Walking around Moscow” sang the whole country. In 1966, Shpalikov, according to his own scenario, was shot by the film “A Long Happy Life”, which received the Grand Prix at the international festival of author's cinema in Bergamo, but in the USSR he went unnoticed, like many of his cinematic works. Neither a long nor a happy life, Gennady Shpalikov, did not manage to, but the rays of “delicate hopelessness” and that amazing feeling of happiness of simple things still shine in us in the texts created by him.