About the book: 2008 / Less than six months had passed since Schmidt’s wife died, and then their only daughter came to say that she was getting married. And the orderly life of an elderly successful lawyer goes downhill: he is forced to retire early; he does not approve of Charlotte’s choice, but even to himself he is unable to admit why; he is being pursued by an ominous tramp who looks suspiciously like himself... Prosperous old age is not always cloudless, but unexpected passion in one's declining years can give a tiny ray of hope. Based on this book by the American writer Louis Begley (b. 1933), director Alexander Payne filmed in 2002 film of the same name starring Jack Nicholson and Kathy Bates. Melancholy odyssey “About Schmidt” - for the first time in Russian.