It is said that the director is also from the Moscow Film Academy. Then, he must have seen his predecessor's "Andrei Rublev" or even just heard it. However, this is unbelievable. Because isn't the culture of the Russian nation sitting on the wooden beams of the thirteenth-century forest church? Isn't it scattered among the vast expanses of villages along the way to the Siberian penal colonies? Isn't it lying quietly on the Hetao meadows of the Don and Volga rivers? Wasn't it sitting in unattended hunting lodges in the Caucasus and Ural mountains? But no, the director said, in the city; in St. Petersburg; in the court; in the Hermitage.
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