In 1992, the first Russian horror film "Touch" was released (directed by Albert S. Mkrtchyan, scripted by Andrey Goryunov). Many film critics and viewers have argued that one of the scariest and creepiest elements of this movie is the piercing-eyed portrait. A film-essay about Andrei Stepanovich Dudarenko, a theater and film actor, whose most famous role is a silent portrait in the first Russian horror film "Touch".