A. Grebnev was the scriptwriter for several very successful Russian films, including July"s Rain, Old Walls, and A Private Life. However he thinks that the time of original scripts in Russian cinema is over. Grebnev writes about a paradox of Russian literature and cinema: the time of limited freedom and censorship turned out to be the time of great triumph for the Russian cinema. In this book you will meet many great Russian masters of cinema and theater with whom Grebnev worked: Iurii Raizman, Grigorii Tovstonogov, Marlen Khutsiev, Vasilii Shukshin, Anatolii Efros, Bulat Okudzhava, etc.