“Don’t Tell Mom” and other stories about novels, your own and others’, as well as memoirs, articles, interviews with film playwright Natalia Ryazantseva. In the book of the famous film playwright Natalia Ryazantseva, “one of the most reserved and reserved women of Russian cinema” (D. Bykov ), the author of scripts for the films “Other People's Letters”, “Long Farewell”, “The Voice”, “Portrait of the Artist’s Wife” included memories of work, love, friendship with people whose names have become iconic for the Russian cinema. This is a book about VGIK, about Gennady Shpalikov and Larisa Shepitko, about Kira Muratova and Ilya Averbakh, Alexander Galich, about my teacher E.O. Gabrilovich about unrealized scenarios. The reader will also find here the author’s fiction and articles about cinema. The design uses a fragment of a drawing by Vladimir Keidan