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Vasily Shukshin is a bright and original personality, a talented director and screenwriter, a brilliant actor, a gifted and outstanding writer. He created prose that gave the world literature a new hero - a whimsical sage, dreamer and philosopher who creates his own world thousands of kilometers away from the bustle of the capital.
The book includes the best film stories by V.M.

There is no rest for the Russian people. Always pulls him into the bright distance, always hurts and his soul asks for something, restless thoughts do not let him sleep until the third rooster. What's beyond the horizon? How to live right? What to believe? He seeks the answer to these questions and is never satisfied with it. Such is the hero of the work of Vasily Shukshin - mischievous and sad, talented and eccentric, rude and kind. Russia is alive with such people, they are the salt of its land, its hope and support.