The name of Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk is known to everyone - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, film director, screenwriter, teacher, Hero of Socialist Labor, People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the Lenin Prize, Stalin Prize of the first degree, State Prize of the USSR, State Prize of the RSFSR. br. Vasiliev, winner of the American Film Academy Oscar. The book by the famous film director Sergei Aleksandrovich Solovyov, created based on his film about Sergei Bondarchuk from the series “Those with whom I am ...” for the TV channel “Culture”, is permeated with a reverent attitude towards the outstanding contemporaries with whom The author was driven by fate on and off the set. His verbal portraits of outstanding screen masters are devoid of banal features, well-known facts, they are warmed by the unique personal intonation of the author, who talks about his colleagues in art freely, relaxed, ironically, but also tenderly, with a lot of vivid details and details known only to him.