The excitement of searching will seize the reader when, together with a naive American film expert, he comes to Europe in the 1980s in search of unknown facts from the history of German cinema during the agony of the Hitler regime. Having stumbled upon the amazing story of a ghost film and its filming, which took place in the remote Alpine village of Kastelau in the last months of the war, the hero will fully experience the truth of life in the era of historical hard times, when any second of life can turn out to be more terrible and grotesque, more fascinating and incredible than the most exciting film . The intrigue does not develop in a sequential linear presentation, but in the course of a painstaking reconstruction of events. Cunningly combining truth and fiction, document and hoax, weaving true names and facts from the history of German cinema, in which he shows remarkable knowledge, into the fabric of an ingeniously composed plot, Charles Lewinsky creates a dynamic collage novel, serious and funny, entertaining and absurd, but ultimately mercilessly truthful.Charles Lewinsky (born 1946) is an eminent Swiss writer, widely known not only in his homeland, but also abroad. Kastelau is his fourth novel published in Russia. This is undoubtedly the most vivid, masterfully constructed, action-packed and deep work of the writer, who never tires of disturbing his contemporaries with reminders of the pain points of recent history, again and again turning to the problem of moral choice in the extreme conditions of totalitarianism.