«Christ landed in Grodno» directed by Vladimir Bychkov is one of the most dramatic stories of screen adaptations of Vladimir Korotkevich’s prose. The film was not accepted by the authorities, was re-mounted many times, finished under a different title, practically banned from the screen and was released only twenty years later. But the beginning was bright, and fun, young. After finishing «The Wild Hunt of King Stakh», Valery Rubinchik had to listen to severe criticism from writers and literary critics, and then win prizes at international film festivals. What difficult circumstances can be the lives of talented people. Let us remember these novels and films, and the authors, vivid, original, immensely gifted and unappreciated, alas, in their lifetime.

Lecturer: Irina Demyanova – editor, film historian, professor of the Department of Management, Theory and History of Cinema at BSAI.