Director Georgy Danelia managed to create sad and philosophical films that call for much thought. Film ' Autumn Marathon' - one of these.
The main character is Andrei Buzykin (Oleg Basilashvili), a translator who is directly confronted with a midlife crisis. The main problem of the crisis is that Andrei is torn between two beloved women - his wife Nina (Natalia Gundareva) and typist Alla (Marina Neelova), who is also a beloved woman for Buzykin.
Natalia Gundareva in the image of Nina conveyed the image of a woman of old age, who raised her daughter and feels that she was doing a lot of housework, worked a lot. All this is reflected in her external and internal world, emotional state. Nina is the image of a faithful wife who has already experienced such difficult but mundane difficulties of life. She's caring. You can still live with her.
Marina Neelova in the image of Alla is younger, charming, mysterious. Buzykin could not resist.
Oleg Basilashvili in the image of Andrei Buzykin conveyed a rather interesting type of character, in the film he is key. Significantly, he is a translator. In the film, he is shown a lot at work. He is also a teacher at the Institute. He's a philologist. Intelligent. He works professionally with literature when translating. This may indicate his rich inner world, culture, ability to understand and comprehend the beautiful. That's just an intelligent person with all the softness, often has an inner core, and Buzykin is soft as wax. This softness provoked the situation in which he found himself.
The film takes place in the autumn. And the autumn mood is spilled throughout the film. At home, at work, at the institute, on the street. This state of autumn is shown wonderfully, amazingly!
It is important that there is a parallel between the time of year and the age of the main character A. Buzykin. And he, having passed old age, runs a marathon. He runs a marathon in autumn weather in a film in reality. But he is tossing between two women and cannot definitively decide in his years.
Interesting image of locksmith Vasily Kharitonov, neighbor A. Buzykin played by Evgeny Leonov. He's a simple man. His reasoning is interesting. These people are the backbone. The friendship of Andrei and Vasily is important and symbolic.
The moment, let it be brief in the film, when Andrei and Vasily and a Dane walk through the forest for mushrooms together - there is a lot of harmony, beauty, peace. It has a special charm.
Film ' Autumn Marathon' deep, that shows the mental state of an adult, which is inextricably linked with the state of nature, echoing it.
10 out of 10
The masterpiece of Danelia and playwright Volodin, “St. Petersburg” cinema with a rich plot and accurate hits in the selection of actors for roles. Kharitonov’s mighty charisma, immediately crushing European orderliness. Colorful professor from Denmark, successfully opened new possibilities of the Russian language. Brilliant in the image of Galina Volchek (it becomes clear that as a theater director she, of course, was able to explain to actors how to play). Suffering from the winds of her husband Gundarev. Emotional Neyolova, moderately psychotic. Indirectly suffering Ptashuk, forced to perform ridiculous missions. An innocent jacket, a victim of circumstance. Trouble with these women. The film finally reveals the secret that assistant professors are always so busy: they come to the university (not very often) only for classes with students, the rest of the time is unknown where – it would seem. In fact, life is very busy, suspicions of idleness are untenable. From now on, we will understand. The episode of the intellectual suddenly revolt against cattle, the administrative scoundrel Shershavnikov, whose ingenious intrigues the deputy head of the department will now become Efimov, is delightful. Basilashvili is a great artist.
Did you call me? Yes. Did you decide? — Yes. What? — Yes.
The main message of this film is to show the viewer what will happen to a person, with his life, if he is captive of other people's desires. Can such a person be happy? If he does everything against his will, even if you have to stretch a smile. It is not that he cheats and betrays everyone around him. It is even worse that he cheats and betrays himself. No one but ourselves knows what will be best for us. Listen only to yourself and live on the inner, not the outer world. And say no to all the troublemakers in your balance. Our hero lives on a different principle and in his life, except for stupid running. He makes not only himself miserable, but also his loved ones. But we must remember then that just going with the flow of life is a choice.
Just like taking responsibility for your life and living it the way you want, not the right way. But decisive action from such people should not be expected. Either they don't, or they're pathetic attempts. This is what the ending of the film tells us. And in order not to swim with them in an unknown direction, you need to let such people out of your life. “If a person hesitates, move away. Let him come to balance. Otherwise, you'll have to waver together. You will resonate and both will hesitate.” Oleg Basilashvili very accurately conveys the mood of the main character. All the actors are good! Good movie, with meaning.
There are people like that in the world. They are polite, modest, want to please everyone. At school, they had no behavior problems. Years later, they want to be comfortable for everyone. For everyone but myself.
Here is the main character of the film ' Autumn Marathon' can not refuse anyone. A mistress, a wife, a neighbor, an incompetent colleague - all receive consent from Buzykin. Even if he does not need a mistress himself, his wife is not very interesting, there is no desire to go to the woods with a neighbor, or there is no time to edit the texts of a colleague out of pity.
It's very dangerous. A person does not refuse anyone, and does not live his life. He doesn't live at all. Is it a person at all? I immediately thought how important it is not to confuse exemplary behavior with helplessness since childhood.
For me, this is the best film of Georia Danilia, each time leaves a sad, but very necessary aftertaste. We all sometimes find it hard to say 'no' but it’s definitely not fun. Supports the mood of the wonderful music of Andrei Petrov.
This is not the first time I admire the talent of Oleg Basilashvili. Well, a real slug, albeit under the sauce of the intellectual. And how good is Marina Neyolova with this squeaky voice of an eighth-grader and the ambitions of a predator. Beautiful work and Natalia Gundareva with a tired look of an eternally deceived wife. And Evgeny Leonov and Galina Volchek, these are like small roles, but what colorful, when less talented, but more arrogant people score the will of a smart, but indecisive person.
I highly recommend watching. Sometimes. Don’t forget to reject others sometimes.
The picture shows a kind of “bottom” of the psychology of wealthy and wealthy people who, by and large, have nothing to complain about in life. In part, perhaps, it is this security that is one of the reasons why these people do not have to deal with the more serious problems that keep life in a rigid framework of survival and balancing between despair and hope for some kind of insight. Here no one is fatally ill, everyone has a decent education and housing, quite wealthy in their personal life. In fact, everyone here is mad with fat, and therefore the problems of these people are far-fetched.
The picture is striking by the lack of positive characters, because the only adequate character in it is the neighbor of the young mistress, a man of “old temper”, specific and direct. Even the adult daughter of the main character is full of problems in the relationship between parents – it is impossible not to notice them, they are too obvious – but the daughter is all in herself and in her heroic plans for the future.
My wife has been living in a paradigm for a long time: “Oh, it’s not hard to fool me!” I'm happy to fool myself! As a result, the patient breaks down, but – oh, the abyss of weak character! – not for long. In this regard, the wife is quite suitable for her half.
The young mistress of the professor, despite all her cute, innocent appearance, is essentially a mean creature. Her claim to this unequal marriage is clearly beyond good and evil, as she destroys another’s family. And it is not necessary to say here that love of all ages is submissive, let us separate love and passion, love and calculation. Love and stupidity, finally.
A few words about the main character... No, one is enough: a rag.
On the one hand, everyone here is sorry (except Buzykin, of course). On the other hand, tragicomedy here convexly shows the consequences of how some allow themselves to sit on their necks, others - with pleasure settle it. Which of them is the worst? – in my opinion, “both are worse.”
Conclusion. Anyway, as a work of art, the film is beautiful. It is made according to the classical cinematic canons, the plot “catches” and intrigues, does not let go to the end, the play of actors is above all praise. Only the cast of participants simply obliges to watch this movie. And of course – this wonderful melody from the film, it has become a part of our lives.
But despite all the sarcastic and ' sadcomic' the plan of the film is still some kind of depressive, it does not cause bitter tears of sympathy with anyone, but only bewilderment or irritation. Perhaps this attitude to the heroes of the film and wanted to achieve its creators. Then they succeeded, applauding standing.
One of my favorite movies was the Autumn Marathon. Because I was young and stupid. I watched it and realized it was an unbearable, cruel movie. He is neither entertaining nor comforting. The authors are ruthless. Especially unbearable Barbara and uncle Kolya-neighbor. And the main characters are no better, I want to cry and beat my head against the wall, looking at them. This is such hopelessness that the perestroika black does not go to any comparison.
The glimpse that happened to the main character after he experienced physical pain is so brief and again a quagmire. And considering how all this is done vividly and reliably, how brilliantly our whole life madhouse is depicted.
It is not possible for this film to relax and nostalgia. It's a big deal!
We remembered, revised this Soviet film, and again gave it credit: lyrical, comedic, witty, perfectly conveys the spirit of the time.
I wonder if Buzykin is a positive character. It seems that the actor Basilashvili fully gifted him with external charm, intelligence and kindness.
But the heroic personality of him did not work, and could not.
It was so stagnant. Hypocrisy and lies permeated all social institutions - power, education, law, art. The family was also affected by this evil.
The main character, due to the impossibility of being an internally free person, was unable to perform actions.
He would fly on his wings for his love, but it meant leaving his only daughter and wife, tired, sunk from domestic hardships, in poverty and shame. Salaries of employees, regardless of their qualifications, were meager, and he could not keep them.
He makes free translations for an unscrupulous and untalented colleague, as it is impossible to see her humiliation and fear of being dragged into the proceedings of her poisonous intrigues.
Nor can it bend the arrogant neighbor, the representative of the working class, the hegemon of the proletariat!
Finally, he is forced to endure the whims of a foreign professor assigned to him for the exchange of experience: at that time, he was distinguished by his catering to foreigners.
So Buzykin lied endlessly to everyone and himself, stepping on the throat of his own fate.
Almost with tears in his eyes, without strength, daily, early in the morning ran to the marathon, just to avoid explanations, not believing in any changes for the better in his life.
But he was still a hero of his time, that is, a typical representative of the intelligentsia of that era.
And autumn seems to have gone somewhere, but we continue to run somewhere for some reason. This marathon lasts a lifetime, knocking hooves on the pavement, on our, on someone else's, on the neighbor's. You only have to look around to see the path you've made, bam! and you're stuck in the back of your head in a roadside pole. It hurts when the head is torn off, but it sounds great music.
The Autumn Marathon is a metaphysical film for me. Of all that Danelia showed here, I can only boast that, like the hero Yevgeny Leonov, he also sat in the kitchen in a motley company. Like everyone else. But the concept of a “long marriage” passed me by. Probably, with the passage of time, a man has a certain desperate determination, he is able to live with one, and run to another, but all these movements seem superfluous to me. Well, the time of the type was different, and it is always the same, well, divorce was treated differently in the Soviet years, but do not care about them all, well, a career requires a certain wife, what nonsense all this at all.
Danelia himself called his special genre “lyrical comedy”, but, to me, this is quite a vicious satire. Absolutely all the heroes are charming in their imperfection and irritating with their Soviet mediocrity. The film turned out for centuries, because there are no going careerists-quiet people (Basilashvili here just infuriates), shawl girls, melancholy waiting at the window of their beloved for centuries (Neelova also wants to run away), even Leonov kills with his simple alcoholism, and the heroine Volchek complements the picture with some doomed dullness. A foreigner, as an alternative, a comparison of lifestyle, thinking, is also presented here brilliantly.
In general, the film is ambiguous and made it again music. Almost all of our directors started with collaboration with composers. As far as I can tell, this was the Soviet way of production and it was very reliable at the time. There was no great song, there was no great movie. I love George Danelia. Probably more than our other directors. He never offered anything unequivocal. It was difficult in those years.
This phrase, uttered at the very beginning, can indicate the main idea of the film.
The main character performed by Basilashvili really does not strain. His work isn't dusty. Although he is not enough stars from the sky, there is always money for flowers for his mistress. He's talented. But to move a finger or work to realize his own gift, he has neither the desire nor the strength.
The wife (performed by Gandareva) has long been “stripped” on the partying of her husband. The mistress (played by Neelova), although she arranges scandals, is ultimately ready to understand and forgive! No one believes Basilashvili’s character when he tells the truth. But when he lies, he gets away with it! Therefore, he has no choice but to lie, lie and lie again.
It seems to be a love triangle, where one of the “corners” is trapped and confused. But it's just on the surface. If you dig deeper, the meaning of the film is completely different!
"Hero" Basilashvili still cannot make a decision. Before us is a collective image of the hero of our time. These are "unstressed" people. They go with the flow. Near them can swim or drown their loved ones. But the "heroes" will do nothing to help them or swim with them in the same direction (even if this direction is favorable for the characters in every sense). These heroes are always on their own. They are at the highest level of selfishness. And, if somewhere awarded prizes for selfishness, such heroes would receive the highest awards!
This is the value of this classic, “Autumn Marathon”. This is truly a marathon. But he doesn't have a finish line! This is the hopelessness and meaninglessness of the existence of such heroes. And this is colorfully and in detail revealed by both the director and the actors!
Writing about acting doesn’t make sense! They are so brilliant, self-sufficient and accurately convey the character of their heroes that they must be watched!
First time I watched the film 'Autumn Marathon'. Somehow it so happened that this film, the classic of Soviet cinema, passed me by. After watching, I sit confused. Toli from the fact that the features of Buzykin, Alla and Nina know in yourself and your loved ones. And somehow it becomes very bad in the soul, dreary and impenetrable, because, as was said earlier, a new character can not be bought by a person, and generally now I hold the opinion that people do not change.
And therefore it becomes even more dreary, since there will be no happy ending in this story. And what is worse, such a buzy, all and nin, is extremely high.
The main character causes me a negative attitude, it is these kind people who spoil the blood most, those who want the sheep to be whole and the wolves fed.
But problems tend to accumulate and then a whole bunch of problems grow out of one problem. So will our hero hang out between two women, as, forgive me, but in the hole and I do not feel sorry for him even a bit, the unwillingness to make a decision is your decision - live and suffer, so no, more and others make to suffer next to you.
8 out of 10
With what pleasure, with what pride I can state the fact that I am not like Buzykin. What about Buzykin?
According to his Charter of Translators, he is honest. He doesn't push people away, he translates them. Translates their souls, their desires, passing through themselves, like a doctor who puts experiments on himself. He is a talented translator, his talent is under his skin, he cannot help but translate, he got carried away, lost his head and lives only by his translations. The trouble is that people around Buzykin either don't know or don't want to know each other. They do not hear each other’s language, they do not understand each other’s compassion. Honest translations of Buzykin do not unite, but divide his neighbors, bringing to the brink of suffering. And Buzykin, like that Mandelstam flute, was stuck somewhere between the knees of knotty days, not retreating from his vocation to bind, bleeding builder. Tragic medicine turns out.
I won't throw a stone at Buzykina. Perhaps in my brutal age I will find hope.
10 out of 10
O Man! You are a cell or a network! The soul, like a bird, wants to fly away, but it is difficult for a bird to fly away on branches, only it will fly away.
Prisoner of winter apathies and melancholy,
(pale infirmity, unviable appearance),
I'd like to be Lola running Lola,
He knows exactly where and why he is going.
No matter what you say, “whatever happens”
“Whatever it is, it will be what I want.”
Test me, Doctor, if you give me a shot.
Give me your last gift for Christmas.
Red mane and fast legs of Lola.
And nothing.
other than that,
Nothing.
Eva Tenetskaya
Bright red, as if hot, in the tone of Lola's hair * telephone tube - the starting point of history. If you pick it up, everything starts, spins in an endless spiral, dances in a crazy dance, twitches in chronic time. Run, Lola, run! Run, run away - fast, fast, without looking back, on all sails, with all your spirit - because you are waiting at the other end of the line.
Andrei Pavlovich Buzykin, 46 years old, married, except for his wife, staffed by a married daughter and a passion with matrimonial plans, works as a translator (talented!) and ... always runs. Runs on the steps of the subway, on the university ladder, in company, but more often - alone, on the sleepy and awakened streets of his native city, on undivided bridges. It runs like Shakespearean love ("Love runs from those who chase it, and those who run away, throws itself at the neck ..."), and, it would seem, to it, but in fact - from it, and therefore with a double loop thrown by two different pairs of hands around the neck. Runs under the incessant chirping of the beep of the wristwatch, and without them - late globally, but runs even faster. It is only in the apartment of the main character "little cardash" due to repairs, and in his personal life - a huge one. Faces keep flashing around him. Female: wives-sufferers (usually Natalia Gundareva got temperamental roles, although here her N. E. tears up her sleeves at the gifted mistress jacket miracle as expressive!); hapless fellow student Varvara (for the dream stolen from Buzykin in the image of Scofield Volchek is not eager to immediately send... at least to the Intourist guide); the heroine of the official novel typist Alla (ah, Marina Neyolova is a nymph with an invariable childish voice of Alice and ballet grace; how she cooks, and tyshes, and does it, and does it still save?): Male: Danish colleague-professor (the true wealth of Russian slang discovered during the filming of Norbert Kuhinke: “alkach” and walker, “sober”, “everything and business”, “we sit well”, not to mention the literary classics, about the “liquid green”); Zhovial neighbor, a mushroom picker with experience and adherent of the Slavic traditions of Kharitonov (Eugene Leonov with an imperish song about Marusenka – is it possible without him at Danelia?); the daughter of Koliya Kolija (the voice of the whole generation). And a lot of others, vague or not memorable on the run.
Run, Lola! The speed of your travel depends on the life of another person. You promised him to be strong. Will you be strong?
Where the character of Oleg Basilashvili runs is not so important. Why and what he is running from is essential. Is he running away from everyday life, from age, from himself? The thing is, no. He runs just inertia, in a circle, like a horse on a merry-go-round, or in a circus, or the one whose hooves are hinted at on the pavement in the film. It is, of course, “we are all a little horse, each of us a horse in his own way”, but in support of another small, cheerful horse, which “does not live well”, each of us is fond of its revolutionary views for the future. And from Buzykin, the rebel is bad. He's weak. And pity him, and pity those who suffer from his weakness. He does not think about what causes pain to his loved ones, and if he thinks, he prefers to run away, including from these thoughts. He put up with the established order and even finds excuses for maintaining the status quo: “Alla, you know that I can’t change my life anymore.” It is more convenient to soothe yourself with the help of a talentless colleague or for a blezir to reject the reading of a D than to decisively change something or change yourself. Book and cinematographic inclusions in the course of the plot of the picture both escalate and comment on the situation of Buzykin, on whom “everything is piled up”: a poem dictated by him by Allochka at the beginning of the film (“Why pump water with empty steam, and why fall the star of the fumes?”). For no one? Just in case?); an excerpt from “The Sad Life of a Rogue” performed by Galina Volchek (as the script of Alexander Volodin was originally called, later reborn in “The Autumn Marathon”) and translated by Hansen “The Humiliated and Humiliated”; a remark from the TV, clearly parodying “Seventeen Moments of Spring” (“Otto knew that he had forty minutes...”). But Andrei Pavlovich dreams of stopping, he has long been not happy and eternal call, and eternal running.
“It was not close to me at all. I thought: here I have a partner, a wonderful actress Neyolova. Could I have had an affair with her? Probably not. Gundareva... Nope. So what does Buzykin mean to me? And I realized: for Buzykin, the most expensive thing is a desk, books. And no one else! And he sits like Marshak and enjoys: this is mine. You don't have to prove anything to anyone! And you can make a book! And it would be good if these women married some heroes-cosmonauts, arranged their fates and left him alone.
However, his flotilla of those whose ships maneuvered, maneuvered, but did not catch, the “Broken Moon” is in a state of total ruin. It is inside, and outside – gray dull tones, melancholic types in public transport (oh, this ability of Danelia to notice and then fix the quiet charms of domestic reality!). Consonant with them, the chords of the main melody of Andrei Petrov do not add optimism to the picture, but in the eyes of those who accept Buzykin because of all his shortcomings, the Autumn Marathon acquires colors and meaning. And how desperately you want to see the end of not life’s path, but the marathon race of the main character! So that on the faces of close-up - himself and his women - reflected instead of universal longing confidence that, finally, once and for all, will leave their use unscheduled seminars and meetings of the department, as well as the crown phrase: "Here they knock, I'll call you back!" Running apart, but is Buzykin able to afford the possibilities of Tykverov Lola? And the voice is not the same, and the determination is hardly enough for the second take. Five minutes of respite - and again in battle, in the slaughter, in the race, without end and with a forgotten beginning, outside the seasons and against one's own desire.
Run, Lola, run, because you are running, not running, not sliding, not draping. Because your life didn't go upside down through your fault. Because you're going to take the chance to replay her last episode.
Lola is the main character of Tom Tykwer's "Run, Lola, Run"
Once again I enjoy watching Soviet cinema. Pleasure, incomparable with the one that comes from the vision of modern films. It is one of the cohorts, when the sincerity of impressions and the truthfulness of positive emotions do not lend themselves to doubts, reservations, or at least one “but”. “Autumn Marathon” by Georgy Daneliya is another pride of Soviet cinema.
The film is so simple, so meaningful. The character Buzykin is not a fictional personality born of an inflamed fantasy. The main plot is contained in a short thesis – be able to say “no”. This, in turn, does not mean the same thing as offending, hurting, insulting anyone. The ability to say “no” to both the president and the beggar is worth a lot, because such a tricky thing is inherently stupid and parasitic thoughts about what other people will think. Naturally, typical indecision develops over the years, and mainly from childhood. So Buzykin is a vivid example of what a man can become at 40 years old if he does not dare to overcome a real ailment.
Unpleasant and ugly, when everyone around, I apologize for the expression, the “failless giver” is satisfied and even happy, while this “man in a case” is forced to tirelessly participate in the non-stop marathon of life. No, everyone participates in this marathon, but at least they have the right to rest and put themselves in order. It is terrible when an individual does not notice at all that every day lived involves the satisfaction of other people’s desires and requirements, but not their own needs and goals. Scary...
We all know that marathons are actually designed to test the capabilities of the human body under very impressive conditions. Only here the autumn marathon of the hero Oleg Basilashvili spreads its path for completely chaotic actions of a weak-willed man. When there is disorder in life, there is disorder in the soul. Characteristic was the scene at the institute, when students vying to offer synonyms for the word “run away”.
A wonderful and moving story. I noticed more sadness than comedy. Although the virtuoso work of the director does not manipulate the consciousness of the viewer and does not squeeze tears out of him. When you start crying, you get another funny moment. It is not a sin to learn from such films. The expression "without knowledge of the past there will be no future" is strongly applied to Soviet cinema. Well, what is it? And not just the cinema.
"Autumn Marathon" by Georgy Daneliya. Watch a good, great and soulful movie. Also.
Cinema is very vital. A lump in life, what in work, what in personal life, not able to stand up for himself, all the time afraid of offending someone, loose, pathetic ... But attractive to a certain type of woman. Those who have an urgent need to take care of someone, take care of someone, in general, have an excessive maternal instinct. He makes not only himself miserable, but also those close to him. And the crooks take advantage of it.
But, as the classic said, a gentle man can be driven to rage. But the flash of consciousness is unlikely to last long if a person does not have an inner core. Does the main character have one? The final answer to this question is unambiguous.
Are all these seemingly miserable people miserable? Yeah, it's pathetic when you look. Because the authors skillfully, very talentedly immerse in the atmosphere of their existence. Empathy is involved arbitrarily, without will. Then, almost in the final credits, when you start to think about what you see, you realize that people have chosen their roles and play them. They are so comfortable, they are afraid to change something. The unnaturalness of what is happening to them may be obvious, but bearable. Why pity those who do not pity themselves? Maybe we are. How many people live in one way or another? Massa! And it's scary. Some lie, others pretend to believe. Others “love the goat” because “love is evil.”
Another quote from another opera: what is the tragedy of the situation? in the mediocrity of events.
The film is a masterpiece.
You can treat Lyudmila Ulitskaya and her work differently. But one of the writer can not be taken away - to smear the life collisions of her heroes with deaf black paint she can masterfully. The novel “Sincerely Your Shurik” is about a talented, kindest, but absolutely spinless person. In an effort to please a huge number of equally close women, the hero for several years lives, in fact, several lives, which does not make him happier. Ulitskaya can easily be suspected of plagiarism, because the tragic picture of Georgy Danelia is about the same. The Autumn Marathon is already 35 years old, but as it turned out, the type of Andrey Buzykin is quite relevant today. Do not immediately wave your hands, looking at the pathetic attempts of the Leningrad translator, saying, “I would not allow this.” Relationships with loved ones are like fragile glass. Making mistakes and forever losing mutual understanding in such matters is easier than easy, but to achieve true harmony is a great art.
"It's all dead!" Letting bubbles!
How did the extremely honest and open in Russian Buzykin come to life like this? Can one of the greatest human virtues turn into a curse? Finally, is there a way out when everyone is just nodding, but no one helps aspire? There is no escape from the theme of running - it permeates the entire film with a blade. Andrey literally moves by running, because only in this way he can keep up to all addresses. Analogies with running a marathon runner simply beg for. Even a very hardy styer cannot keep a single pace. The distance is too impressive and willy-nilly have to break it into stages. Also lives Buzykin.
Stage 1 - from wife to mistress
"Hello Ye!"
In the caustic replica of Alla, it seems that all the woman’s hatred for the more successful in her opinion rival is concentrated. There is no enemy worse than a rejected woman. It is not known why Buzykin even needed an affair on the side, somehow it does not fit well with his own decency. Women love determined men, but here is the paradox: both Nina and Alla independently believe that having decided who he should be with, Andrei will change. A naive position, for the roots of Buzykin’s amorphity lie much deeper. The character Ulitskaya lost the core as a result of a purely female upbringing. Maybe the hero Oleg Basilashvili has a similar story? You can't buy another character. Apparently, at a certain stage someone instilled in Buzykin the idea of hyperresponsibility for everyone and everything. It's not like my daughter is very proud of her father's upbringing. She builds her life rather in spite of her parents. She does not ask for permission for a long-term trip. As for the two beloved Andrew, in some ways they are radically different. But here we are talking about the difference in status. One, despite resentment, is afraid to lose it, the other, horribly straightforward methods, yearns to get it. Mildly or harshly, but in fact neither one nor the other do not try to feel the beloved, to save him from suffering. Yes, sometimes hard cutting, you can resolve the contradictions. But a man like Andrey can only be killed.
Stage 2 - from the Institute to the apartment of Varvara
"Leningrad is a small city, Andrei Palich"
Andrei is valued at work, but with his lifestyle, he inevitably begins to disrupt the deadlines for the delivery of his transfers. Imagine a situation: you have a close relative, you love him, but he regularly lets you down, repeatedly setting you up. Would you tolerate that? Of course, everyone has the limit of patience. A colleague of Buzykin, Varvara is the embodiment of the consumer approach to people. She is not called a villain, life itself suggests ways to solve problems. An amazing thing: uncouth Varvara even undertakes to “resolve” Andrew’s personal problems! It turns out that he can be caught alive. Buzykin is able to scream and rebel, but it only gets worse. Over the years, people get used to somehow perceive and such a sharp metamorphosis will not find understanding among others. The tragedy in the film is even more than it seems. It's scary to see Andrew go gray in front of his eyes. God does not give man goodness to make him mad. Where's the exit? Leningrad is not a “small” city, you could find another place to work, because Buzykin remains a strong professional. It is not without reason that people tend to get away from the hassle.
Stage 3 – from kitchen to yard
"Sitting well"
This phrase is just a hymn to the whole way of life. As for Ostrovsky, “only everything was sewn-covered.” A shameless neighbor-plumber in all parameters antipode Buzykin. Even the baggy appearance of Yevgeny Leonov here at the cash register. Kharitonov is far from being a monster of intelligence and is not particularly drawn to a manipulator. But Andrew’s spinelessness is so screaming that a great mind does not need to use it. During a forced hike on mushrooms, Buzykin muses gloomyly. He is not stupid, he understands the value of his life. Why can't he be like his neighbor? He kicks, but it's just a one-off act, bringing only more trouble. And the output is on the surface: you could just not let the booze on the threshold, especially if the work is on fire. A clumsy method, but for someone like Kharitonov will do. Leonov used to be perceived as kind, but there are cases when simplicity is really worse than theft. Again, Vasily Ignatych is not a villain at all. Surrounding Buzykin somehow reveal the negative sides of the personality. Even the dearest Hansen with his European delicacy easily subjugates Andrew’s ego. In Denmark, he probably ran alone, but he does not want to go abroad. Cowardice deprives Buzykin of even elementary sleep.
Surprising in the “Autumn Marathon” Oleg Basilashvili, still can not believe that this is the same actor, a few years earlier, played a scoundrel Samokhvalov. It was only necessary to hunch over, try on a tasteless robe and yesterday's handsome man turns into a miserable outcast. Watching the talent of Basilashvili, one can only guess - what could be our loved ones, life for them somehow differently.
Could this story have had a different ending? I don't think so. Because by the age of 40, it is too late to change and a person only reaps the benefits of many years of work, or rather the lack of work on himself.
Andrey, and V is a walker.
- I'm a walker!
This is the price of dimensionless kindness – a person is ready to consider himself anything. An incredibly sad story from which everyone needs to draw conclusions, and the level of their own goodwill does not matter. Andrey Buzykin is a grotesque image of man for anyone but himself. He cannot truly love others because he does not love himself. And doesn't respect, which is worse. In his mad running, the grievous translator should have stopped and looked in the mirror more often. One day, behind a bunch of female and male images, he had to see himself. I didn't. And we all need to see . Let us be sincere first in front of ourselves, and only then in front of others.
10 out of 10
According to Georgy Danelia, an architect by first education, the idea of each picture began with a visual image, which reflected the combination of proportions and rhythmic relationships of the future film. In this case, we can say that in the Autumn Marathon he achieved the highest proportionality of forms with the generous use of architectural elements. Behind the attractive facade of a subtle lyrical comedy with a simple-minded main character is a variety of interiors, among which there is a textbook unobtrusive satire, and the late gloomy criticism of the author, and a strict literary composition by the screenwriter Volodin. And the main place in it is occupied by psychological portraits of characters drawn from life in Leningrad, striking with their photorealistic accuracy.
Continuing the traditions of Chekhov and Dostoevsky, the authors focus the plot on the translator and English teacher Andrei Buzykin, a funny man in a case in which abstract altruism is combined with a complete inability to change anything in his life. Stuck on a bridge with his wife on one side and his mistress on the other, he assumes the role of a Buridan donkey who doesn’t know the bridge is actually a drawbridge. This is a person who does not have enough time and energy to finish a small renovation in his apartment, not to mention more serious changes. And yet the main metaphor of Buzykin’s life is running. But there is nothing sublime about this run. He runs from one ghostly target to another, unaware that the finish line will never appear. And if for someone else happiness is not a goal, but a path, for Buzykin the whole path consists of inertial movement in a circle, in which, in the end, no movement is made. The idea of incessant running haunts him even at work, where at one of the classes with students the subject of discussion becomes synonymous with the word “run”.
In order not to turn into a driven horse, Buzykin needs a close person who in a difficult moment will be able to take over his baton. It can be either a wife with whom he is experiencing a crisis of family relations, or a cocky, annoying, but still caring mistress who wants to formalize the relationship. Both women love him in their own way, but can you say they understand him? In fact, they are not interested in his problems at work, his relationships with friends. They pursue a selfish desire to immediately get rid of their rival in order to get their loved one forever, but they use straightforward methods to do so. The mistress requires increased attention to herself, and the wife scolds for every mistake, however, there are really many of them in Buzykin. A fellow student of the main character, who, although exploits him like everyone else, feels sorry for him in her heart, trying to help him solve his dilemma.
Professor from Denmark Bill Hansen, whom the main character helps with translations, perhaps embodies the side of Buzykin’s personality, which he cannot show because of the vain lifestyle. He is immersed in labor, strives for cognitive activity, knows how to relax, and running for him is only a way to maintain physical shape and lift the mood. It is symbolic that the questions on Dostoevsky’s work, which he wants to ask and which can potentially help the main character to understand himself, remain not only unanswered, but not even voiced.
Another peculiar alter-ego of the main character is the locksmith Kharitonov performed by the “talisman” of director Evgeny Leonov. An immediate, easy-to-lift person, he in one day introduces the professor to Russian life better than the protagonist for all the time. The bitter irony is that, as a call worker, a locksmith has much more freedom than Buzykin, whose work and rest every day last from one phone call to another. Perhaps Kharitonov really deserves a fashion jacket more than the owner of a gray inconspicuous coat.
But even in the most downtrodden and weak-willed creature, the master of his fate can wake up. However, he will bring not only new achievements and new friends, but also new problems and new enemies, so that a person will inevitably think about his sedation. So is it worth chasing your own personal, unique happiness of all the inevitable tribulations or is it better to just go with the flow, and whatever happens?
- Did you come to the Soviet Union? - Arrived, yes.
- How long? I will be leaving soon.
All my life I did not perceive Soviet melodramas. Well, I didn't consider them a model in the genre, because there were brilliant comedies. We are not talking about them now, but it is still obvious to me that the skate of the USSR was comedies, not dramas with melodramas. But such films as “Autumn Marathon” should not be missed in any case in life, simply because they are not comedic at all, although they contain some “Gogol” humor. It doesn't matter if it's a melodrama. Genre does not matter at all when you are in front of a brilliant film with a beautiful and vital theme - the theme of a spineless person.
Buzykin is a good translator, a certified teacher and in all respects an intelligent person, married, with children and a mistress. It's just like humans. But here's the problem. He cannot refuse a single living soul. It's quite tragic because people are relentlessly taking advantage of it, which ultimately leads to internal conflict. - Will you help me with the translation? - All right. - Would you like a drink with me, neighbor? I have to work, it's morning, but of course ... And so it is everywhere and with everyone.
The same situation was sanctified by another wonderful Soviet film "Destination" with Andrei Mironov, which is not as famous as "Marathon". But both films wonderfully reveal the theme and nature of a rather modern type of man who always and everywhere swims with the flow, without causing storms and as quietly as possible. This is no longer shyness, this is lack of character. It is not for nothing that almost every mother says to her daughter, “Don’t go out, daughter, but also beware of spineless heels, they are even worse.” Look at how, for example, Bazykin’s mistress suffered, piercingly played by Marina Neelova , from the situation with the family of her lover (in which he is not even able to confess to his wife of treason). The hero is insanely pathetic, but the people he pulls with him, too.
It would seem, well, what is the problem here? Just say no. Just admit it. Just be brave. Swim against the current, if you don't like something, don't let yourself be violent. But for Buzykin, it becomes a problem of his life.
That's too bad, isn't it? - Why not?
- You crossed it out. - Well, some little things. For example: "The goat cried in a non-human voice." I couldn't leave it.
- Which one? - Nothing. Just screaming.
I have to say that the scenario is beyond all expectations - just for all time. And of course, the acting roles of diverse Oleg Basilashvili, touching Natalia Gundareva, inimitable to my beloved Evgeny Leonov and a foreigner Norbert Kuhinke, made this story some whole, soulful, and sometimes crazy comic, but within the genre of melodrama.
I can say with confidence that the Autumn Marathon has a lot to review and I think that if I ever catch it on television, I will gladly do it. There is something else that can be rediscovered. And just enjoy the well-coordinated play of the most talented actors, already masters.
9 out of 10
The film is about the humanities as a special, ineffective category of people. The humanities are the most beautiful, there is no dispute, but, in vain, invented for disorganized slackers and brides.
The whole film, the main character in the person of Oleg Basilashvili is trying to adjust his affairs, manage everything in one day, but, as you know, there are too few hours in the day - and then he again does not have time to get home before the bridges are broken.
Everything that Buzykin takes on, he turns out with equal success. Not having time to take up one case, you have to switch to the other two. A situation where efficiency tends to zero.
This problem is quite relevant for the modern world, there is a technology of time organization - the so-called "time management". People who fail due to lack of time and organizational resources are irritable, prone to depression, and sleep poorly at night. What can not be said about Buzykin, a man very balanced and not burdened by the weight of “conscience”.
Personally, the film is interesting to me primarily from a historical point of view - in it I see the places where I spent my 5 years of study at the University, 20 years after the shooting of this film.
We are talking about the concept, unfortunately, has its own temporary affiliation - for 1979 it is still applicable, in our time it is just a word stuck in the lexicon due to the isolation of its carrier from modern realities.
The Autumn Marathon is a masterpiece. Real, not one whose genius is sucked out of the finger by critics. For he speaks of complex things in simple, public words.
... So, he lives in the world, in the city of Leningrad, a good man, a translator. In addition to his wife, he, like any decent man, has a mistress, not very young, and not beautiful, but still. With one he connects – as the hero of another film – everything except debt, with another – nothing but debt. In general, all three of them understand perfectly well, all three are good people, but none of them can or may not want to take that single, decisive step to untie this Gordian knot. As a result, the classic love triangle, of which there was, is, and will be an immeasurable number.
But here's the nuance. Perhaps it helped the film that almost all the creators and actors involved in the film went through similar stories in their own lives. Hence the sincerity and authenticity of what is happening on the screen.
And this film says that you can not escape from yourself; if you are not born a rebel, then any small act of rebellion that you start ends with puff, and return to your favorite stall.
9 out of 10
This is, of course, a purely philosophical question. But the “Autumn Marathon”, oddly enough, asks him, and he also answers. If you think about it, of course. Where did the real men go?
Take, for example, a Russian citizen Andrei Buzykin, who lives in Leningrad sometime there. He lives with his wife, N.E., a woman who is domineering but boring. He hasn’t had a light in his eyes for years. And can not refuse her to live together Buzykin, because the daughter, a large apartment and a party. And who is more difficult to refuse N.E. or others is not clear. Then there's Allochka, the mistress. Lights, but presses. And the baby, and the stamp on the passport. You can't say no, either. Shame. And I want to, and pricks, as my grandmother said, whose second youth just fell on the age of the characters of the film. And also to the general picture of troublemakers, we will arrive a neighbor - an alcoholic (well, how not to drink with him?) He asks very much, still directly insists!, Professor from Denmark Bill (here is a nickname - even an interethnic conflict is organized because of little Buzykin) and fellow student, former, Varvara Nikitichna (still offended, and the resentment of women is terrible). So he runs in a circle, like a pony, Comrade Buzykin, although running does not give him a drop of pleasure.
All this pressure, persuasion, oblique glances and “what if they think bad about me?” and makes Buzykin live such a worthless, petty life.
Amazingly thin. Great acting. The film is not about the adultery of the Soviet period. Keep your eyes open, gentlemen. A film about a bang. Not with a capital letter, alas. And this is perhaps the only (and the first for sure) in my memory where Oleg Basilashvili’s weight is so low and crumpled. Even his hero walks, bending and leaning. Oh, shit, shit!
I remember, when a child was allowed to “adult” movies, he was twisted “Moscow does not believe in tears” and other fairy tales. The Autumn Marathon was often behind the scenes. Because there's an uncle cheating on his wife, and it's bad for kids to watch that. Not about the movie, gentlemen.
And about the fact that you need to look more deeply into yourself and ask: "I'm a creature trembling or ..." ?
Once in one of the reviews I saw on this topic - "Bitter truth in any case is better than betrayal." I totally disagree. I would put the question this way: Is it possible to poison this “bitter” truth? I think so. To place all the dots above and cut all the threads with a “one blow of an axe” – in my opinion this is not a confirmation of the strength of the human spirit, not a feat, but primarily a “beautiful gesture”. People love these gestures. But most of the time, it doesn't lead to anything. Remember the episode where Alla breaks the telephone wire. But after a while, he calls Buzykin again and asks if he has decided anything. Here's the "gesture."
The film made me think again about the topic: is it necessary to make these gestures? After all, there are situations in life when you love and can not do anything, when you try to solve, and get confused even more. Make a tragedy out of all this? You can get out of your mind. It is no coincidence that in the credits we see a “sad comedy”.
Yes, everything that the main character does can be mean, nasty, anti-moral and thousands or thousands of “smart words”; all this is sad, sad. Yeah. But then why comedy? I think it’s because of these “gestures.” Remember how Vasily Ivanovich Kharitonov, Buzykin’s neighbor, makes Bill drink? Although Vasily perfectly understands that they have no time to do translations, but still he makes this “gesture”. What is it? The desire to acquaint a foreigner with traditional Russian entertainment, or it happens so, is due to inertia; but nevertheless, this “gesture” also causes some ridiculous and ridiculous troubles, because everything ends in a sobering-up. It seems that everything that is not done in this film by the heroes of the faithful, brave - everything is turned into a joke. And even Nina's wife returns to the apartment, having already left her husband a note that leaves forever. Nobody leaves. Here’s what you could call this movie. In fact, everything is back to normal. You can make versions and plans, and life goes on as usual. The marathon continues. And whether the direction will change, whether the same route, the same track will not get bored, it will not be decided by gestures. Funny how, even people are sometimes powerless. Not that they are uncharacteristic, but simply too kind, soft.
For me, this film is a general irony of dramatic changes. Perhaps to change the situation, you need to change yourself. Or maybe it's just empty words again. And while we sit and verify, our marathon of life continues. Everyone has their own. Funny, funny, ridiculous. Or maybe tragic and unbearable. And it depends, I think, just on our attitude to life. This film is easy to define the human temperament. Yeah. This is the best indicator for me.