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Vladimir Vysotsky played to sold-out halls and almost everyone knew some of his more than 600 songs, even though they were never officially published in Soviet times.
With his very lyrical lyrics, offensively denouncing everyday socialist life, and his unique voice, the singer-songwriter was regarded by many as the "voice of Russia".
His marriage to the French actress Marina Vlady also earned him cult status abroad.
But Vysotsky was anything but a spiritual critic of the system.
He lived a restless and wild life: he raced around Moscow in his Mercedes, wore hip clothes, smoked seemingly all the time, liked to get drunk and took drugs.
He made his last appearance on July 18, 1980 - as Hamlet in Moscow's Taganka Theater.
A few days later, on July 25, Vladimir Vysotsky died of heart failure at the age of just 42.
At first glance, his artistic life seems schizophrenic - on the one hand, he is in the resistance and therefore practically an enemy of the state - the KGB secret service has more than just one eye on him.
At the same time, he is a star who makes big appearances and travels halfway around the world with the Taganka Theater.
In conversations with his son Nikita Wyssozki as well as with companions, friends, admirers and followers, the film goes in search of traces in Russia.
Even today, musicians sing his songs in pedestrian zones and his lyrics seem more relevant than ever.
