Stories for Cinema

Arkadiy Inin – a Soviet and Russian writer, playwright, screenwriter, publicist. Author of more than two hundred television and radio broadcasts of KVN, "Blue Light", "Cabaret 13 Chairs", "Good Morning!" and others, newspaper articles and magazine feuilletons. One of the... creators of the programs "Around Laughter" and "From the Bottom of My Heart!". Fifty films and series have been made based on the scripts of Arkadiy Inin, many of which have become classics of cinema. The most famous cinema novels and screenplays have been included in this book: "Loners are Provided with Dormitory", "Once Twenty Years Later", "Utyosov. A Song with a Length of Life", "Mayakovsky. Two Days" and others. "Once in Soviet cinemas, before the start of the film, a newsreel was shown. News of the country, reports from the fields, labor and creative achievements. Soviet cinemas no longer exist. But I myself am from a Soviet childhood. So traditionally, I precede the screening of my films with a newsreel. More precisely, these are not yet films. These are – scripts. But without scripts, there would be no films. When I am gathering a class of screenwriters at VGIK, I tell students this tale on the first lesson. A film archive, two mice are gnawing at a film reel. And one mouse says to the other: "But the script was tastier!" Fifty films have been made based on my scripts. But I only present nine to your judgment. And all of them are about love." Arkadiy Inin