“If you choose between beauty and truth, I choose beauty. All my life, I have dreamed of creating something great and joyful for people and have not done it. I am the stepson of power”. This conclusion was made by Alexander Dovzhenko at the end of his work. The life of a prominent director has tragically ended. He infinitely loved his people, his land, and was destined to live, work and die in Moscow, without the right to return to Ukraine.