In his book *Long-term Consequences* (*Otdalennye posledstviya*), film critic Lev Karakhan seeks to make sense of the complex trajectory taken by both Russian and Western cinema since the Second World War.

At the heart of this study lies a comparison of the work of two directors from the "Sixties generation"—Andrei Konchalovsky and Andrei Smirnov—focusing specifically on their recent films, *Sin* (2019) and *A Frenchman* (2019). How has this life-affirming generation—which emerged during the "Thaw"—evolved over the course of more than half a century? How does it relate to the Western cinema of alienation? How did it navigate a crisis of vitality when the "Thaw" gave way to a deep freeze? And what does the legacy of the "Sixties generation" signify today? The author explores these questions, drawing a wide array of figures, phenomena, and events into his analysis.