A vivid example of the “Ryazan” style of the period of its heyday, in all aspects qualitatively made film canvas, saturated with details characteristic of time. Colorful Shirvindt, Dogileva with Anastasia Voznesenskaya, Mordyukov and Kononov, for seconds of appearance in the frame shone Sadalsky. Another is the incorruptible image of a nugget businessman created by Mikhalkov, so we will remember him.
Along the way, the film illustrates the curious effect of the influence on civilians of a large number of places with brutal male collectives in very cramped living conditions with disciplined marching. Gurchenko, who got somewhere on Kolyma, saw the plagued look of an almost bullied intellectual with the quickly developed reflex of the instantaneous dexterous theft of compact food from someone else’s table, who forgot how he should treat a woman he loved recently, in the process of slow thawing in a warm food-filled room transformed into an oily look turned to her and immediately shy, only then again, as before, becoming like something human. He was lucky with the head of the colony: his eyes (in the last frames of the film) are kind, in the plot it is the cherry on the cake.