In distant 1968 to the year a film "Space Odyssey of 2001", Stanly Кубриком taken off by a young and known to nobody stage-director, was coolly enough met by critics. They met on that a film does not have the strong protagonist a narration would go round that, and dialogues, and the most authoritative critics quite considered him incomprehensible and uninteresting. In spite of it, an audience lined up in a turn before the cinemas, and after a few years a film deserved status of the classics of genre, on that such stage-directors as Stephen Спилберг, George Lucas equaled afterwards, Ридли Scott and James Кэмерон.This book is a contribution of respect to the film, that is today considered the best science fiction film in history of Hollywood on the version of the American institute of the cinema, and his creators - stage-director to Stanly Кубрику and writer to Arthur to Clark. An author succeeded to talk with all participant to the film and to tell new, unknown history of film-making - as in a head the idea of screen version came creators, what complications they ran into, as they created the special effects and on what hoped. Excellent gift to all admirers of film!