Translation

Lilianna Lungina – a renowned master of literary translation. Thanks to her, Russian readers became familiar with "Malysh and Karlson" and "Pippi Longstocking" by Astrid Lindgren, the novels of Hamsun, Strindberg, Böll, Simenon, Vian, and Azhar. As a child, she lived in France, Palestine, and Germany, and in the early thirties, as a thirteen-year-old girl, she returned to her homeland, the USSR. The life of this remarkable woman profoundly expressed the twentieth century. In her captivating oral novel, the chronicle of a dramatic era and a confessional narrative about the life of the soul merged together. M. Tsvetaeva, V. Nekrasov, D. Samoilov, A. Tvardovsky, A. Solzhenitsyn, V. Shalamov, E. Yevtushenko, N. Khrushchev, A. Sinyavsky, I. Brodsky, A. Lindgren – these are just some of the most well-known figures in her narrative, distant and close companions of her life, which she agreed to recount before the camera in Oleg Dorman's documentary film.