every right, since he was also a wonderful teacher who trained such masters as andrei torkovsky, vasily shukshin a little later sergei solovyov, let's remember our films about the greats battles, about the fate of man. war, about heroism, love, and today we would like to invite mastfilm veterans, veterans of the great patriotic war, to this stage, these are people of amazing destiny, real heroes who also need to be filmed about movies? it is a great honor for me that gennady mikhailovich kovalev is in our hall, i will now show you a photograph. when i took part in the filming of ivan the terrible under the direction of ezhenstein, i watched this film from beginning to end, i was still a boy, and the big world of cinema opened up for me. during the war, mostfilm was evacuated to almaty. i worked as a sanctifier, but at that time i was drafted into the army. went to kinexberg, berlin, the red star, the mosfilm order did not stop working even at such a time. like war, he produced wonderful, good films, sometimes i even dreamed about musfilm, the memory of mostfilm remained forever, i lived to be 97

were generally very friendly, nekrasov and shukshin, and shukshin read the gospel for the first time in your house, and after reading the gospel, vasily it’s an iron book, it’s still iron, it’s still standing, how in general is this how you feel about the book? i treat him very well with great interest, i believe that he is an extremely talented writer, an amazing actor, least of all a director for me. don't like his films? well, i like it, but it seems to me that the artistic expressiveness of his stories gives us some kind of insight into the soul. in everything there is an understanding of the russian soul , this kind of russian, but for me a writer, an amazing actor, then... even for some time i considered myself his student, although the way of my, so to speak, making cinema, it was different from his , in principle , it was difficult to repeat, it seems to me that klimov is a very good director, hiss, they have some kind of iron films, as he said, he said, an iron book, i would say iron films , they wrote, they went to victor, we called him vika, that's it always, vika, vika, two such young handsome men came to viktor platonovic