How a man conquered loneliness An interesting movie was made by Nikolai Figurovskiy. Interesting and a little weird. Such, a little unusual films, could be born only in the midst of the Khrushchev thaw, when artists of all stripes were not obliged to report for each “sneeze” to their superiors. They created and created, tried and experimented, and almost always it was fresh, bright, unexpected. Films about the Great Patriotic War were filmed a lot. It is estimated, if not precisely, then at least approximately how much we lost killed, how many wounded, how many missing. But no one will ever be able to count the number of broken, distorted destinies, which, like a bulldozer, was the war.
The main character Olga Kovaleva (Rita Gladunko) in the summer of 1945, after fascist captivity, returned to her hometown and began to look for her husband, with whom she broke up at the beginning of the war. The set is just for a soulful melodrama without any special emotional outbursts. That’s until the two heroes meet. Finally finding her husband, Olga finds out: considering Olga long dead, a young scientist-mathematician Viktor Borodin (Nadir Malishevsky) married a second time. The collapse of hope can be played in different ways: with wringing of hands, screaming, tears. And you can do it as Rita Gladunko did – almost without emotions, as if a fascist captivity forever burned into her heart all human feelings.
In such a situation, it is very difficult to talk about nobility. Most often, people act on the principle: their shirt is closer to the body. If the new wife Galina (Eugene Kozyrev) can be easily understood and justified, then Victor looks in such a situation far from in the best light: the war has just ended, and a truly loving person would probably wait for the end of the war, in weak hope - and suddenly! But Victor is not, and further developments only reinforce this view. In the first half of the picture, of course, sympathy on the side of Olga, but then everything becomes much more complicated. You can understand her feelings for her ex-husband, but why put an end to yourself? Like any good film, the work of Nikolai Figurovsky is a bit contradictory. But it is contradictory just as much as we do not fit into the standard framework-measurements.
Human life is so complex that no mathematical law can calculate it. Sometimes a person feels as if he is just “going with the flow”, and then it turns out that this is his real life. Good movie: honest and open. With excellent acting: the role of the head of the floating theater Vladimir Kovalev is certainly one of the best roles of Dmitry Orlov. In addition, the abundance of small, seemingly insignificant details reveal to the viewer the usual post-war life: theater tickets for 10-15 rubles, or the fact that to get a separate room, you need to collect and clean 50,000 bricks on the site of destroyed houses! Needless to say, a life movie...