The film director Gennady Ivanovich Poloka remembers...
In 1967, during the filming of "Intervention" in Odessa, we lived in the hotel "Red" opposite the philharmonic. One June evening, it was my birthday, we sat, drank and walked, and in the philharmonic was a concert of one of our masters, almost Ostrach.
All the colour of Odessa, all the fathers of the city, the shadows, the underground millionaires came together.
The concert ended, the audience began to go out on the street, the noise-gam, taxis, trolley buses on Pushkinskaya come in...
And Volodya Vysotsky sits on the window and sings for us.
There was silence on the street. I look out the window: a thousand crowd stands in front of the philharmonic, the transport has stopped, everyone is listening to Vysotsky.
The orchestrates came out of the building of the philharmonic - in frakes, too, standing, listening.
And when Vysotsky finished singing, he said, “It’s all!“The crowd flocked...