In each of his films, director Ilya Averbakh filmed children and the elderly, and confessed to a close friend: “I came to the cinema to film the White Guard".

Director Semyon Aranovich was a military pilot in his youth, and the facts of his biography were reflected in his documentary, feature films. Aranovich's films about Gorky, Akhmatova, Shostakovich, as well as television series are widely known. Among his brightest films are "Summer Journey to the Sea" and "Torpedo Bombers". He died in Hamburg full of ideas. In the final we will see the last frame of his latest film "Agnus Dei", which remained unfinished.