Iurii Olesha (1899-1960) was a relative late-comer to film work, if compared to several other important fictional prose writers oft he Soviet , experimental' (modernist) 1920s. Olesha's first major filmscript (and his first script to be filmed) was „Strogii iunosha (A Strict Youth“), written in Odessa in 29 days in May und June 1934.
