Why did Arkady Dobrovolsky and Lina Kostenko, the talented authors of the critically-acclaimed screenplay Check Your Watches, take their names out from the credits of Leonid Osyka’s film Who Return, Will Love to the End based on their screenplay? Using archival materials analysis, this article shows collisions that revolved around Kostenko’s notorious work between 1964–1966 at the Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv.