"This film is not about who is right or wrong, but about particular episodes in our history: the producer Georgy Lordkipanidze about the film Impostors"

The director Maria Reizen, the producer Georgy Lordkipanidze, the cinematogrpager Mikhail Agranovich and the actor Aleksander Adabashyan presented the film Impostors participating in the Russian Premiere Competition of the 47th Moscow International Film Festival.

In autumn 1993, trying to understand the circumstances of the death of a famous filmmaker and save his unfinished film Boris Godunov, the characters in love fail to notice how they turn out to be in the center of historic events, which will change their lives forever.

Maria Reizen: "In 1993, I was a little girl and I remember how scared I was when something rumbled behind the windows and they would not let me come close. Only after many years when I was working on a film I realized with horror what really was happening there and I hope we could develop this subject not only for ourselves but also for spectators. The parallel with the play Boris Godunov was obvious: Pushkin believed people were in charge and a similar situation took place in 1993".

Georgy Lordkipanidze: «In 1993, I was a 15-year old schoolboy and I was not afraid of anything – there were no more child fears and adult ones have not appeared yet. I spent those days with the actor Egor Beroev who also played a part in our film: we were in one class and Egor's granddad was one of the leaders of April, an association of writers, and he engaged us to campaign for Yeltsin. Some years later Egor's position changed to a completely opposite one and mine has not changed: I regret nothing. I think that the film text written by Sergey Shumakov shows that position means nothing in general. And it seems to me that Maria did an incredible job to make a film not about who is right or wrong, but about particular episodes in our history. Although the film's idea started right from the play Boris Godunov when I and Sergey started to discuss how we can tell about the events described by Pushkin today and, finally, found a parallel with the events of 1993, which took place not long ago, but at which we could look from a distance".

Mikhail Agranovich: "Boris Godunov rhymes the troubled times with what happened in Moscow in 1993. I was taking sides back then, but for me Impostors began the first film, which clearly states that it is just a nightmare and that everyone is to blame, with no right or wrong sides, but we want to defend both. And this is so fair".

Aleksander Adabashyan: "I learned about the events of 1993 when I was in the countryside and I remember the way to Moscow when everywhere life was absolutely calm, everything worked, people were also calm, but when we entered Moscow, we found ourselves amid rapid developments, which, overall, took place in a small area not far from my house. Today, this remote feeling I had on the way is coming back and I realize that these were local events scaled to the whole country, which did not influence people living beyond that small area. People kept silence like in Pushkin's play.