Impossible The film is an adaptation of the #39; correct & #39; and therefore the most boring book of Nosov, from which I have the feeling that it was written exclusively for the Stalin Prize, and not for readers. In the film, this lengthy moralist underwent significant reductions, but they did not go to the benefit, since the last remnants of life went under the knife. In principle, such children's literature was characteristic of that time, but other authors, as a rule, put in the center of such moral works for children it is moral, universal values. But Nosov apparently decided to bow down to the Stalinist regime, and wrote a book in which essential things such as willpower and character are seriously measured by estimates. Most likely, he wrote the script for the film, deciding even more to win the sympathy of the authorities, since once it was possible to earn good money, and even those moral qualities that in the book at least nominally stood for school performance, generally went by the wayside: in the film they turned into a means of obtaining good grades.
The picture smells of monstrous falsehood and hypocrisy. Having interests that are not related to learning is perfectly normal. But children who fall out of the assembly line for the production of socialist people become outcasts in a frightened community. This film is interesting not in itself, but as a mirror of the era. Although it came out a year after Stalin’s death, it bears a deep stamp of stereotypes that were forcibly hammered into children’s heads to educate the right builders of communism. And it would be normal if I saw in the film an attempt to ridicule the dependence of self-esteem on academic performance in school - but no, it seems to be all serious.
Fortunately, such work in the creative tandem Nosov - Esymont only one. Most likely, the frank conjuncture of this picture just gave the green light to the continuation of their joint work, and to make such an ideologically correct film was necessary in order to continue making films about people and for people, and not about zombies for party officials. If this is so, then without this monstrous film, neither the completely normal 'Dude' nor the excellent 'The Adventures of Toli Klukvin' would be possible. In this sense, the sacrifice may be said to have been justified, and the authors laundered their once-sold conscience with subsequent creative successes. Judging by the subsequent works, they themselves did not believe in what this film promotes.
2 out of 10