Пьянство и побои: как сын уничтожил великую актрису Нину Сазонову

On screen, she was kind, gentle, and wise. A simple Russian woman, a mother, who somehow inexplicably became a family member for millions of viewers. Her characters comforted, inspired, and warmed their hearts. People wrote her letters, calling her "Mom," and she didn't object. They believed her. They loved her. She made her debut in Dovzhenko's "Poem of the Sea," playing a woman who lost seven sons in the war, and from then on, she was doomed to try on this role again and again. "Women," "Our House," "My Street"—films in which she played mothers, and where viewers found their own fates reflected in her eyes. But life is cruel to those who are too convincing in the role of happiness. Off-screen, her face rarely lit up with a smile. Nina Afanasyevna Sazonova bore the cross of motherhood not only on screen but in real life as well. Her only son became her greatest challenge. He grew up unhappy, disappointed, broken. And fate did not spare him. Perhaps he simply could not have ended up any other way. Perhaps the world his mother tried to instill in him proved too cruel. Or perhaps it was precisely this boundless maternal love that became his curse... Some of the dialogue and situations described in this story are artistic interpretations.