About the book: 2018 / The book “Time to break the ice” was born from conversations between actress Chulpan Khamatova and journalist, documentary filmmaker Katerina Gordeeva. Katya asks, Chulpan answers. Sometimes it’s the other way around. What was television like in the nineties, when did it end and why; what the theater was like at the beginning of the 2000s and why ten years later it became dangerous. But, most importantly, how did it happen that friends – Chulpan and Katya – came to the “Gift of Life” foundation by completely different paths? And why do they consider this particular case the most important today, something similar to breaking ice in a constantly freezing country? “This book is a novel of education, and a journalistic investigation, and a diary of events, and a dialogue on the verge of confession” (Lyudmila Ulitskaya). The book contains obscene language