The film is tough, but everything is in the theme, and the meaning in it is laid, I think, much deeper than just to show the life of a typical Russian woman not the highest mind from the outback, which, as we wrote above, all the time was only being beaten or raped.
There's more to look at. Here is a whole section from that time at the turning point of history, the revolution, dekulakization, the “noble” gentlemen of the Bolsheviks. Everything is shown in all its glory. It is shocking that everything that we were fed in history lessons, that was hammered into the heads of “dear comrades of compatriots” for more than 70 years, all this publicized “bright future” is pure fiction. What actually happened was not so noble.
And against this background, a simple woman no longer looks so gloomy, stupid and pointless. Quite the opposite.
Logically completed the film ending with an excerpt from the chronicle of Kitezhgrad ... Indeed, Russia was covered in darkness with the arrival of Lenin’s grandfather.
This film would be worth watching for the general development and debunking of some myths hammered into the head since childhood.
I will hardly review it, it is heavy, but the impression, I am sure, does not put me for a long time.
9 out of 10 Original