according to alexander metta, the film was lying on the shelf.is is not very noticeable, not very visible. meta remembers that no one could write a positive review, everyone just scolded, but this is not true, everyone generally praised the film, not everyone understood it. a shelf is when a film goes down, they actually put copies of the film in the state fund on a separate shelf and from there it no longer makes it onto the screens, that is, copies of the film are not... you cannot watch it in more than one cinema, but according to the documents the film was released in the third category, this means that it simply had a very limited release, it was shown in a very small number of copies in a very small number of not central cinemas, and not immediately after this very premiere in the winter of the seventieth year, it was released already in the autumn of the seventieth year, that is, of course, it was marinated, kept, shown a little, and there is one clipping, for example from an irkutsk newspaper, where the reviewer writes such a wonderful: t

stas, why is it important for us to talk about alexander metta?laid the foundations for the attitude of cinema as a kind of mass spectacle. this is the new standard. blockbuster, remember, the film crew, a tale of wanderings, of course, made by meta, who thought about how mass cinema was created abroad in general, in those years when he was actively interested in this, he later developed his theory, the concept was further developed about the three-act structure, how any mass film is generally structured, there is a first act with a plot, there is a second and a third, where the culmination and denouement of everything takes place, and meta in this sense is of course an amazing evolutionary... the path of the soviet director, who started with children's cinema, in fact, who is actively he was interested in what his colleagues were doing there, including even participating as an actor on the film sets of his colleagues, and then the film woe-woe my star became a turning point for him in many ways, we are in 1967, alexander mita has already released