Front by front. In the title, I quoted the title of one of the parts of the famous Soviet film trilogy about the actions of a military unit under the leadership of Mlynsky (he was brilliantly played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov). But here we have "the same, but not so!", although the essence is the same - strike the enemy where and how you can!!! This is what this series impresses: many of its heroes, patriots, Poles and Russians, die for their land, for their people - just to defeat the fascist beast (well shown in the scene when children were tortured and tortured in front of our arrested agent in the Gestapo!). It was, it was hard... As for the overall idea / script concept of the series "Front"... Oh-oh-oh! Here it is necessary to go through the archives, memories of the same Sudoplatov, and even Beria himself (in the series he “actively” oversees the operation). I'm sorry, but I don't really want to go into such "debris" (and KinoPoisk would not give me so much space!). Therefore, I will offer the best option: who wants, will “investigate” and tell us about it in his review (and we will read!), and I will simply state my thoughts and observations about what I saw on the screen.
. . . So, what screen? Here's the first question! Here, on the page of the series, the year of its release is 2017, but the date of its premiere is not indicated. In RuNet, on online sites where you can watch the series "Front" for free, is the year 2018. And in the final credits of the series of the manufacturer "Epic Media" clearly appears - "2014". Who do you want to believe? Unfortunately, I don’t really watch TV right now. But if the “Front” really recently “passed” on some federal TV channels, then why did they not need it for 3-4 years? If you want to know, call the studio. For some reason, I don’t want to call...
Dear friends and colleagues! My business, in fact, is not to delve into the vicissitudes of the release / not the release of this or that film / series, but to write reviews of what I saw and share with you. So I'll start, and right now - about the Front, succinctly and succinctly.
I gave the series a good “seven” according to the totality of the script / directing / shooting / acting. “Front” is quite good TV series about the Great Patriotic War, which, after some time, I will definitely review (and this is very important for cinema when they want to watch it again!). Well, of course, critics and “cinema” here – “above the roof”, but, fortunately, all “not terrible”. On that below.
In the second series, after shooting at the cars in which the "nuclear professor" was taken away - not a single bullet hole (of course, the cars are rented for shooting, rarities!).
In the third series, the German troops are dropped ... from the Soviet aircraft "LI-2" (aka "Douglas", supplied to the USSR under "Lend-Lease"). Couldn’t the studio’s computer graphics have drawn at least the transport Junkers or the Arado-232, by the way, which is not entirely original in the TV series Kill Stalin (2013)?
... In the same third series, our main characters, Polish and Polish, suddenly forget about the Polish language and communicate in Russian, as well as in the future. And our beautiful Pole (Magdalena Gurska) is free and easy to do without his (in an aesthetic, modern frame!) glasses.
... In the fifth series, shit is just a pond! In the camp for the “displaced persons”, that is, for the “doubtful” prisoners of concentration camps, etc., among whom was our main character, a complete mess is created! “Lagernikov”, it turns out, was almost not searched (it was excluded!!!), why the heroine had her purse with a secret notebook in her hands, and others had sharpenings and other weapons. For such “sloppiness and oversight” the head of the camp would easily be shot!
.. . Here some critics are confused that people in the camp are “on a diet”, and the guards in front of their eyes burst stew. It was! Or have you forgotten about the Gulag, about camp dust? Only here it is all about the Front, where everything is stricter.
7 out of 10