Harold Pinter - English playwright, poet, director, actor, public figure; winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2005. One of the most influential British playwrights of his time. Two London losers find a third man who has sunk even lower than themselves, and hire him to guard an empty, cluttered apartment. The poor, dirty, bestial, cynical, chauvinistically embittered old man, or “scourge” as they are called today, turns out to be in demand. Society not only needs an “empty man,” “a man without qualities,” but society also needs a watchman. In the terrible, blurred face of the Watchman, European culture experiences its impending weakness in front of the forces ready to come, destroy the old civilization and self-destruct, because these are simple and single-celled strength. (Pavel Rudnev)