Keeping people alive In many ways, a banal post-war story about the former operetta artist Dmitry Gromtsev (Valery Zolotukhin), who, after being wounded, cannot return to his business, having also lost his girlfriend.
The movie is a little weird. Expected to sympathize with the main character and even achieve it, he is still inconsistent, and in some ways even pulled by the ears. For example, an operetta artist, and even able to pick up an accordion, is indispensable for frontline agitation brigades and there is nothing shameful in this - and the work is not easy and the risk of being under fire and bombs is considerable. Nor is it very clear why he could not be on stage, even if he did not sing in the operetta. The fate of the beloved turned out to be something very melodramatically cruel against the background of the unpleasant environment of the “rear rats”. The final and at all, it would seem, “merges” the hero. Given the impending perestroika trend, such a social context is not so much realistic as ideological.
Well, at least Valery Zolotukhin plays as it should - plays a man who is not broken by fate, but who finds the strength to please people, preserving human dignity even as a tamadah at weddings. And in this sense, even the “fastened” ending hints to us living today how much the military generation sacrificed for the sake of the common, but preserved the human in itself.