after a huge, long search for the heroine, the doorbell rings in his film, open the door, then elena proklovailming after some doubts second director alexander mita, who was also her grandfather. and after that, lena proklova began acting , in general, mita already had it in her head, and the actress’s candidacy for the role of christina or rat, as she is called in the film, she already knew, she had already worked with leonov, she had worked with rolan byikov , she was working, in my opinion, even with efremov by this time. and in general, she was almost ready to play a more serious role, in this film this communication with contemporary stars, with tobakov and efremov, according to her, led her to enter the studiumhat school the next year , the film itself about art, about how an artist lives by this art, became for her the stimulus that she may have lacked, she had just finished school, in order to actually start working. and a similar character appears in his previous film there is no ford in the fire, even tarkovsky dreams of directing joan of arc , who writes about this to his friends,

creative achievements, discoveries, to the creation of new theaters, and looking at the fog, elena proklovaays that look, it’s a very poetic comparison, we call it all that the hare brews beer, and the beskremas agrees with her, they gave some dialogues and they seem to be hiding behind our horizon, in the film the bescreas dies , saving kysya, drives away the cart, actually dies from the bandit... they also die, and iskremass must also die after them, only lyonov remains, in many ways alive, these are real artists, like the artist performed by efremov, and like iskremass, so they die we, unfortunately, have a tragedy in this a revolution that does not spare anyone on its path, even its creators and those who create its artistic world, the artistic underside, again a tragic ending, it was approved, the film turned out, but how was this film received? how did mita’s contemporaries evaluate him? well, this is a complex story, still a little mysterious for me, because mita himself says that the film went on the shelf. what do we see from the documents? according to documents , the film was acc