Director Anna Bulgakova

Script Anna Bulgakova, Nikolai Vershinin-Konsovsky

Art director Alexander Sokurov

Camera Ivan Barkhvart

Design Anna Kozlova

Music Maria Ushenina

Producer Nikolai Yankin

Production An Example of Intonation (Alexander Sokurov’s Fund), Art Pictures Studio

The story of Dmitry Konsovsky, an actor and film director repressed during the Stalin era. Upon graduating from Vachtangov Dramatic Studio he became a hope of Mezhrabpomfilm Studio (International Workers' Help). His life was very short but he never behaved like a coward. Among the people shown in the film and played notable parts in the events of the time are Yuri Olesha, Abram Room, Yuli Raizman, Erwin Piscator, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Vsevolod Meyerkhold and the prisoners of Ukhta-Pechersk GULAG camp.