The phenomenon called “the perestroika films” had its summits. These included films after Pyotr Lutsik and Alexey Samoryadov’s scenarios Periphery, Dyuba-Dyuba, Gongofer, and, certainly, Guest Workers with the brilliant duo of Vladimir Mashkov and Eugene Mironov. But Lutsik and Samoryadov’s lives were tragically cut short...

The Moscow Arts Theater addressed the never implemented scenario of the talents playwrights The Fairy Tale about What We Can and What We Cannot. Young people, director Marat Gatsalov, recipient of the Golden Mask Prize and Artistic Director of the Estonian Russian Theater, and playwright Mikhail Durnenkov who wrote the authorial dramatization. The story was written as a fairy true story.   

There lived in her own house the beautiful Marina Kalashnikova, lived just as an ordinary resident of the capital city; but every night, some mythical events started to happen in her house: the house rocked, glasses were clinking; one could hear laughter, joy, and razzle-dazzle. And in the daylight, everything would be in peace and quiet again. The Chief of the Moscow police Makhmudov intended to shut down the strange mythical house, looking either like a dolly shop or the City of Kitezh; he wanted to take in hand the free-and-easy Marina Kalashnikova. But it was not to be. Once you get in touch with mysticism, you will perish yourself. Marat Gatsalov produced a performance about an encounter between the world of freedom and creativity with the earthly spiritless and envious force; about the unearthly gets away from under control and flows off through fingers.