Soviet cinema left a noticeable mark on world culture not only with its magnificent acting, impressive battle scenes and allegory, masking desperate dissident and protest attacks against the system. Soviet cinema showed the world amazingly beautiful actors and actresses who, with their external and internal charm, and their magnificent natural abilities, could give a head start to popular Hollywood stars. The beauty of Soviet actors excited and drove millions of fans crazy; movie screen heroes were imitated, viewers tried to look, speak and behave like their idols. And, of course, the life of these charming people seemed to everyone to be dizzyingly happy, like in a fairy tale. In fact, fate did not spoil the radiant idols; their lives were sometimes tragic, and the mark of misfortune haunted the handsome men until their very last breath...