Our men in any fire are the first! In the 80s, many films were shot on kolkhoz-village themes. There were also those who did not quite fit into the usual framework. The usual theme of a milkmaid in this case is somewhat aside, although the main character - Grigory Egorovich Gorelov (Sergei Prokhanov) - is a mechanizer. That's just the problem in the picture he solves a little unusual. First, the moose saves at the cost of its own tractor, then the “dump” land offers to “raise”. Today, such a conflict may seem strange, and in some places completely contrived. But this is only if the viewer did not watch the film before the credits. It is there that the “highlight” hides, which greatly changes the “taste” of the film: “Aleshkino” is a village of the non-black earth zone of the RSFSR, first mentioned in the chronicle of the XII century. Such an extract from the "Geographical Encyclopedia" should be placed at the very beginning of the film instead of the epigraph, then the conflict with the chairman of the kolkhoz because of the "small piece of inconvenience" would acquire a completely different sound.
The fact is that the villagers have been crippling these “wrecks” for generations – 800 years! There is so much peasant sweat that it will last for a whole salt lake! And all this is for a quarry, so that in 20 years there will be a deep pit with rusty standing water? That is why Prokhanov’s hero, a determined man with a strong character, is trying to defend these lands. And the point is not even that he and his brigade have already invested a lot of work in the improvement of the land, but that the land requires careful treatment. If you have sincere love for her, she will even save you from a German mine. You can, of course, scold the film for a weak script, for the inconclusive motivation of the characters, for false pathos, for an inconsistent love line. But why? Victor Pavlov in any role at height. Elena Nightingale in a vatnik is as charming and charming as in crinoline. The older generation of artists - Viktor Shulgin, Fedor Odinokov, Yuri Dubrovin - exclusively in their place. And if so, then even an inconclusive story looks with interest - there would be favorite actors in the frame.