Against the background of typical Soviet film production of that time, this film looks very modern - and color film, and animated frames-inserts, and an avant-garde mixture of sacred-military theme with a mood-creating song about the drops of the Danish king, which should be drunk by the cavaliers. It seems that the film was shot at least 20 years later, but the year of its creation is the swampy Soviet 1967. I can't believe it. With all this in the film can not find anything unreliable - just a look at everything usually-military is very bright, and this is probably his secret.
Is it possible to make a tragicomedy about the Holy Great Patriotic War without distorting history and insulting anyone’s memory? Turns out you can. A unique case: pathos and ideological pumping in this Soviet film about the war, there was no place. Despite this, the film met (albeit with difficulty) with the viewer - the talent of the director and the quality of the acting work won. It seems to be a Soviet film, the only one of its kind.