Alexander Kalyagin. Evgenia Glushenko Ksenia Kalyagina

On May 25, 1942, forty-year-old Yulia Mironovna Zaideman gave birth to a child. This is how Alexander Alexandrovich Kalyagin was born in the village of Malmyzh, Kirov Region. His father, Alexander Georgievich, was the dean of the history department, and his mother was a teacher of French. Alexander's father died in 1943. After this, raising the child fell on the shoulders of the mother.

The childhood of Alexander Kalyagin

The future actor spent his childhood in Moscow in a family of maternal relatives. As Kalyagin recalls, it was a real “woman’s kingdom”: numerous aunties raised a good boy. But when they decided to force Sasha to learn to play the violin, the “good boy” sat on the instrument, broke it and threw it under the closet!

Like any late and only child, Sasha was surrounded by care and love, all his whims and desires were immediately fulfilled. From the age of five, the boy dreamed of becoming an artist and his mother ordered a small stage with backstage for him - a real small theater. On this stage, little Sasha constantly staged performances for the residents of the communal apartment.

At the age of thirteen, he mustered up the courage to write a letter to Raikin himself. And the great actor answered the teenager. Kalyagin keeps this letter to this day, and in 1978 he read it to Arkady Raikin on the air of the “Theater Meetings” program.

Kalyagin - physician

The mother always took her son’s hobby seriously, but when Alexander graduated from school, the family council decided that he should get a “normal” profession. So Kalyagin ends up in medical school. After graduating from college, Kalyagin worked as an ambulance paramedic for two years. But his childhood dream of becoming an artist haunted him.

Alexander Kalyagin - Song of the glass container receiver

Alexander Kalyagine's studies in Shchuk

Kalyagin’s dream came true very quickly - he entered the Shchukin Theater School the first time. In the second year, the question arose about the artist’s expulsion: not a single girl wanted to rehearse with an overweight and balding student. Kalyagin was saved by the production “Although the date took place, but...” based on Chekhov’s story, and the fact that first-year student Lyuba Koreneva agreed to play with him. Since then it has become clear that Kalyagin was created to play Chekhov’s heroes.

The “black” streak in Kalyagin’s student life is over. He fell in love with the talented actress Tatyana Korunova. Their romance was a secret to everyone; the young people got married secretly while they were second-year students.

Alexander Kalyagin's work in theaters

The artist’s creative biography is extremely rich - Kalyagin played on many theater stages. In 1965, after graduating from college, Kalyagin and his wife joined the Taganka Theater troupe. But Kalyagin failed to “get along” with the chief director Lyubimov. After 2 years, the couple leave Taganka.

In 1967, Kalyagin began working at Ermolova's theater. Over the course of three years, he played many roles, the most significant of which was the role of Poprishin in “Notes of a Madman.”

After a year of work at the Sovremennik Theater, the actor ended up at the Moscow Art Theater. The artist “stayed” in this theater for more than a quarter of a century.

On the stage of the Moscow Art Theater, the artist shone in the role of Trigorin in Chekhov’s “The Seagull”, Fyodor Protasov in “The Living Corpse” by Leo Tolstoy, Leni Shindin in “We, the Undersigned” by A. Gelman and many others. From 1991 to this day, Kalyagin has led his own team “Et cetera”. In this theater, Kalyagin staged several performances and acted in them himself.

Filmography of Alexander Kalyagin

Kalyagin played more than 100 roles in feature films! This is the tragic Vasily Zhukovsky and the opportunist Lyubomudrov, Fedya Protasov, Platonov, Orgon - the list goes on and on. The range of the actor’s images is amazing, but there is one thing that unites all of Kaligin’s heroes – loneliness. Each of his heroes is lonely in their own way, even Chichikov and Aunt Charlie from Brazil are a wonderful paraphrase of the great Charlie Chaplin, a small but proud and free man. Even the cat Leopold, so brilliantly voiced by Kalyagin, is lonely, because he just can’t make friends with the little mice. Well, the phrase “Guys, let’s live together” became a catchphrase as soon as the cartoon was released.

You never know how many fagots there are in Brazil. Alexander Kalyagin

Awards

During his long life in art, the artist received more than one award. Kalyagin People's Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of two USSR State Prizes, awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th and 3rd degree, the Order of Honor, the Golden Mask Award for the best male role, and was recognized as the best artist of the year. He is the Chairman of the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation, a member of the Public Chamber of Russia.

Personal life of Alexander Kalyagin

The artist’s personal life did not work out. His first wife, Tatyana, died of cancer. Alexander still has a four-year-old daughter, Ksenia, in his arms. A year after his wife’s death, Kalyagin’s mother died.

The actor met his second wife on the set of the film “An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano.” Ksyusha liked the young artist Glushenko and asked her father to let “this aunt” stay with them. Evgenia became the second mother for Kalyagin’s daughter, and soon the couple had a son, Denis. Having been married for almost 30 years, the star couple broke up. Dirty rumors and gossip about her husband's adventures did their job - Evgenia left her husband.

Express Gazeta reporters were the first to learn about the family crisis of the famous acting couple Kalyagin - Glushenko.

The article begins like this: “Their love was born beautifully - under the gun of movie cameras during the filming of the magnificent film “Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano.” She ran after him, stumbling, to the river. And then they hugged, standing knee-deep in the water, and cried - the most popular and beloved actor Alexander KALYAGIN and the then very young, charming Evgenia GLUSHENKO. Soon this wonderful acting couple could celebrate a pearl wedding - 30 years of marriage."

It turned out that Kalyagin had not appeared in their apartment on 1905 Street, 3 for several months. Only his wife and son Denis lived there. After “The Piano” Kalyagin turned into the most popular artist - completely deservedly so. At the same time, he was going through a difficult period in his personal life - he was raising his little daughter Katya alone - his first wife Tanya died of cancer when the girl was 4 years old.

EG: “Kalyagin didn’t even think about getting married again for a long time, because a strange woman in the house could cause irreparable injury to the child. He liked Zhenya Glushenko right away - sweet, kind, wise. Later he admitted that, looking at her, he thought: “Exactly such a woman could become an understanding and loving wife to him and a good mother to Ksyusha." And only a year later the actor dared to take a step towards him."

And also - EG: “Let Aunt Zhenya come to live with us,” said the daughter after several months of meeting her father’s chosen one. Soon Evgenia gave birth to a son.

It's all very charming. But this is how Kalyagin himself talks about their romance in an interview (Caravan of Stories, 09/1/2003 - http://www.kalyagin.ru/cinema/hello_aunt/2240/ ):— On the set of “The Mechanical Piano” you met your current wife, actress Evgenia Glushenko? - Yes. But we didn’t have an affair at that moment - we communicated exclusively as partners. I had other hobbies then, and other girls came to me in Pushchino, where filming was going on. Only a year later, when suddenly there was a pause - I broke up with one, nothing was clear with the other - I suddenly remembered: “By the way, Zhenya... What’s her phone number?..” Well, why lie? I didn’t suffer, lying on the sofa: “Oh, what a woman I missed!” Our life with Zhenya was not strewn with roses. Zhenya and Ksyusha did not immediately get used to each other. It was hard for both of us at first."

There is something unpleasant about this.

Evgenia Glushenko endured gossip for a long time about her husband’s infidelities: a romantic relationship with the charming Katya Rednikova, whom Kalyagin invited to play leading roles in his theater. “Soon no one in the troupe doubted that Kalyagin appreciated not only Katya’s acting abilities.” The relationship with her went wrong - this affected her employment in the theater. “For several years she played in only one play... “There was also some dark story with rape. Oksana Gorbacheva submitted an application to the prosecutor's office, then she took it away. The editors of “Your Day” have at their disposal the results of the examination. According to experts, the injuries found on Gorbachova’s body could have been received under the circumstances outlined in her statement. “Oksana refused all accusations against Alexander Kalyagin. And in the decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case, the investigator wrote: “On August 14, 2006... Gorbachova and Kalyagin had sex in a natural form, without any pressure from Kalyagin A .A."http://www.compromat.ru/main/kulturka/kalyaginnenas.htm

Everyone knows how such stories end when the name of a famous person is involved.

And here’s what a visitor to the wapbbs.com forum under the name Gek Finn wrote: “It was enough for me to work for his theater for a year to be forever disappointed in Kalyagin as a person. I remember very well the revelations of one young woman from the junior staff of “Et Cetera”, whom Kalyagin threatened to fire if she did not give him a blowjob... Well, who among us is not a womanizer. But to persuade people to have sex using administrative resources and threats is a bummer. His theater was once rightly criticized for the fact that it did not have a single character actor with brutal masculine charisma and a powerfully expressed libido. Well, except for the entrepreneurial Vladimir Simonov. All the others, from “heroes-lovers” to “extras,” were selected according to one criterion: only the boss tramples the chicken coop in this barn.”

Evgenia Konstantinovna said that she believed only her beloved husband, until an audio recording of Kalyagin’s dirty old man’s harassment was posted on the Internet (oh, you’ll be surprised what this old penguin dreams of!http://compromat.ru/main/kulturka/kalyaginkatya.htm

And don't forget to read the comments.

Sinner: “There are so few real men in our time. Good luck to A. Kalyagin. His wife will not be ashamed of such a man, she is a smart woman.”
Natalia: “But the story about Kalyagin’s sexuality turns me on. It’s wonderful that he is a lively, active man. ... If anyone is deprived of libido, they won’t understand, of course.”

Galina: “I know one thing, that dear Alexander Kalyagin is a very talented artist and I am sure that he is a decent person!!!”

It's clear? Be proud, madam, of your husband's persistent libido. We are so happy for them!
It’s interesting that it’s mostly ladies who think so. This probably happened in their family, when their beloved father ran to his young mistress, and mother, carefully adjusting her scarf, said: “Say hello to Katya, and just be careful not to disgrace me.”

Stasya: “If a journalist presents himself as so delicate, then why does he dump porn, and even savor it?”
But because we read. And, let me note, it’s interesting, I won’t hide it. And you're curious, aren't you?

Again, this is a family affair. However, Kalyagin knows that the artist is a public figure, and could have been more careful so as not to humiliate his wife. But apparently he considers himself invulnerable.

And some more touches to the portrait of San Sosanych.
Remember the story with the former common-law wife of singer Zhenya Belousov? Lena Savina began dating businessman Viktor BONDARENKO. From this relationship, a girl, Zhenya, was born six and a half years ago. The rich man rented a mansion for his passion on Rublevskoye Highway in the prestigious village of Gorki-10 and provided him with basic necessities: German cars, Yakut diamonds, antique furniture and paintings. However, over time, the love left, and Bondarenko decided to get rid of the annoying woman, but keep the child for himself by any means. Bondarenko apologized to his wife, telling the truth about his daughter. It seems that his wife said: “Girl? Very good! I will be a wonderful mother to her." http://www.eg.ru/daily/stars/8336

Representatives of the state who protect motherhood and childhood were very much influenced by a letter from the chairman of the commission on cultural development of the Public Chamber of Russia, Alexander Kalyagin, where it is made clear that the daughter should live with her father - “a well-known cultural figure, philanthropist, and outstanding public figure.” (“Patron” Bondarenko traded icons for foreign currency back in Soviet times. Thanks to him, foreigners exported works of art from Russia. For this he served four years. And now this page of his life is presented as a heroic struggle against the hated Soviet regime). According to Kalyagin, the child’s mother has “complex behavior”, which “plays an extremely negative role”, “the child’s life is being seriously tested.” Moreover, San Sosanych’s assistant, Mr. Yudin, first confirmed that the letter existed and was prepared by him personally, and that Sosanych believed that the child should go to school, etc., and then cuckooed that Bondarenko forged the signature! And Kalyagin threatens to conduct a personal investigation.

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Biography, life story of Evgenia Konstantinovna Glushenko

Childhood

Born on September 4, 1952 in Rostov-on-Don. When Zhenya was a student at a Rostov high school, her mother told her: “You should study in some kind of circle, well, at least in drama”. The girl obeyed and at the age of 10 began going to a drama club at the House of Pioneers in Rostov-on-Don. When the time came to choose a profession, I began to think about a pedagogical institute. She loved the theater, but it seemed unattainable to her. Mom said: "Are you an artist? Don't make me laugh". But the head of the drama club, professional actress Tamara Ilyinichna Ilyinskaya said: “If Zhenya wanted, I would prepare her.”

Theater school

She was afraid to go to Moscow to study as an artist, and Tamara Ilyinichna said: “You know what? Let’s go here first, and then we’ll see.”. In general, Zhenya became faint-hearted and remained in Rostov, becoming a 1st year student at the local theater school. She endured it for a year, and then finally fled to the capital. Moreover, a great-aunt lived there, and her son was a circus performer. Together with two friends from the drama club, Zhenya applied to several theater universities in the capital.

It so happened that the exams at the Shchepkin School were several days earlier than in all the others, Zhenya successfully passed them and was enrolled. Everyone was very surprised how this girl from the southern city of Rostov with a typical Ukrainian surname had such correct, accent-free speech. The explanation was simple. By that time, she had already been studying to be an actress in Rostov for a year, where she was taught stage speech and breathing exercises, and she independently worked on correct literary pronunciation.
The leader of her course was the famous actor and director of the Maly Theater Mikhail Tsarev. This fact played an important role in the fate of Evgenia Glushenko.

After graduating from college in 1974, she initially did not receive placement. “There are no applications for you, no one needs you”, they told her. And then the director of the Kostroma Theater offered to go to him, immediately naming the specific roles that Evgenia was to play there. However, a week later she was invited to the State Academic Maly Theater and was offered the role of Lisa in “Woe from Wit”.

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Theater

And after that, every year she received roles in new theater performances. Among her first works are Cordelia in "King Lear" by W. Shakespeare and Tanya in the play "The Picture" based on the book by D. Granin. In total, over the years of work in Maly, Evgenia Glushenko played roles in more than 20 performances.

For the first time, Evgenia Glushenko acted in a movie at the age of sixteen. This was the graduation work of director and cameraman Igor Klebanov, “And I’m Going Home” (1968). However, this painting was recognized as anti-ideological and anti-aesthetic and, naturally, was not allowed to be defended. Therefore, it is no coincidence that many encyclopedias consider Evgenia Glushenko’s acting debut to be her second film – “An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano”, which he based on the works of . In this film she played Sasha.

The painting “Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano” played an important role in her life. It was here that she met an outstanding actor who played the main role of Mikhail Platonov in the film. Everyone remembers how she ran after her Platonov, stumbling, to the river: “Misha! Mishenka!. How they then hugged knee-deep in water, in a sea of ​​tears.

Then, during filming, the aspiring actress was embarrassed by her famous partner. Two years passed... One day he suddenly called her and suggested going to the theater. This is how their romance began. Alexander Alexandrovich's daughter Ksenia liked the beautiful and kind woman from her first marriage, and since then they have been living together. Later, the couple had a son, Denis.

Work in cinema in the 70s - 80s

The melodrama “Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano” brought Evgenia Glushenko real success. From that time on, she began to regularly act in films. One after another, films with her participation are released: “Cherednichenko’s Big Love”, “Married for the First Time”, “In Love of My Own Will”, “We Didn’t Expect, We Didn’t Guess”... And almost everywhere the actress plays the main roles.

In the melodrama “Married for the First Time” by Joseph Kheifitz, Glushenko played a lonely woman “without much education” who, after her daughter’s marriage, finally decided to take care of her own happiness. In the short story "Cherednichenko's Big Love" - ​​a touring actress with whom a furniture factory planner falls in love (in the role of which her husband starred). In the socio-psychological drama “Zina-Zinulya” - the head of the mortar unit of a large construction site is Zina, a young, taciturn, honest and principled woman.

As a rule, in all her films, Evgenia Glushenko plays ordinary women who attract the attention of men not with their appearance, but with their warmth and warmth of character.

The role of Vera in the film “In Love of My Own Will” was especially successful for the actress. Her heroine helps drunken truth-teller Igor Bragin (played superbly) by self-hypnosis to regain interest in life, work, and find love. But with these sessions she helps not only him, but also herself. In the film, the viewer sees the story of two outcasts, for whom the only way to survive in society was self-hypnosis. Vera and Igor escape into a little love harmony, and she protects the lovers from social disharmony.

Back on the screen

Since the late 80s, Evgenia Glushenko has practically stopped acting in films. Only a decade later, in 1997, she again appears on the screen in one of the main roles in Nikolai Dostal’s eccentric comedy “Policemen and Thieves.”

This picture began a new period in the film biography of the actress. In the late 90s, she starred in the TV series “Waiting Room” and “With New Happiness!”, as well as in the Russian-Belarusian tragicomedy “Three Women and a Man”, where together they played two middle-aged women in love with a young hairdresser () .

After that, in the 2000s, she appeared on screens more than once.

Family

Father - Glushenko Konstantin Ivanovich (born 1924).

Mother - Glushenko Olga Anatolyevna.

Spouse - Kalyagin Alexander Alexandrovich (born 1942), chairman of the Union of Theater Workers, People's Artist of Russia.

Son - Kalyagin Denis Alexandrovich (born 1980).

Daughter - Kalyagina Ksenia Aleksandrovna.

Evgenia Konstantinovna became a reliable, eternal rear for her husband.

The biography of Evgenia Glushenko is not so rich in film work - only 18 over almost fifty years of acting career, but each role is a real masterpiece. Perhaps it was precisely thanks to the selectivity with which the actress always treated the filming process, always making a choice in favor of a high-quality script and professional partners, that films with her participation entered the collection of classic Russian cinema, and she herself became a legend and an example for subsequent generations of actors . She is not one of the artists who enjoys the hype around her name, and therefore about personal life of Evgenia Glushenko not much is known.

The biography of Evgenia Glushenko began in Rostov-on-Don 63 years ago, at the beginning of September in an ordinary Soviet family. Being an obedient daughter, one day she heeded her mother’s suggestion to enroll in a theater club at the local Palace of Pioneers, which subsequently drew her into the mysterious world of theater. At the same time, Evgenia Glushenko was quite timid, and therefore, dreaming of the theater, she planned to connect her fate with pedagogy. And the mother of the future actress was extremely skeptical about her theatrical career. Only the head of the drama club believed in the girl’s bright theatrical future. It was she who convinced her pupil to try her hand at least at the Rostov Theater School, if she was afraid to go to the capital. Evgenia Glushenko studied there for only a year, and began the next academic year as a student at the Shchepkinsky School. Literally immediately after graduation, the young actress got a job in the Maly Theater troupe, where she has served to this day throughout her entire career, with a four-year break when she worked on the stage of the Soviet Army Theater. Despite the fact that Evgenia Glushenko began acting in films at the age of 16, she does not have many on-screen roles due to her pickiness and firm belief that her vocation is only the theater stage.

In 1977, while working on the painting “An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano,” the heroine of our article met Alexander Kalyagin, already famous at that time. And the very next year she became his wife, replacing his daughter’s mother, who died of cancer. Two years after the wedding, a son, Denis, appeared in the family of artists. The actress has never been distinguished by her desire for frank communication with journalists and representatives of the press, and therefore her personal life proceeded quietly, without loud scandals. However, several years ago it became known about Alexander Kalyagin’s numerous infidelities, and publications appeared in the press about his romantic and not so romantic adventures. As a result, their once strong and happy family fell apart. At the same time, Evgenia Glushenko did not consider it necessary to comment anything to the press this time.

RIA Novosti, Sergei Pyatakov

Evgenia was born in Rostov-on-Don, and was a very modest and even uptight girl. The parents were very worried about Zhenya’s excessive shyness. To overcome this line, the mother sent her daughter to a drama club at the House of Pioneers.

Zhenya began to study with pleasure. Over time, the schoolgirl liked the new hobby so much that she spent days and nights in the circle. However, she was in no hurry to connect her life with the theater. The girl still lacked self-confidence.

As a high school student, she had already outlined a completely different path for herself: she was going to enter the pedagogical school. Zhenya was preparing exactly until the moment when the head of the drama club found out about her plans. She was very upset that the talented pupil did not want to continue to study dramatic art.

The manager talked in detail with Evgenia and found out that the main reason for her reluctance was the same shyness and fear of not passing the entrance examination. Then the teacher began to prepare the girl for admission to the Rostov Theater Institute. To Zhenya’s surprise, the admissions committee approved the shy applicant’s candidacy the first time.

However, Glushenko studied in Rostov for only one year, after which, in the company of two more students from the same drama club, she set off to conquer Moscow.

Capital

Woe from Wit (1977)

There was no limit to Zhenya’s excitement when she submitted documents to all theater universities in the capital. The first was the exam at Shchepka, during which she was most worried: she mentally packed her bags to go back to Rostov, and was already regretting the idea.

However, the acting talent of the subtle and light Zhenechka was examined here too. At her first university, Glushenko received recognition, and at the end of the exams she saw her name on the list of those enrolled.

The years of study flew by quickly, and in the last year of college it became clear: the overly lyrical and not at all modern young lady from the provinces did not attract the attention of a single capital theater. Evgenia was told in plain text: there is no distribution for you, no one needs you.

She even stopped worrying. I decided that I would return to my hometown and arrange my life there. While Zhenya was once again packing her bags, she was immediately called to the rector. It turned out that two directors came for the actress at once. One called her to the Kostroma Regional Theater, the other - to play the role of Lisa in “Woe from Wit” at the Maly Theater. Of course, the actress agreed to the second one without hesitation.

Evgenia Konstantinovna admits: in Kostroma she would have had a chance to play many more roles, but who in their right mind could refuse the role of Lisa? Having come for one heroine, Glushenko stayed there for many years and became famous as a truly good dramatic actress.

Mikhalkov

Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977)

Few people know that the role of Sashenka in “An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano” was not Zhenya’s debut. She first came to the set at the age of 16 - with student Nikita Mikhalkov, who was filming his thesis “And I’m leaving home.”

But the picture did not suit the court. It was recognized as anti-aesthetic and they decided that the young director here was going against the great socialist idea. The painting was not allowed to be protected.

Almost a dozen years later, Nikita Sergeevich tried Glushenko for his “Unfinished Play...” and approved it. The actress admits that she is very grateful to Mikhalkov and fate for such a role. After her, Evgenia Konstantinovna was often invited to play such characters, but she refused.

Having once felt a taste for good cinema, I no longer wanted to waste money on films of a lower level or repeat myself. Glushenko was never an “omnivore” and did not act in films just for the sake of being on screen.

Kalyagin

Married for the first time (1979)

In the same “Unfinished Play...” the already middle-aged, already famous, who had already played his stunning “aunt from Brazil,” the inimitable Alexander Kalyagin stood in front of “Sasha” on his knees. The actors' kisses were fictitious by the scriptwriters, but the feelings turned out to be genuine.

After the death of his first wife, Alexander Alexandrovich for a long time did not dare to bring a new wife into the house - he was very afraid of hurting his growing daughter. But sincere and so dear, Evgenia Konstantinovna completely charmed both the actor and little Ksyusha.

After meeting Glushenko, the girl’s verdict was unequivocal: “Let Aunt Zhenya come to live with us!”, decided Kalyagin’s daughter.

They got married, and two years later the couple had a son together, Denis. Both of Kalyagin’s children studied in the USA, Ksenia remained to live there, and Denis returned to Russia and works as a journalist.

Scandals

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There is no official information that this couple, having lived together for almost thirty years, officially divorced, but there is evidence of sex scandals in which the legendary artist was involved.

First there were rumors about his affair with a young actress, then - a story about rape, which, however, ended with the “victim” withdrawing the statement from the prosecutor’s office... And then the media reported an intimate conversation between Kalyagin and a young girl, in which his voice was impossible to recognize.

Wise Evgenia did not react to gossip for a long time. To direct questions, my husband always answered that these were all lies and rumors, which are not uncommon in the theater environment. But, having heard the recording of such a familiar voice of her husband, Evgenia Konstantinovna could no longer doubt his infidelity and, allegedly, she herself asked Alexander Alexandrovich to live separately.

When journalists, preparing to congratulate the couple on their thirtieth anniversary of marriage, wanted to write the couple’s love story, Glushenko sharply refused, commenting on the situation only with the phrase that she did not want to let reporters into her personal life.

It is known that now Evgenia Konstantinovna is not acting, devoting all her free time to the theater and teaching professional skills in her native “Shchepka”.

In love by choice (1982)