How did the hero's relationship with the screen space of great history change from "Battleship Potemkin" and "Mother" to "Khrustalyov, My Machine!" and "Soulless"? What tools did Soviet classics use to create the image of the "historical man"? What was the basic plot of Stalin-era cinema? What meanings were conveyed in scenes of encounters between film heroes and the on-screen doubles of Soviet leaders? And at what point did the triumph of being-in-history turn to tragedy and trauma? All this and more will be discussed in the lecture.