The Hidden Person. Film Premiere and Public Talk with Director Roma Liberov.

On June 20th, director Roma Liberov will present the documentary film "The Innermost" in memory of the writer Andrey Platonov at the Sõprus cinema. In Tallinn, "The Innermost" will be shown on the big screen for the first time. After the screening, the audience will have the opportunity to discuss the film with the author.

"The Innermost" is not a meticulous biopic about the author of "The Foundation Pit" and "Chevengur." Like other works by Liberov, the film is made in a mixed technique: dramatic episodes alternate with animation, Soviet songs are accompanied by tracks from "Grazhdanskaya Oborona" and Shortparis, and facts from the writer's biography are mixed with fantasies based on his works.

When Roma talks about the fates of poets and writers of the 20th century, he uses a special figurative film language that is not always easy to understand. That is why the "Let's Talk?" project team finds it important not only to show "The Innermost" but also to arrange a meeting with the director. He will be able to answer the audience's questions and explain why he creates documentary projects in this particular way.

The event consists of three parts: a welcome speech, the film screening, and a conversation with Roma.

Roma Liberov, from an interview with the "Kino-Teatr.Ru" project: "There was no language for these [historical] events. Platonov had to somehow reimagine and invent this language. When we were working, our task was the film language, which is like a language with its own sentences, paragraphs, subjects, and predicates. That's what worried me the most: to be somewhat meaningful in the language of Andrey Platonov."

Film Synopsis:

On October 25th, 1917, the construction of a new world began in Russia. One of its advanced workers was the writer Andrey Platonov. But the bright and just future, his art, and literature were seen differently by everyone. The "own" truth became impossible, and the new world was built not as it was envisioned. Demanding millions of lives for its existence, the "bright future" took the life of the writer's fifteen-year-old arrested son, and later Andrey Platonov himself. The story of the creation and demise of the new world unfolds in seven days.

Roma Liberov is a director, producer, and screenwriter. He has created a series of documentary films about Russian writers and poets of the 20th century, including Joseph Brodsky, Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, Sergey Dovlatov, Osip Mandelstam, and Yuri Olesha.

He is the author and producer of the music-literary projects "Preserve My Speech Forever" (2021) and "After Russia" (2023). The first one is dedicated to Osip Mandelstam, and the second one focuses on the poets of the first wave of Russian emigration.