In the center of the story is the image of a thin-legged fascist in a neat fascist form, a clean-cut woman with a characteristic-fascist hair knot, a connoisseur of the native Pushkin, suddenly caught our eyes, native and Russian, although without education, but always ready - and she, of course, in the end is also very much not averse to him, for no matter what is, but still a woman ... Being an ideological pacifist, the main character thus shut up one of the embrasures personally, bringing the corresponding unit out of the cohesive fascist system.
Some pioneer camp relaxation throughout the film, both fascists and partisans cause, perhaps, bewilderment.
The peak of the tragedy is marked by the song of a powerful collective suicide gypsy song. In the picturesque, not to take away, battle episodes, the tried-and-true method of slow-motion shooting is not forgotten, in scenes with accurate hits in the characters, especially spectacular. The legendary F. Bondarchuk participated in recognizable frowning.
The tendency, apparently, of the director to vaudeville intonations appears even with such a plot. By the end, the film acquires the characteristic features of a long-tight melodrama. Over all this hovers long poetic recitations. The impression of an indigestible mixture of jam and herring.