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«Bazhov. Borrowed Time» is the first feature film based not on the tales, but on the fate of Pavel Petrovich himself. The authors took into account a tragic but significant year in the writer’s life. 1937. Due to ideological differences with the authorities, journalist Bazhov was suspended from everything — from work, the party, and social life. However, the forced self-isolation ended with the birth of the «Malachite Casket». How could this happen? What allowed a not-so-young writer not to perish, but to truly be reborn in his work?..