Another Todorovsky film on the “post-war” theme. These are the years of his youth; even after 40-50 years, the impressions were bright, and required artistic reflection - already with the awareness of the horror of that time. Todorovsky, as always, managed to convey the features of the era: in the dormitory named after the monk Berthold Schwartz, someone has to sleep on the piano (probably attached to his place, being a heavy subject, since the days of the tsarist regime). Heroes are cheerful and brainless, as befits junior students.
At the end of the film, the development of events is rapid: the politically incorrect jokes of several bonkers fall into the field of view of the invisible punitive Power, and the process of solving the problem (without a stage, considered unnecessary, explaining the impermissibility of such jokes to the scoundrels) looks like the current weeding of a small section of one of the beds - their lives are cut off at once; judging by the film, the silent court is combined with the enforcement of the supreme measure where it happened. An ordinary tragedy of the heyday of Stalinism.