ABSTRACT
One of the distinctive features of Soviet history, be it the history of the Party or the history of art, consists in the fact that throughout its existence various events, people and phenomena have constantly been ‘left out’ of it. In this respect the history of cinema is no exception. With the advent of perestroika, the films that were ‘shelved’ in the 1960s and 1970s have become the subject of numerous publications and discussions. The people who made these films have had the opportunity to provide their own accounts of the events of the past twenty years, while many of the immediate participants in those events are still active to this day.
