institute of cinematography, and in order to do this, we invited three graduates to the geek, this is alexander kottlai levvidev and ivan ferdovsky, hello, hello, we as historians, of course, like to get to the very beginning, we will say, here are 105 years, 1919, the most inappropriate time to open the world's first film school, absolutely inappropriate, at first they tried to immediately shoot films, here something it worked. then the film ran out, the first release took place in the twenty-seventh year, that is, 8 years passed, at the same time, if we talk about such cult directors, actors, cameramen, well, those who are known to the average viewer, yes, we, probably, in 90 cases out of 100 will come across a person who either studied at vgik, or taught there, or passed by, such a lot happened then also considered himself an old geek, well, yes, this also happened. therefore, our first question, of course, it seems that in geek, understandable business, it was always there, everyone knows it, but how did you first hear about this educational institution, how did you choose it? and absolutely no