stereotypes, which is why the fantastic flying islands, kandinsky and kiitezhgrad, appealed to natasha rostovasuprematist ballet, and the steam locomotive that flew forward, many, many things, and the obligatory elements of the program with the removal of flags or the lighting of the olympic cauldron, all this worked for the image of russia and all this was absorbed by the world, a global audience of more than 3.5 billion spectators, the fact that there was a lump in the throat, starting from the hooligan exit of our athletes, they would not catch up with us until the very end. ceremony, i think, could be said by many who were in the stadium itself and watched on tv screens, even the critical western media did not change their attitude, to our surprise, already somewhere in the middle of the games they stopped criticizing us and left us only with praise. the quintessence of this discovery was the image of the troika, because the troika is kind of capacious, very recognizable, very special the emotional causes such a painful feeling, because this is, as it were, the essence of russian culture,

it was here in the first pavilion that the famous scene of natasha rostova’s first ball was filmed.who took this score. director of photography of the film war and peace, honored artist of russia, anatoly anatolyevich petritsky. i tried to come up with all sorts of ways to move the camera as much as possible, so i came up with the idea, i’ll get on roller skates, i rode on these rollers, he reached the crane and changed seats, it was such a find, it made an impression on bandarchuk too. all my life until i was 85 i remained in collaboration with mosvilm. mosfil is my family, my homeland. unfortunately, anatoly anatolyevich petritsky was unable to join us on stage today. i felt bad in the morning. but he is now watching our broadcast, and it seems to me that we should support him with our applause. anatoly anatolyevich, dear, get better. thank you for this world that you gave us, because i it seems that everyone who has seen natasha rostova’s ball in their life definitely believes in this fairy tale, and young colleagues, well , for example, i can say that igor grinyakin, who filmed

later, that is , tolstoy has a whole series of them, but there is anna karenina, i don’t know , natasha rostovakolnikov, svetrigailov and so on, that is, despite his eccentric work with language, he managed. just passion, yes such, well, this is good material for art, passion, of course, of course, and they also begin to kill there father-in-law, husband, nephew, in general, blood flowed like a river at the end she also jumped into the volga with her homewrecker, hugging her , everyone of course says, yes, we have the material, everything, but it almost never works out, at least in cinema it doesn’t work out due to incorrect calibration of the degree of convention, because it’s interesting. it is possible to realistically imagine such a story, but it is even impossible, cinema presupposes strictly psychological and strictly, most often realistic, if this is not an arthouse hard, realistic depiction of a character’s behavior, in liskovoy’s characters do not behave like that at all, this is impossible, that is, in the sense of whether they behave unrealistically or not at all, he makes popular pr