“For the first time, something I saw on TV became a fact of my own life,” one of the bloggers admits in his diary. He is supported by the second one: “I even wanted to extend the credits after the film … Some strange feeling of orphanhood … Probably, this amazing woman could be given a prize for the best female role, not for life. But of course she doesn’t need it.»
“For the first time, something I saw on TV became a fact of my own life,” one of the bloggers admits in his diary. He is supported by the second one: “I even wanted to extend the credits after the film … Some strange feeling of orphanhood … Probably, this amazing woman could be given a prize for the best female role, not for life. But of course she doesn’t need it.» And the third: “There is nothing lasting in the world, and it is worth investing only in a person, in your knowledge, energy, development, the ability to live here and now, to fill every moment with meaning and understanding. Like Lilianna Lungina. All this is about the documentary film by Oleg Dorman «Interlinear», which, with the authenticity of the person in the frame and the true content of what this person said, blew up our glamorous propaganda television air in July.
Four evenings in a row, for a total of eight hours, on the air of the Rossiya channel, an elderly woman talked about her life. Rather, she told her life. The life of a man who was taken hostage by the predatory era, but did not catch the «Stockholm syndrome». And now it does not justify or blame the past of the country. No, in the film «Interlinear» Lilianna Lungina, translator of «Carlson» and Belle, a European intellectual and a Soviet intellectual, melts down a big story in the crucible of private life. And pours the historical chronicle into modest bowls of personal memories of each of us.
Our marriage was happy and frivolous, light, cheerful, weightless. He was joyful at every moment. There were no weekdays. Despite the fact that there were the most severe weekdays and there was not a penny, there were still no weekdays. Sima knew how to love life, turn it into something unprecedented. And we lived forty-nine years of such a life, and every year the feeling of a miracle that fell on us, not only did not decrease, but, on the contrary, increased. And I have never met such a marriage with anyone — so that it was not only deep and serious, but joyful and cheerful at every given moment. […] There was a game. And so the game, superimposed on our cruel, merciless life, created … a feeling of exceptional fullness. I have a feeling from my life that there was no empty millimeter. Everything was filled with feelings, thoughts, deeds of some kind.
And it is not at all strange that the great cinematographer Vadim Yusov (the cameraman of Solaris and Andrei Rublev) considered it his duty and honor to shoot this seemingly static object, an old woman, for many hours. It was just that the instinct of a newsreel woke up in him — he felt that her oral memoirs, her experiences, her acquaintances, her fears and her delights, her ability to hilariously subtly notice details, her very manner of speaking with a burr are worthy of this monument in «figure».
And in September, the Corpus publishing house publishes a book by Lilianna Lungina, based on the materials of the film Interlinear. It also included those fragments that did not fit into 16 episodes, so that many stories that were only outlined on the screen will be developed on paper. And those who, like our blogger, would like to extend communication with Lilianna Lungina will have such an opportunity. For those who haven’t seen the movie, get to know her. Which in itself is luck.