Leonid Menaker: directing is a lonely profession

The books of memories of big personalities, about the major time of time - strange and, it turns out to be a difficult genre. If a person did not die tragically, did not burn away from the stormy passions and the near-cultural battles, if this person is not mediode, does not flash the day from day to television screens or in the news feeds, if this person left his life, leaving about himself contradictory opinions From Genius to complete prissthood , it can be said to almost complete confidence that a person who will be discussed in the book has lived a long and honest life in art.
Leonid Isaakovich MenAkher - Petersburg film director, screenwriter, teacher, and in the last part of his multifaceted and intensive creative life - an interesting writer, prose. Actually, creative life is his whole life, his fate. The son of the director, from early childhood, he delirmed the theater, any form of presentation. He himself repeatedly wrote about this - juicy, passionately, with his inherent attention to detail, with constant self-irony. Subsequently, he overtakes and movies. It could not avoid him, as if it was a deal solved somewhere and over. Cinema - love forever. Cinema - blessing and curse. Cinema is a matter of life and a way of life. The author of the films, still in demand by the viewer, such as the Young Wife, Last Road, Niccolo Paganini, Last Escape, Dog Pier, - Leonid Isaakovich Menacher is an integral part of Russian film stronvery and culture as a whole