Screening of Georgy Daneliya's film after Alexander Volodin’s script, based on the latter’s play The Wretched Life of a Knave, is part of the MASP Film Club cycle. The film about an indecisive translator Andrei Buzykin, who becomes involved in a love triangle that he is unable to resolve, won numerous awards at the Berlin and Venice festivals. In one of his books, Georgy Daneliya told a story of how in Italy he was asked to name the director who had most influenced his work. He was going to name Federico Fellini and show a few episodes from 8 and a Half and then, in rhyme, from Autumn Marathon. But it didn't work out - there were no subtitles, so he had to show an episode from Don't Grieve!. But the fact remains that Daneliya himself considered his Buzykin a distant relative of the director Guido Anselmi, the hero of Marcello Mastroianni. A creator at a crossroads, a demiurge in troubled times.

At the event, the audience will not only watch this famous film, but also learn details about the history of its creation, as well as consider the peculiarities of Georgy Daneliya's film language together with film historian Valeria Kosenko.

Duration: 2 hours