Reviews on series Vepr (2)

'The action takes place in parallel in 1921 and 1974. In the 20s of the last century, the Bolshevist church showed a strong interest in all kinds of occultism, in particular, in the mystical secrets of Tibetan Buddhism. Baron Ungern von Störnberg, who was nicknamed the Black Baron, was particularly distinguished.'

The abstract says everything wrong. It seems that those who wrote this text, the film itself did not even watch, and generally bad friends with logic.

First of all, Buddhism is a world religion, not some Occultism & #39. Secondly, interest in Buddhism was shown not ' the Bolshevik elite' but Baron Ungern von Sternberg, who could not be suspected of sympathies with Bolshevism, since he was a white general and actually fought against this very Bolshevism.

Nevertheless, I see such a sloppy annotation on absolutely all sites without exception, as if one fool wrote, and other fools went to copy his text on all the pages they could.
Now the truth. The film is based on real events. During the Civil War there was indeed Baron Ungern von Störnberg, commander of the Asiatic division of the White Army. He could not get along with the Bolsheviks. He will come out on them, he will be smashed, and he will hide in Mongolia. Gather his strength and fight again. He will be defeated again, and he will return to Mongolia.
And he adopted Buddhism to enlist the support of local monks. And they supported him. Then he defeated the Chinese, who for centuries slaughtered these Buddhists, and became the main one in the Far East. Only the Communists finally killed him. They trapped him and killed his entire army. This is how his fate ended.

In fact, the film could be called historical, if not for the parallel plot about a young graduate student, passing a dissertation, because of which this film can be perceived as two different films. Probably, the author thought that the dry retelling of the story to the modern viewer will look rather boring, so he added elements of a thriller to the film.
After all, we’ve seen a lot of American movies about different animals terrorizing the neighborhood, so why can’t there be a similar Russian movie? I'm here with both hands 'Z'

I expected a lot from this series. This description is cool, the plot is interesting, the mysticism that I love. In addition, the participation of famous actors. I thought I'd have fun.

Nothing like that. I've never seen more shit. One boar is great - that's yeah, great done!
The movie itself, I don’t even know where to start.

The plot is not new. More than once told stories about scientists who are ready to walk on corpses for the sake of their brilliant idea. So it's not bad or good, usually.
The performance is awful. It seems that the authors have finally reached the point of hating socialism and have devoted all their work to it with ecstasy. All Communists and Commissars are by default bastards, scoundrels and scoundrels. The NKVD is something exceedingly terrible and apparently criminal. One comparison. The grandmother tells the main character about how she shot all the horses of her horse farm, as long as they did not get to the red, how it is on her beautiful horses peasants will plow the land! Horrible! It's impossible to survive! And the hero did not even lead an eye, even sympathized with the old woman. And when he was informed that his only friend and defender here was once a long time ago, thirty years ago, he served in the NKVD (he fought the fascists, as it turned out later), the hero became ill. He wasn't himself all day, you see?
The village that is described is complete drunkards and parasites, with rare exceptions. What they're all drinking for is not clear. The ubiquitous KGB, however, wiretaps all residents. The situation in the village rather corresponds to a mental institution of a closed type - and the authors are apparently trying to tell us that this is a normal situation in the USSR at that time.
Dying of pulmonary sarcoma (at the last stage, according to him, he has less than a month left) runs around the village, manages everywhere, controls everyone and removes witnesses between cases. That's very plausible. He does not have to walk, nor does he have to live an active life. He has almost no lungs left, so he breathes with difficulty, which means that there should be no strength.

I regret spending 8 hours of my life doing this.
1 point and I will put for the actors. It is not their fault that the director told them to play such a crap!
1 out of 10