Save Vanya Vanya’s young talent must be preserved for the cause of the revolution and sent to Moscow. For reliability, he is given an accompanying, experienced soldier.
The Civil War... Brother goes to brother, confused people who do not know which side to join, hunger, cold, devastation. When they get saved, someone sacrifices their honor to save their family. All these tragedies pass before the eyes of the viewer on the path of the heroes to the final goal.
The talented hand of the director is felt – the actors play great, the direction is dynamic, although the plot has enough flaws and inaccuracies.
Look at the year of creation - 1984. In the USSR, the general secretaries change every year, the general line of the party changes, no one believes in the idea of revolution for a long time and it is necessary to somehow show how difficult it was to keep the gains. Whites are sadistic ghouls, reds are good and noble. A white officer uses a defenseless girl, and a Red Army man, a simple illiterate man, will not come to mind. That's where the nobility really was in Russia!
5 out of 10