The Hidden Warmth of Patriotism Still, how unfair was Fate in relation to Valentin Nikolaevich Vinogradov, although initially the career of the young director was very successful. He studied at VGIK in the workshop of Mikhail Romm, in the same group with Shukshin and Tarkovsky. With Shukshin we were close friends. And with Tarkovsky, relations were good, but more complicated - we were in love with one girl, Irma Raush, recalls Valentin Nikolaevich. In the second year I starred in his first Vgikov work – “Murderers”. After graduating from VGIK, Vinogradov got to the Belarusfilm studio on distribution. There, instead of a thesis short, he was given to remove the full meter - "The day when he turns 30 years old." But that was the end of luck, because "The day it turns 30." Vinogradov considered "not to the end his own." But “their” work seemed to the then film directors too independent. Valentin Nikolaevich put his whole soul into them, and officials in this soul - with scissors and bans.
“Wait for me, Anna” is just that. Shot on the novel by Yuri Nagibin “Far from the war” it was supposed to be so called, but the “sleeping eye” of censorship did not find feats in the picture, and the name was forced to change to neutral and “deep rear”. Today, it seems strange and even ridiculous, the motives that guided the then film executives, encouraging some and silencing (at best) others. It's always easier for adapters. It is harder for those who believe their point of view is correct and are ready to defend it to the end. Valentin Nikolaevich Vinogradov was just such a person. He wanted to make a new movie, in which there would not be a tarnished lacquerness of many paintings of that time. He “rebeled”, experimented, trying to convey to the viewer his point of view.
In 1990, the film was released again under the editorship of Valentin Vinogradov. And in 2010, a year before the death of Valentin Nikolaevich Vinogradov, Maxim Krivitsky made a documentary film "Diary of the Director "Wait for Me, Anna", which told in detail about who and how "strangled" this wonderful film. Vinogradov himself explains the difficult fate of his films as follows: I did not go in the nostril with the authorities. I'm a passionate person. When I started working, I didn’t think about my boss. I just wanted to make it happen. Everything else bothered me. This is my misfortune. I don’t have a single live movie left. That's not how I behaved. They say, "Make amends!" And I'm, "No, I won't." It exploded, not like Tarkovsky. Tom will be told, "Make adjustments," and he will say, "I'll think about it." Didn't explode... It doesn’t matter if the result is the same.
Valentina Nikolaevich has not been with us for five years, but his films remain. Filmed by a talented artist, they even in a “reduced”, “truncated” and “emasculated” form allow the inquiring viewer to see the depth of the author’s idea. It’s easy to do – you just need to try a little.