Tokarev about Inna Churikova: “Danelia found her”

Victoria Tokareva, who worked together with Georgy Daneliya on scripts for Soviet film classics (“Gentlemen of Fortune”, “Mimino”), considers Inna Churikova the best actress of our time. Tokareva said this in an interview with an MK correspondent.

At the same time, she revealed who was the first of the iconic directors to “found” Churikova:

– The most amazing thing is that Danelia found her. In the film “I’m walking around Moscow” there was an episode where the characters come to the park, and there is an attraction, who will draw a horse faster. And Inna Mikhailovna is very young (of course, if she is 20 years old). And so funny. She was on the screen for a minute, maybe a minute and a half. And Danelia saw that this girl is a phenomenon. After that, he filmed her in the film “Thirty-three”, and then Gleb Panfilov. And she endowed our generation with her presence.

Published in the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” No. 28950 dated January 16, 2023

Newspaper headline:
Shock, tears and gratitude