If the separately taken film is a picture of the soul of his creator, then the cinema 20 centuries is absolute reflection of time. The pages of history are filled with both tragic moments and humorous. Witty histories and apocryphal cases that did the cinema such are collected in this book, what he is in our days. And, certainly, portrait gallery of the brightest stage-directors in the person of that progress and development was reflected industries, her aesthetic forming and conceptual variety. you hear about that, who was the main rival of brothers Люмьер in creation of the first film| why exactly Sergey Eisenstein rendered such influence on the cinema| what influence on a cinematography was rendered by painting and other interesting facts and histories that there is under an obligation to know everybody, who considers itself the connoisseur of the cinema.