Blue Folder

(2023)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2023

Runtime: 50 мин

Country: Germany, Russia

Director: Роман Штыль-Битыньш

Cast: Анатолий Белый, Александр Филиппенко, Лика Кремер, Роман Штыль-Битыньш

Plot

The documentary is dedicated to the Strugatsky brothers, iconic Soviet writers who are still incredibly popular and relevant in Russia. There were queues for Strugatsky's books in the USSR, magazines with their stories were resold on the black market. The brothers were not dissidents: they began their writing career as convinced communists; the world of the future they described is the world of a communist utopia. It is all the more surprising that their entire creative biography is a fierce struggle against censorship. Which they lost.