This “counter-scientific” psychoanalytic novel-biography of S. M. Eisenstein, written by the famous French writer, is addressed to the reader and viewer who was convinced of the presence of ideological, revolutionary, historical, etc. background in the once sensational Dominic Fernandez, drawing on documentary materials and impartial viewings of Eisenstein's films, focuses on the director's repressed sexual complexes and, in particular, his eternal flight from homosexuality. A new and paradoxical view for us, the combination of the author’s myth with psychological reality, the “poetry and truth” of old films, tracked by the keen eye of an outside observer, will not leave indifferent the readers of this book, which is very popular in France.