Opera sound of Russian classics. Russian classics for its connoisseurs and fans, of course, a living phenomenon, inextricably linked with the world of thoughts, feelings and emotions.
However, she is not always lucky with film adaptations that congenially convey the spirit of the original source.
“KazAki” Lev Nikolaevich has only one unsuccessful film adaptation of 1961 from director Vasily Pronin and screenwriter Viktor Shklovsky.
The main failure of the film is the image of the main character Dmitry Andreevich Olenev performed by Leonid Gubanov with his Soviet appearance as a party worker. It is hard to believe that in this character boils the life that is inherent in literary Olenin.
And in general, the film is more like not a movie, but a film production of a theater performance. So many in the “Cossacks” there are pavilion scenes, theatrical acting, unbuilt mise-en-scene, inexpressive play of shadow and light.
There is a feeling that you are watching an opera film, so everything here is conditional and approximate.
I hope a full-blooded talented production of the Cossacks, we are still ahead. Moreover, unfortunately, the topic of the Caucasus and the southern frontier is still very relevant.
My opinion is not bad.
6 out of 10