Alexandr Gromov

When the collection of short stories by I.E.Babel "Konarmiya" was published, S.M. Budyonny became one of its first readers. The "horse army" infuriated him. Budyonny called the essays slanderous speculation and threatened to personally hack Babel with a saber. Defending the writer, Gorky wrote: "He showed the fighters of the First Cavalry better, more truthfully than Gogol — Zaporozhtsev." The writer was saved that time. But on May 16, 1939, no one could help Babel anymore. The writer was arrested. He ended up in the most terrible NKVD prison, Sukhanovskaya. Few people managed to get out alive.…

The film, which has a paradoxically ironic author's commentary, echoes the classic film production of Dziga Vertov "Three Songs about Lenin".

Behind her fragility was an iron character. Even from her own troubles, she knew how to benefit. She studied music... to the sound of sirens and anti-aircraft guns.

When the collection of short stories by I.E.Babel "Konarmiya" was published, S.M. Budyonny became one of its first readers. The "horse army" infuriated him. Budyonny called the essays slanderous speculation and threatened to personally hack Babel with a saber. Defending the writer, Gorky wrote: "He showed the fighters of the First Cavalry better, more truthfully than Gogol — Zaporozhtsev." The writer was saved that time. But on May 16, 1939, no one could help Babel anymore. The writer was arrested. He ended up in the most terrible NKVD prison, Sukhanovskaya. Few people managed to get out alive.…

The film, which has a paradoxically ironic author's commentary, echoes the classic film production of Dziga Vertov "Three Songs about Lenin".

Behind her fragility was an iron character. Even from her own troubles, she knew how to benefit. She studied music... to the sound of sirens and anti-aircraft guns.