Woody Allen is the founding father of the genre of intellectual comedy and one of the most iconic characters of modern cinema. Director of such recognized film hits , How to , What You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (CM) They were afraid to ask.” "Love and Death" (CM) "Annie Hall" , "Manhattan" , "The Purple Rose of Cairo" , "The Bullets Over Broadway" (CM) "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion" (CM) "Match Point" , "Sensation" , "The Dream of Cassandra" and many others (to date - more than thirty films). From the very beginning of his directing career, he preferred to star himself - and created for himself in the cinema an easily recognizable image of a smart, neurotic New Yorker and an ever-reflecting intellectual in urgent need of a psychoanalyst. Allen is the recipient of such honorary awards on the basis of merit, as the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival ("For Contribution to Film Art") and the Palm Branch of the Cannes Film Festival (before him, only Ingmar Bergman was awarded this award) , the Prince of Asturias Award , which is called the "Spanish Nobel Prize" , in Oviedo , Capital of Asturias , Allen was even given a monument . [ In this book, representing all stages of Allen's career, from performances in the cabaret of the 60s with comic numbers to coming out in September 2008...... The film “Vicky, Christina, Barcelona” with Scarlett Johanson, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem in the lead roles, collected his conversations with a prominent Swedish filmmaker and film critic Stig Bjrkman, already known to the Russian reader from the book of interviews with Laos von Trier ..