Famous and recognizable. Critically acclaimed and loved by the audience. They embodied on the screen the main characters of the Russian 2000s. They were able to capture the essence of the present and to express it in real cinema.

This book is not a brief history of cinematic contemporaneity, but a subjective reportage of events and faces. A gallery of the country's best actors, seen here and now.

The book "Actors of the Present. The First Series" includes interviews and portraits (photographed by Nikita Pavlov): Polina Agureeva, Sergei Bezrukov, Sergei Garmash, Marina Golub, Mikhail Evlanov, Mikhail Efremov, Vitaly Kishchenko, Danila Kozlovsky, Klavdia Korshunova, Gosha Kutsenko, Anna Mikhalkova, Inga Oboldina, Irina Rakhmanova, Artur Smolyaninov, Maxim Sukhanov, Evgeny Sytogo, Oksana Fandera, Evgeny Tsyganov, Alexei Chadov, Maria Shalaeva.

Compilers Lubov Arkus and Konstantin Shavlovsky