fairy tale and in his hand is one of the dramatic pages of the defense of the brest fortress. a larisa grigoryevnad afternoon let me start by telling you a little story about how i, although indirectly, got to know the brest fortress. i studied at a secondary school in the city of minsk with theatrical bias. and then one day two men came to our lesson and began to scrutinize our class and selected a couple of people. and only then did i find out who these people were and why they did it. it was the director and casting director of the film brest fortress. then i watched the movie and to say that i did not feel anything. it does not say anything, as in your opinion, the hero managed to convey. these are all feelings, emotions, experiences. here is the tragedy of that time, how much they participated in this process and they were interested, maybe they talked with you , studied archival data, how it all happened. you know this film that you mentioned, which left a certain trace of your biography and not only in the heart, probably it passed through each of us working in the same way, because it was