On October 27, in the Kachalov Theater as part of the Kachalovsky Theater Festival off-program, the premiere of the documentary film “That road” produced by the Lithuanian studio “Studija JU” was held. The film was represented by director Natalia Yu and producer Vladimir Golikov. The film was created with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and is timed to the 70th anniversary of the death of actor Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov. This is an attempt to talk about the life of the famous actor in the twilight of his days. The first spectators of this film were not only Kachalov theatre actors, but also teachers and students of theatrical educational institutions, representatives of the museum community of Kazan and amateurs of theatrical art. The film was warmly received by the audience, and a continuation of the conversation about the great Russian actor, named after the Kazan Russian Theater and Festival, was a meeting with a theater critic, a candidate of art history, Honored Artist of Russia, Rector of the Higher Theater School named after Shchepkin, head of the history of Russian theater RATI-GITIS Boris LYUBIMOV and great-great-grandson of Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov Nikita Baranov. Boris Nikolayevich continued the theme started by the film, describing the fate of one of the brightest actors of the Moscow Art Theater, his aspirations and searches. This meeting at the Kachalovsky festival was an important and necessary conversation about the origins of Russian psychological theater, the need to know and remember the traditions laid down by the great by craftsmen.