Ėĭzen: Roman-buff

The novel is devoted to the enigma of the great Eisenstein. A complex, tormented man, he hid behind a hundred masks and was never truly understood. Was he the creator of the fiercely propagandistic films of the early Soviet years, or the author of masterpieces of world cinema? A legendary lover, or a heart of ice? An egocentric trapped in his own fears, or a great scientific mind? This book is an invitation to reflect, to marvel, to be horrified, to fall in love, or to freeze in aversion -- and at times simply to laugh out loud. Such a range of emotions raged in everyone who ever had the joy or misfortune of meeting Eisenstein.