SUBS is not a faithful adaptation of Jack Kerouac's 'The Subterraneans'. It would have been impossible to make such a film with conditions as they are in Russia today. (There is, in any case, a screen version produced by the MGM studios in 1960, starring Leslie Caron, directed by Ranald MacDougall) . My film is an attempt to reconsider Kerouac and the ideas and lifestyle of the...