host, writer alexey varlamov, my guests are the rector of the shchukin theater institute evgenia vladimirovich knyazevr of the shchepkin higher theater school boris nikolaevich lyubimov. boris nikolaevich, how did it happen that this modest young man, who was even embarrassed to confess his love, became such a superstar of soviet cinema, he was entrusted with playing the role of lenin, it’s not a joke to play lenin, it’s not a joke at all, this one, yes? in general, well, imagine, after all, this is lenin in october, lenin in the year eighteen, this, this was filmed in thirty-seven and thirty-eight, which means, in total, so to speak, 20 years, but what was happening at that time in the country in thirty-seven and the year thirty-eight, perhaps, it makes no sense to talk about it here now, everyone has a very big responsibility, because the revolution was made by lenin, stalin, the people, no one from his inner circle. in fact, by that time they were either pushed aside, like krupskaya, or shot, so here is a step to the right, a step to the left, and it could end with anything, in that he looks like l