About the book: 2018 / The book contains scripts by prose writer and playwright Valery Zalotukha, winner of the Big Book Award for the novel "Candle" and the Nika Award for the script of the film "Muslim". “After the War, Peace” is the author’s first script, written by him at the age of twenty-two, even before entering the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors. Films based on the scripts “The Gardener” and “The Road” had a successful cinematic career. The scripts “The Last Times” and “The Secret Life of Anna Sapphirova” were not staged. “The Secret Life of Anna Sapphirova” is the only melodrama in the author’s creative biography, and it was written for Lyudmila Gurchenko and Vladimir Ilyin.