a real witness of isenstein, and today he is finally with us in our studio, and this andrei sergeyevich konchalovskyly wanted to talk to you, using our official position and the opportunity about you. we must be afraid to take, to quote, here are the shnitki, please, endless quotes, wonderful music, and of course, eh, ours is this happiness that we had the opportunity then to go with starkovskiy together to the state cinema to watch kurosawa, fillini, these, these great, perhaps the last geniuses of cinema, in my opinion, you understand, the language of cinema, as the whole world develops, reaches its culmination and then begins to die, these great directors of that time, the sixties, it was, firstly, a time when... cinema stopped looking for itself, that's what it means to look for yourself, because as the great director said... it's very important not to make a mistake in what you show, but it's even more important not to make a mistake in what you don't show. cinema is interesting because, firstly, it's a captured moment, stop the moment, you are wonderful, on the one hand, on the other hand, the

podcast of renstein's witnesses, and today our guest is a real witness of lizenshtein, andrei sergeyevich konchalovsky, who met this director at the age of 5. and we are talking about andrei sergeyevich's favorite films and the directors who shot them. for me , surprisingly, the new year's film in my childhood in the nineties was runaway train, because it was shown on tv somewhere around new year, well plus there was snow there too, also like in general, well not christmas, but there was something close. the runaway train came about because kopala called me, he knew that i had shot a film, i had no work, he said, listen, there is a script by kurasawa, here... here is takera asking me to find a director for opal, he stayed in america, the script stayed in america, i almost fell off my chair, kurasawa, and then for me it was a god and still a god, in general i took the script, i said, ready, without reading, then i read the script, the script was absolutely brilliant, well, you see, i reworked it and it became not as perfect as... what that script was in my opinion, because it had a much sharper plot, a