I read "Shadows" while riding a bus in Europe. Perhaps this is the reason for the feeling that this is one of the most Russian books in my memory. Jokes with her ideology, which in the book abounds (and was it possible in those days not to touch it?), here you need to look at how the Russian village (Green Dol) and nature (cliff, Svetlikha, forests, moors, meadows) are shown to absorb, passing through themselves, the description of the people.
How could you not understand then - love is not sold, not bought! You can't take her by force. She's giving away.
The characters and appearance of the characters are captured as if they were not invented images, but real people (and it is clear why, for example, the cliff where the filming took place was renamed Maryin, and a monument to Voronova was installed on a real cliff-prototype in the Altai - the author created such a powerful legend, so touched the strings of the soul, so guessed something folk, eternal). And these people are exactly like Lermontov: Yes, there were people in our time, / Not that the current tribe: / The bogatyrs are not you! Bogatyrs, titans, boulders carved from stone. Their traitors, tormentors, misfortunes, and not break. And even those who are defeated by a vile enemy, by their example, by their memory of themselves, beat this very enemy even better.
And it is not surprising that the book, so fascinating, giving so little to comparable pleasure in the reading process, received an almost perfect cinematic embodiment in the form of a series-saga that has become a cult for several generations, where almost all the actors are selected so successfully, as if Ivanov wrote his heroes from them: and the fantastic Red Marya (Nina Ruslanova) with her frenzied energy, and the soft, but at the same time strong-willed Zakhar Bolshakov (Peter Velyavamiyov) (Ibrasov) wrote his heroes (Ibrashyakov, Shrashyakov, > /b> /b>>>>>>>>> But one of the central characters of the novel Ustin Morozov (Sergei Yakovlev) did not quite succeed: in my understanding, he is even darker, even angrier and dirtier.
A year later, the daughter herself died, quietly, without tears, going to the front to avenge her husband, for this invisible Zelenodolsky boy. He was obviously the most prominent in the world.
The most interesting character in both books and movies is Frol. Mary and Zakhar are exceptionally positive, like Pistimaea and Ustin and the Menshikovs - exceptionally nasty, mean, rotten. They're clear. But Kurganov is different. He is torn to the very end, in his soul the whole muddy and hard life is the battle of the forces of good and evil. And, of course, he is one of the Titans.
To a beautiful series, you can only make a few claims in terms of the fact that several important layers of the book were bypassed: they almost did not show one of the main themes - the disgusting activity of sects; they smoothed the sins of youth Kostya Zhukov, the future Ustin, did not show how he terribly killed, being a German headman, Polya; scenes with the murder of Marya and acts of submission of Seraphim to her husband were less rigidly shown. But this can be explained by censorship, now it would be themselves tasty for the viewer, rating pieces.
The girl who burned at the stake, on hot coals, was a snot, the pot smelled from her. Her hair was cracking, blazing with fire, and she raised her head: “Titya, you taught me standing up to die.” Stop! Or don't you remember?! And they all stood.
In the end, neither Paris nor Belgium could interrupt the impression of the novel, and I searched for Eternal Call for another six months until I bought two volumes in Moscow. Many people say that “The Call” (both the movie and the book) is even cooler. I can't believe it yet. Where is it going?
P.S. If the trilogy of A. N. Tolstoy “Walking through Torment” is devoted directly to the Revolution and the Civil War, the saga “Shadows Disappear at Noon” tells about the struggle of red and white, which has no end not only in the thirties, but also after the war, in peacetime. And this struggle, as it sometimes seems, may not be over even now.
8 out of 10