This three-volume edition is a memoir of the outstanding Ukrainian film director Yuriy Ilyenko, in which the author quite frankly describes his own life. Memories of childhood, filming, creative contacts, difficult relationships with others (friends, enemies, comrades, women, etc.). Interesting autobiographical facts - a duel and reconciliation with S. Parajanov on the set of "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", desperate irresistible love for L. Kadochnikova, friendship with I. Mykolaychuk, G. Shpalikov, O. Ioseliani, A. Tarkovsky, P. Finn, B. Akhmadulina, S. Knyazhynsky, K. K. Yershov, G. Rerberg and many others, meetings with O. Dovzhenko, S. Bondarchuk, P. Chukhray, V. Kalyuta, Alisova, M. Donsky, S. Rastropovich - people , who created the era, makes this book a document of the era itself. In addition to the above, the book is full of creative ideas, fragments of staged and undirected scripts, illustrated with storyboards to films and drawings by the author himself, Yu. Ilyenko. The three-volume script of the film "Mazepa" concludes. The three-volume book also contains a block of photographs from the archive of Yu. Ilyenko and his paintings. The book will be interesting for those who love and make movies. Buy a set of books at a 20% discount!