"House of Cinema" invites everyone interested to participate in the program by Mikhail Trofimenkov and Marina Kronidova, dedicated to the phenomenon of the Soviet western. The audience can expect a discussion of the cultural phenomenon and a screening of the film "Hot Trails." The program "Wild East - A Delicate Matter" addresses a special direction in Soviet cinema, where the civil war becomes the arena of an eternal struggle between chaos and order, good and evil, and the heroes, like the cowboys of the West, assert a new law. This genre, which received the name "isterne" in the 1970s, absorbed the techniques and rhythm of the classic western but replaced the American prairies with the steppes and deserts of Central Asia, and cowboys with commissars, scouts, and basmachi. The films of Ali Khamraev ("The Seventh Bullet"), Nikita Mikhalkov ("His Own Among Strangers, A Stranger Among His Own"), Vladimir Motyl ("White Sun of the Desert"), and Edmond Keosayan ("The Elusive Avengers") created a pantheon of domestic heroes acting in a world where the boundary between justice and violence is tenuous, and the concept of duty is always tied to personal responsibility. Mikhail Trofimenkov and Marina Kronidova view these films as a mirror of the era, reflecting the ideals, fears, and mythology of Soviet society. Through the visual and narrative codes of the western, familiar to the whole world, Soviet directors told stories about their time. At the center of the program is the screening of the film "Hot Trails." This is a rare example of a military adventure film, where elements of a spy thriller combine with the pathos of heroism. The action unfolds in the Karakum Desert, where a Soviet expedition encounters German saboteurs disguised as Red Army soldiers. The confrontation in the desert turns into a struggle for survival and moral superiority, so characteristic of the aesthetics of the "isterne." To attend the meeting, prior registration on the cinema center's website is required.