again whether it really was or not was difficult to say, but it seems to me that acquaintance with pyryevly very ambitious, he was very ambitious, and it seems to me that when choosing where to go , what profession should he choose, shukshin at some point realized that the profession of a director is cooler than the profession of a writer. in general, being a director is the most wonderful job for a man, so i think that, of course, he entered vgik and those documents with which we have today, they say that he consciously, purposefully went for any actor, he went specifically for the director, and then he passes the exams and gets in, and he really gets in because he was talented, no one argues with that , but besides, he was really very well read, in order to enter vgik, there were not enough studies, there were not enough interviews, he also had to write two more: essays, now these essays have been published, and if you read them, you will see that they are written amazingly literate language, deep, intelligent, beautiful writings of what is called an intelligent person, and intelligence