Terry Gilliam is an uncompromising iconoclast of modern cinema, with each of his films destroying myths about the dos and don'ts of mass cinema. The definition given by Stanislav Lem to Philip Dick fully applies to him: "a visionary among charlatans" (and it is no coincidence that Gilliam's many unrealized projects include film adaptations of Dick's works). His animated inserts gave unique integrity to the famous television series of the comic group "Monty Python," he played his best roles Johnny Depp ("Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"), Brad Pitt with Bruce Willis ("Twelve Monkeys") and Jeff Bridges ("King Fisherman," "Land of the Tides" "), and his blockbusters" Brazil "and" The Adventures of Baron Munchausen "became famous for the epic scope of not only staged effects, but also subsequent battles with the studio authorities.