The Problem of Reliability in a Feature Film on a Historical Theme (for example, the movie 'Catherine' – TV channel 'Russia 1', 2014)

Growing interest in history actualizes a number of issues as philosophical and methodological and artistic and aesthetic character, in particular, the question of how the filmmakers the right to transform the historical reality, and how to find the point at which the artistic transformation becomes distortion of history . This article focuses on the fact that it is the essence of the art methods that able to create a vivid image of a man in history – human "flesh and blood" and with the complexity of the soul and spiritual life. Guarantee a certain subjectivity is the methodology of the "history of long durations" school "Annals". Finally, high-quality artistic and historical film is a film with "open ending" – a film for causing the viewer to self-reflect on history.