Christopher Hampton already at the age of eighteen earned a reputation as a young genius, writing a play that became a hit of the London West End. On his account a large number of his own plays, as well as translations and adaptations of such classical masterpieces as "Uncle Vanya" Chekhov, "Gedda Gabler" Ibsen and "Don Juan" Moliere . His play “Dangerous Liaisons” based on the novel by Choderlo de Laclos was played in the West End more than two thousand times, and for the adaptation of “Dangerous Liaisons” in the production of Stephen Frees, he received an Oscar in the nomination “Best Adapted Screenplay”. In the same category, he was nominated for an Oscar for the script of “Redemption” based on the novel by Ian McEwan. Hampton is also known as a filmmaker - his production of Dreaming of Argentina was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and Carrington received a special jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival .. This book presents two Hampton plays that received equally high-profile film incarnations. "The Treatment of the Word" on the Birth of Psychoanalysis , David Cronenberg directed the 2011 film The Dangerous Method (played by Viggo Mortsnsen) Carl Gustav Jung as Morton Fassbender , Sabine Spielrain as Keira Knightley , Otto Grossa as Vincent Cassel , and "A Total Eclipse" about the scandalous history of the relationship between two prominent French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud (the 1995 film of the same name by Agnieszka Holland , as Rambo starred Leonardo DiCaprio). For the first time in Russian.