Гриша Ургант

Director Victor Vilks about Grisha Urgant

We met Grisha a long time ago, about 20 years ago, in Bologo, at the birthday party of a friend of the philologist. I immediately drew attention to the taciturn guy who, during the general fun, fed the birds and smoked a lot without inhaling. We got to talking. It turned out that his name was Grisha, he had just dropped out of college, and we both do not speak Swedish. Then they brought in hot stuff, and we lost each other for a while. For 20 years our paths converged and diverged: sometimes we fished with him on Lake Peipsi. There were unusual things happening there, which can be talked about for a long time. Well, one of these: once a stone swam past our boat and calmly moored to the shore, to the rest of the same light gray granite boulders.

He never studied music, but he mastered any instrument in a week. All these songs are very old material, suffered over the years. Of course, the external resemblance to the famous TV presenter helped him. He found money and began recording an album. In my opinion, this is one of the most interesting Russian albums. It is very difficult to define what kind of music it is.

As for the video, this is only a small part of what I feel and see when I listen to the songs written by Grisha Urgant.

Grisha Urgant about Victor Vilks.

I have no idea who Victor Wilks is. Once, on a fishing trip, some drunk Balts became attached to me and did not leave until I agreed to take the box with the film from him.