Nikita Mikhalkov. "He is Russian, it explains a lot"

Nikita Mikhalkov is one of the most famous filmmakers and actors of Russia - like any outstanding person, overgrown with myths, legends, rumors, speculation. The author of the book Mikhail Krupin, writer, playwright, screenwriter, first of all, tells about his hero as a creator of famous films - “his own among strangers, a stranger among his "," slave of love "," Unfinished play for a mechanical piano "," several days of life from life I. I. Oblomov "," relatives", "black eyes"," Urga - the territory of love "," weary of the sun "," Siberian barber "," sun blow "and others. He is also presented as an incomparable actor who was remembered by the audience from the first picture "I walk around Moscow." The author and the mythology that has developed around the hero did not bypass, giving an idea of ​​a bright, ambiguous, and sometimes detective world of cinema. In the biography, notebooks, the diaries of Mikhalkov, the memoirs of his friends and enemies, other "documents of the era" are quoted ... in a word, the book is very polemic and, we hope, the reader will not get bored