Quiet and warm, gentle happiness. . . From the bank of the Oka in all directions are revealed shining distances, close and distant plans of forests - from light and silvery under the sun to mysterious and dark, preserved in its depths gurgling streams and noisy crowns of hundred-year-old oaks and pines.
I could not pass by to see that there was no review of this wonderful movie. Sorry. A very soulful film based on the stories of Paustovsky, which after watching you certainly want to read.
The film is about the post-war time, the return from the front and the happiness that arises in the soul of each hero. A little naive because it is too gentle and happy, such as these words:
- Laugh any way you want, and I'm ready to grow some pine all my life. Is that funny for you?
How understandable and wonderful! I love it when there’s a movie like this:
What are you really happy about?
- Right. That's all right.
The 'promise of happiness' is something very beautiful and quiet, something about a bygone, flowing quiet life. About villages, forests, vast Russian expanses, rivers and crossings, and, of course, about love. That all this is not accidental, and it is good that all this is: return to his native village, chance meetings, rainy dawns, inevitable breakups, night calls from a long forgotten person. And it is good that there is a movie with the beauty of Russian fields and rivers, the unhurried voice of Yuri Yakovlev, the “generally” happy Oleg Efremov and a quietly flowing familiar but forgotten melody.
10 out of 10
