For the first time, they started talking about author's cinema in connection with the art of the 20s, born in technically still backward Soviet Russia. Suffice it to name the names of S. Eisenstein, V. Pudovkin, A. Dovzhenko. Their cinema went down in history as "directorial." Composing frames, creating an editing phrase, scene, episode and the whole film, the director asserted his understanding, attitude to what he saw *, his perception of the surrounding * *. The personality of the director was maximally expressed at all stages of the creation of the film * * *, and especially in its editing.