CINEMA OF NATIONAL INTEREST
The article is a review of the book by Lyudmila Fedorova “Adaptation as a symptom. Russian Classics on the Post-Soviet Screen” (2021), dedicated to post-Soviet adaptations of the classical Russian literature of the 19th century. Using the concept of the collective trauma of which this persistent return to canonical texts is a symptom, Fedorova analyzes in detail the numerous films and series based on the works of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov, trying to assemble the systematic puzzle.