Image of the enemy of the period of «cold war» in detective and adventure films 1950-1980s: the spectator's audience and the problem of historical memory

Some statistical data and letters with responses of the Soviet spectators are analyzed in this article. These materials prove presence of a wide spectator audience at detective films 1950-1980s. Some generations of the people who born and have grown during «cold war», are brought up on products of soviet art cinema in which elements of an image of the enemy were present in full and, certainly, have affected a position of these people in relation to the «hostile» nation in the further.

«cold war», detective and adventure films, image of the enemy, historical memory