“A Long Goodbye” is… It’s the past that is always close to some part of people. When you constantly feel its presence in your life. When the knots tied in the past, somehow link up with today— with today’s problems, with today’s people. It’s the inability to let go of that baggage you have…… It’s just that it’s a very piercing writer for me. I’ve read Trifonov a lot, but for some reason it was this story, “A Long Goodbye,” that made on me a completely special impression—twenty years before I started working on the film.” Sergey Ursulyak.