Recently, both in our and in foreign film science, the interview genre begins to occupy the same full place as a review article, review or creative portrait. This book is the first in Soviet film science entirely composed of conversations with masters of foreign cinema. Their author, film critic S. M. Chertok, writes in different genres, but interviews or, more precisely, interview portraits are a characteristic part of his work. Some of these interviews were published in abridged form in the magazine "Soviet Screen & gt; and other periodicals, others are published here for the first time. The publishing house did not include interviews with filmmakers of socialist countries in this book, since it is planned to publish a special collection composed of conversations with masters of cinema of the USSR, Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania.