Anatoly Borisovich Grebnev is the screenwriter behind world-renowned films such as July Rain, Prokhindiada, Success, and many others. The film is based on The Diary of the Last Screenwriter (which also inspired the title of our film) and Notes of an Idealist, both written by Grebnev himself. It highlights the key events of his personal and creative journey.

The film-essay is dedicated to the German documentary filmmaker Colin Ross, who was born on June 4, 1885 and committed suicide on April 29, 1945. Enlightener, traveler, prolific writer, most popular journalist: for a long time cinema was not his main area of interest. But in the 20s of the 20th century, Colin Ross suddenly played a key role in G. W. Pabst’s film Secrets of a Soul, and later made four travel films, forever writing his name in the history of world cinema.

The White Guard is the first novel by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov. It describes the events of the Civil War in Ukraine in 1918-1919. The work was conceived by the author as a large-scale trilogy about the civil war, but the author wrote only the first part of it. Confirmation that Bulgakov worked on the second and third parts of the novel are the stories "The Raid", "On the Night of the Third Number", "I Killed" and others. The film is dedicated to the centenary of the writing of the novel "The White Guard", to the centenary of the civil war in Russia. This is an attempt to analyze the scale of the historical tragedy through the prism of the views of a great artist.