Friend for Victory This wonderful project is not as purely entertaining as it may seem from the outside. After all, here we have a deep conflict of friendship, and a complex love story with mutual hatred (which, I am sure, is the strongest form of love), and a famously twisted detective. Screenwriters definitely didn't go free...
The actors! Oh, my God, and they say that we lack young talents! Both Nikitas, Panfilov and Efremov, just without exaggeration, GLOW on the screen! Overshadowing even such amazing women as Anya Chipovskaya and Julia Peresild, whose merits, by the way, also no one canceled. I'm not saying that as an aunt (if you thought it was clear that the girl liked boys more). Nope. These young artists are really, really, really cool. How much suit and charisma! Respect.
And the main idea of the work was unequivocal: if you are alone, you will not win. To become a winner, you need to have friends behind you. Dumas probably invented the golden ratio - about Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Here this concept is openly duplicated (and why invent a new one, if the old one still works so well?), but revealed in a fresh, unblemished quality. And, paradoxically, all of a sudden, the nineteenth century sounds acutely evil. Exposing the present vices. It is about eternal values.
I'm really happy.
PS: The only thing you can complain about is that the 19th century speaks to the 21st century. Then they said otherwise. But perhaps the authors deliberately adapted the past adverb to the modern viewer, and therefore the “job” is not too subject to fair criticism.
9 out of 10