it’s great that serafima birman, like a number of other actors, left wonderful, very colorful memoriesfilming. in general, indeed, for many it was one of the main events in life, in general, if not most importantly, even birman, who seemed to be proud of her theatrical biography, she staged and acted herself, but - for her, all the same , this meeting with esenstein, with a man who thinks so figuratively, brightly and... so unusually in general, it was such an absolute gift of fate, this is even visible in the letters of mikhail nazvanov, who played kurpsky, so he writes: it’s hard, i got sick while i was doing makeup, i’m waiting, i’m arguing with other actors, i don’t understand what ’s happening , i don’t understand what esenstein wants, and then the next letter, he looks at the pieces and says: well, esenstein is a genius, i understood how it all should work, it’s great, we don’t suffer here in vain, and not all the actors don’t always... but esenstein understood what he wanted from them, but that’s it this highest idea of his, or many ideas, a conglomeration of ideas, why he ben