Impressive are the life paths of characters exemplary in the then understanding of Soviet citizens: permanent heroism on the Great Buildings, and in the intervals between - always readiness for self-sacrifice on what will happen to the war, including and completely far from their native shores. The women are there, just like the War Friends. The rest of the world, which did not understand such an alternative normality, was probably somewhat uncomfortable from such a massive indomitable drive.
A sense of collectivism, no petty-bourgeois hoarding and preoccupation with discounts at sales - all the more so by issuing something out of the volatility of the stock market. Uninfected by cults and unhappiness of consumer infrastructure.
Under Good-natured Brezhnev, the population, having begun to grow up in life up to the summer cottage six acres and personally-family “Zaporozhets”, to the prospect of life in the state of the Deed required by the country cooled, the film became not in the theme at all, but the enthusiasm of Komsomol volunteers, supported by an ever longer ruble, for students took the form of construction teams.
The film is distinguished by the poetics brought by a concerned director. Complementing this, the smells of those years left behind are listed in the prologue to Timur Kibirov’s poem “Through Farewell Tears”.
