From heaven to hell, from hell to heaven. After watching the film 'Bursa', I had the impression that I saw a good, strong canvas made by a person who knows his business.
Very interesting and cheerful, but not without its contradictions, the life of the bursaks is depicted very vividly, colorfully. The cast is simply wonderful: the actor-character Gennady Goryachev in the role of the bullish and unprincipled Mitakha is simply incomparable, Sergei Maksachev perfectly played the role of the rebellious Satan. And the constant choral accompaniment literally immerses in the atmosphere of these old church chambers and cells.
Just blows the spirit of that antiquity, where, as if, and did not put on the racks of Russia Peter the Great, and the Age of Enlightenment passed by these ossified beards of priests and inspectors. But the trends of the new era still reach to this ' the island of the Middle Ages'. As in the original source, the main conflict here is the confrontation of pedagogical methods: spanking and ' all-consuming fucks' (in the words of the author himself), as a pledge of order and science - a new system, more democratic, but, as shown in the film, no less vile. Skillful insertions of some episodes from the story do not contradict the plot, but, organically weaving into the canvas of the film, add color to it.
Indeed, in the coursework of Mikhail Vasilyevich Vedyshev there is nothing to complain about. The status of the film ' based on ' works by N. G. Pomyalovsky ' Essays by Bursa' sustained by the director within the framework of the problems and idea of the story, which in our time deserves special praise.
8 out of 10