Today, this serious military film evokes extremely contradictory feelings.
The selection of some actors at the time probably did not seem strange. Dobronravov’s role is not very disposed to take his character seriously, probably in 2005 it was not a big problem. But if the main matchmaker of the country in the screen appears only in one scene at the beginning of the film, then the main character, the captain-sapper, performed by Vdovichenkov, cannot get rid of the gangster halo.
The main two problems are the actors and the details. The original script was written in 1981, which suggests that if the film had been made then, it would have turned out very differently.
Unfortunately, added during filming details lead to the fact that the film is layered. From under the sometimes quite inconclusive game, anachronisms and bullishness, the ghost of a film looks very similar to the Mirror for the hero. It could have been a masterpiece about the redemption and revival of the victorious people in the country, if not for this oil raid in the form of careless color correction, television plans, historical blunders, strange words and sometimes fuzzy speech. We have not yet learned how to do well in 2005.
The movie was good, for once. But it is a pity that the enormous potential of this topic has not been revealed.