Production :
TV company Proeкt TV World sales Kultura TV Channel
(www.tvkultura.ru)
Plot synopsis
This is a partially animated documentary film about the
life of Yuri Olesha, a talented and for some time much
celebrated Soviet writer who is most notable for the
fairy tale «Three Fat Men». This film is not a lecture on
literary criticism, not is it the analysis of the creative
heritage of the writer. The narrative is not focused on
the misery of an alcohol dependant intellectual, as is so
often presented in archive images. Similarly it is not
interested in the various love affairs that he became
tangled up in. The film nurtures the diaries of Yuri
Olesha within a creative cinematic experience. This
amalgamation is an attempt to represent the inner
turmoil of a gifted person, who died in literature
30 years before his physical death.
