The film is dedicated to the Russian creative event in the life of the Italian cinematographer and poet Tonino Guerra. In the mid-1990s, Guerra wrote scripts for two animated films by A. Khrzhanovsky, thus making his debut as an author in animation. These are the famous films "The Lion with a Gray Beard" and "The Long Journey". Animated cinema, where impossible fantasies come to life, seems to be the true territory of Guerra. The movement towards Russia becomes for the Italian master a movement along the vertical of creativity, a metaphor for the limitless possibilities of the imagination.

The film is dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Chesme, a key milestone in the Russian-Turkish war of 1768-1774. The memorable date is celebrated in Russia on July 7.

The film shows the creative path of the outstanding Soviet director-animator Lev Konstantinovich Atamanov (1905-1981), linking his achievements with various cultural influences, historical events and his personal passions and experiences. The film seeks, by presenting the main themes and forms of Lev Atamanov's animation art in a popular form, to show its enduring significance for national and world culture in a succinct and versatile way.

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Khitruk, the author of numerous masterpieces of world animation, beloved by several generations of viewers of the cartoons Winnie the Pooh, Boniface's Vacation, Film, Film, Film and others. The creative path of Fedor Savelyevich is inextricably linked with the history of the country and Russian animation, participation in the Great Patriotic War, work in the legendary Soyuzmultfilm studio, a number of students who became masters of modern animation.

Sound version of M. Tsekhanovsky's silent animation. The search for this small avant-garde masterpiece is carried out by two well-known film critics, employees of NIIK, Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev. Film Studies Research brings together film theorists and practitioners, historians, archivists, museum workers and technical experts.