В ожидании ответа. Отечественное кино: фильмы и их люди

A new book by a well-known Russian art historian is a kind of guide to the indirect paths of the history of Russian cinema, in which the author seeks to lovingly comprehend the cinematic heritage that has been created in the country for a whole century. Articles written over the past decade are devoted to various aspects of the domestic film process - the author tries to consider the history of cinema through the phenomenon of audience hits, traces the evolution of the spy film and the development of female images in Soviet cinema, recalls the Thaw films, creates fascinating and lively portraits of directors - including Yakov Protazanov, Grigory Chukhrai and Mark Donskoy. The texts collected here restore the possibility of dialogue with historical experience, which, like any personal experience, always lives in anticipation of an answer.