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21 followers · 353 posts · Server bgme.me- Andrei Tarkovsky's name just came up in our conversation. How did you feel about everything that happened to him? No offense, but I'm asking this of an artist who was raised by a certain system, a Soviet one, as it were...
- I probably won't be able to answer that question for you. What does Soviet, not Soviet, mean? When I hear things like this, I'm not offended: there are generic stains, where can you get rid of them? But all these conversations in kitchens, sharp, critical ones, were not coincidental. Or my arguments, say, with my father about the system. In fact, this is a family matter, you can argue, quarrel in the family, but when an outsider allows something - all unite. It's no accident that I remembered VGIK with its relative freedom. After all, when you hear some sharp words for the first time, it's like losing your virginity. I once witnessed a student-director argument, and how old was I? I was only 16, a dark man in that sense. The argument was fierce, and all of a sudden I heard: you're not a Soviet man! And suddenly in response: yes, I am not a Soviet person. Imagine what it was like for the year 58. There were rumors back then that one of the students had fled to America almost through Alaska, such rumors were circulating... Besides, of course Mikhail Romm was a Soviet man, but he was a Soviet man who wanted to be like him. I do not know what his life was like, what compromises he had to make. I saw him in the last years of his life. And he was the highest example of morality, which, by the way, everyone felt later on. I remember what grief there was at the news of his death, what words people spoke then.