About the art of this great master of cinema, whom the whole world worships, Nikita Mikhalkov once figuratively said: “He created the planet BONDARCHUK.” His time was the second half of the last century, the heyday of cinema. His masterpiece films “The Fate of Man”, “War and Peace”, “They Fought for the Motherland”, acting work on the silver screen - Taras Shevchenko, Othello, Boris Godunov, Pierre Bezukhov, Dymov in Chekhov’s “The Jumper”... This is really a whole planet. And the Artist’s personality itself is unique, attractive and dramatic. In the new book, the creative, moral, human portrait of Sergei Fedorovich is created from the memories of famous cultural figures, including writer Yuri Bondarev, actors Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Zinaida Kiriyenko, Vasily Lanovoy, opera singers Irina Arkhipova and Vladislav Piavko, artist Alexander Shilov, directors Samson Samsonov, Gleb Panfilov, Igor Talankin, Nikita Mikhalkov and others who knew him closely and came into contact with him in their work. Sergei Fedorovich himself was firmly convinced: “Russian art exists and will endure forever. It has no right to walk humbly and wisely through life.” His art appealed to the best, highest feelings in a person, formed and strengthened the spiritual world of more than one generation. On the 90th anniversary of his birth.