“...Fate gave me meetings with many people, but my egoistic memory recorded only what concerned me. People who write “I and...” are usually condemned. How could it be different? After all, I’m writing this…” “Filling the Pause” is the autobiographical prose of Alla Demidova. On the pages of this book we will meet Yuri Lyubimov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Vladimir Vysotsky, Anatoly Efros, Andrei Tarkovsky, Joseph Brodsky, Larisa Shepitko, Antoine Vitez...