Low truths

The memoirs of the famous Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky “Low Truths” were published more than fifteen years ago. This extremely personal, frank book survived several successful reprints, probably because it reads as a novel - with enthusiasm, excitedly. The novel about the people with whom fate was reduced. Roman about creativity and inspiration. A novel about love and life. Konchalovsky is sure that “life is our personal experiment and someone else's still above us. Life is so short that you need to try to make all possible mistakes until it ended. The purpose of life is to see, and everything else is a big illusion... ” This is the story of the life and work of the artist, which is rightly characterized by the Pushkin lines: “Darkness of low truths is more expensive for me / of us a rise of deception”...