We invite you to a screening of two documentary interview films featuring two outstanding contemporary figures: Alexander Asmolov and Tatyana Wiesel, both distinguished scholars holding doctoral degrees in psychology.

Each film is a monologue in which the protagonist, a legendary psychologist, shares their life story with the audience in an intimate, personal setting. Through a photo album, viewers follow the protagonist’s journey through life, travelling together through different eras and memories.
Over the course of several decades, both witnessed the profound changes their country underwent and encountered people from vastly different worlds — from poets of the Silver Age to KGB officers. At times, the shifts between historical eras were so radical that they felt like emigrants in their own country.
Despite these upheavals, both managed to find their place in a changing world, adapt to new circumstances, become leading figures in Russian psychological science, and remain true to their humanity.

Meet the protagonists

Alexander Grigoryevich Asmolov
Doctor of Psychology, professor, academician of the Russian Academy of Education (RAE), Head of the Department of Personality Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Director of the School of Anthropology of the Future at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Editor-in-Chief of the journal Educational Policy, and Academic Director of the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Who should you become when every path in the world lies open before you? The distinguished scholar, Doctor of Psychology and academician Alexander Asmolov has spent his entire life searching for an answer to this question.
In this cinematic monologue, the Head of the Department of Personality Psychology at MSU and Academic Director of the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis invites viewers on a journey through his photo album, which comes alive before their eyes. Old photographs transform into a vivid video chronicle of different historical eras.

Are you ready to explore the depths of the human soul alongside a legend of Russian science?

Tatyana Grigoryevna Wiesel
Doctor of Psychology, neuropsychologist, and professor at the Department of Special Education at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis.
How can life’s hardships become the foundation for worldwide scientific recognition? Tatyana Wiesel, professor at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis and Doctor of Psychology, endured the horrors of war and faced closed doors at educational institutions. Yet, against all odds, she became one of the country’s leading neuropsychologists.

In this film, the renowned professor shares her memories of childhood in the post-war years and recounts how she came closer to uncovering the mysteries of the human brain.

But was this remarkable career simply a matter of chance, or was there something more behind it?