The bottom without enlightenment

Mikhail Efremov was given 8 years in a general regime colony

The difficult in life of Mikhail Efremov, who continued from August 5 to September 7, was completed. He in advance (until the end of reading the sentence was left for another twenty minutes, and the convoy had not yet entered the hall) laid his hands behind his back.

... We all, gathered for the verdict, hear how to scrap the nails, scratches the table Sonya, the wife of Efremov. Small children, illnesses, charity, positive characteristics of friends ... Judge Abramova made a decision. Eight years of a general regime colony. The period that experienced lawyers called long until September 7th.

-Efremov is not a vi-vat! Efremov is not a vi-vat! - Scandilize in the crowd near the porch of the Presnensky court, when the lawyer Elman Pashayev slightly confused his confidence appears. To blame.

“The court considered proven”: the verdict of the certificate of eyewitnesses, the conclusion of the expert commission ( technical condition of the car, the physiological state of a person at the wheel ), and recordings from numerous video cameras were accepted and based. For more than five minutes and several pages of the sentence, it goes to transfer all the injuries incompatible with the life of injuries received by the victim of the clash, the driver Sergei Zakharov.

But the main question of this process is not at all "who is to blame?" And they will not even “wave” a popularly beloved artist or will be judged by all the severity of the law?

The main thing is why Mikhail Olegovich Efremov suddenly behaved like that. Inconsistently, ugly.

Why, after the recognition, recorded on the film and impeccable in every syllable, took him back, went into a deaf unconscious. Why did he repeat “I don’t remember anything” for many days? Who was able to convince him that it was not the role of the repentant sinner, the only accurate in this situation and in our country, but the role of an alcoholic, suddenly caught by amnesia, promises the condescension of the court and people? After all, he knew all the gift, all genetics, when art ends and fate begins, he always felt when he needed “complete death seriously” to replace Turus and wheels.

Well, everyone knows - this tactic is proposed by protection, lawyer Pashayev insisted on such a figure of behavior. But why did the talented artist go about the most mediocre directing, which happened in his biography? And then on the day of the debate, even before the meeting, he prompted him to get up and say: “I admit my guilt”? The only assumption: because I chose - to live.

The way our judicial system works and breathes has long convinced everyone: not in the courtroom, but behind the scenes of the processes the fate of the accused is decided. Here the scenes are obvious. Efremov was to blame for the authorities, Efremov became addicted and vulnerable, Efremov can be suppressed.

You will behave correctly - to pull it out, it is easy to assume, they said to Efremov. But what does it mean in this situation to "behave correctly"? Not only the drama of a person who will be difficult to survive physically in a colony of general regime, but the drama of the surname, who has both roots and shoots, painfully responds today.

The process of Efremov was not another “loud business”. He is in some way a new format. Because, as the people say, he showed the “bottom”.

On the bottom, all the births frolic with their frantic leading, Internet communities, obscene defense characters on both sides, witnesses and relatives of the deceased who entered the status of TV stars. Lawyers Pashayev with a reputation of Resulta and Dobrovinsky with a constant butterfly on the neck. Even for overflows of context - greedy spectators, squeezing into the hall, black magicians, experts on “management from space”, world committees to combat evil.

Dark-dark foam. The trial of Mikhail Efremov became the attraction of monstrous instruction, deployed in the country, where they once a long time ago remembered compassion, knew about worldwide responsiveness, read "... I'm your brother."

“Now there will be a video where they start in a cage!”, “What did he use, who knows the whole list?”, “They won’t pay money to anyone, only 800 thousand gave” his son ”

- Such remarks flutter on the stairs and in the corridor in the final mise -en -scene of events, when Mikhail Efremov, taken into custody in the courtroom, is taken to the public.

- Why are you playing this nonsense? - I once allowed myself the inappropriate directness after one of the next prime minister of “Contemporary” with Efremov in the title role. - You can choose anything.

- And what should I play?

- Maybe the Lira is already time?

And so, like Lear, he suddenly deaf to good, like Lear, became struck by unconsciousness and listens to the multiple combined injuries of Zakharov with a low -down head. Only this story is not a tragedy in its pure form, but by Tresh, domestic mud, the insignificance of small manifestations The history of the human catastrophe. Anti-Lyr. And there will be no final enlightenment.

After the sentence
The premiere of the short film "Process" with Mikhail Efremov - September 9 on the website "New"