Italians play partisan. This is how it looks in their performance. Fuzzy and expressive. Illogical and life-loving.
I take it that it is the order of things to go in a small detachment for a pile of weapons, armed with Thompsons, walls, and 2—TWO!—MG-34. A lot more weapons.
Going through "unimaginable" difficulties - snow, sweat and calluses! Oh, how courageous these rebels are! – the audience should have breathed heartily to the heroic music... " Katyushi. Here is an interesting example that the most courageous actions in the film are accompanied by the arrangement of this melody - apparently the authors wanted to lay direct analogies to the heroism of the heroes of the film and the people who immortalized this melody - this is such a generally accepted reference point was the spirit of the Soviet man that he, as a matter of course, gave references in their paintings, even yesterday's enemies.
Overcoming incredible difficulties - beautiful women, a roast pig, a house courtesy of the bourgeois - the group still gets to the goal. And then the turmoil begins – with the heroine of Gina Lollobrigida – who walks like a cat by herself, based little on the script’s messages and the plot justification of her actions.
Interestingly, the main active force that really resists the Germans and the authorities is the proletariat of the Italian town. But the plot interaction between the “rebels” and the “oppressive organs” is hectic and scripted poorly explained – neither the German pedantic demarcation in actions nor the insurgent organization is given an idea – everything happens “suddenly” and turmoil, and from both sides. But here are the complaints against the authors - Italians!
But even more confusion occurs with the smoothness of the plot, when there is already a military confrontation, the action is scattered across numerous, very unrelated space-time locations - occupying locations for shooting as many "action" scenes as possible, trying to embody on the screen all the available film group dramatic and stunt potential.
Gina Lollobrigida continues to migrate from stage to stage with the loss of the logic of their connections.
What was interesting in the film - the workers' concern about the loss / availability of work / workplace - the whole conflict with the government and the Germans takes place around these issues - What is unthinkable in the films of the Soviets, for what, and the work of a healthy man was provided for us and no uncertainty in the future did not distract him from honor, duty, homeland and other important issues and meanings. And here, it seems, if there were no financial and material conflict, then there would be no bandits. And so it was in all of Europe from 1938 to 1944.
Everything looks really nice. From the point of view of the “big uncles” whose grandfathers and great-grandfathers played these “games” in the “high league” of the Belarusian and Chernihiv forests, the catacombs of Adzhimushkai and Odessa.
6 out of 10