Stop and yours don't dance! Summer of 1918. Brothers Petka and Vaska, left without a mother, go with their father-the Red Army train to Moscow to the godmother. There are also their colorful fellow travelers - resourceful street children Yashka and two White Guard conspirators. Yashka, a petty thief and performer of songs for every taste, goes straight to the Kremlin to Lenin himself. The enterprising Yashka has a plan “as in one day all the bourgeois and all the contra – once!” And yours are gone. The brothers' father is soon murdered by the same white conspirators. Since then, the merry and sad adventures of Petka and Vaska wandering around Moscow begin: fruitless searches for the Nura of the Cross, meetings with Lenin and Dzerzhinsky, friendship with young and hungry communards from the Union of Working Youth, assistance in uncovering the counterrevolutionary conspiracy. Part of the events takes place on August 30, 1918 - on the day of the assassination of V. I. Lenin and the murder of M. S. Uritsky.
The movie is black and white, dynamic, ironic. What an amazing conversation!
Here, for example, the homeless Yashka - so that's just a master of wit!
"Yash: The first shot - gop-stop and yours do not dance!
- Are they stealing to give back?
Batch: Maybe they don't steal, I'm self-taught.
- Why do you need the real thing?
Batch: For the purpose of defending a free person!
Or here’s another: in the woods at Lenin and Dzerzhinsky broke down the car. Walking and collecting mushrooms, they meet Petka and Vaska. Boys, of course, do not recognize them and generally at first distrust. Especially suspicious junior - economic and "pampered" Petty. Then communication is established, but the names of adult comrades to brothers do not say anything about it.
Remarks are fire!
"Lenin: Hello, comrades!
Dzerzhinsky: Hello!
Vaska: Hello...
Peter: What a hello! And now you grab the pot and run, right?
"Rooster (Lenin):" Uncle, why are you so bald? Did you get typhus too?
"Lenin: Well, how did you decide? Do you want to join the Bolsheviks or not?
Rooster: Of course, the Bolsheviks! Now all the Bolsheviks go, the easiest thing!
Lenin: Here you go! . "
In the film there are sad, even tragic moments: hunger, vagrancy, betrayal, murder, death. However, the picture is optimistic and leaves a pleasant memory.
Directing and scripting at level. Good work of directors, costume designers. The kids played great! The film features Anatoly Romashin (Dzerzhisky), Mikhail Gluzsky and Boris Bityukov (white conspirators). Episodically appear Lydia Smirnova, Nina Agapova and Valery Nosik. This is not the first time Boris Smirnov has acted as Lenin.
It is a pity that the film is not appreciated, forgotten. I was lucky enough to come across this film while watching B. Bityukov’s filmography. “In the Name of the Revolution” is one of my favorite movies.
A fascinating children's revolutionary-adventure picture with humor and a note of grotesque. Fans of Soviet, naive, but qualitatively staged historical cinema I recommend with all my heart.
"In the name of the revolution ..." This is the name we use, this is the name we create.
10 out of 10