A cool series about the horrors of the scoop In appearance, the series is quite standard, hulking cranberries on the fashionable theme "life at the scoop" - labor exploits, simple Soviet food, portraits of Brezhnev at every step, the main character is a little bloated, but with a recognizable face Baluev is a positive Soviet boss. In general, it looks like everything that our viewer loves to indulge in pleasant nostalgia.
However, from the first series begins to take doubt, which quickly grows into confidence: something is wrong! Under the guise of an ordinary pseudo-Soviet thrash, it turns out, we are shown the Soviet stagnation in all its ugliness: crime, corruption, the power of the Puregan, the chic gold mines in the Ural mountains - almost the Wild West, or rather the Wild East. It seems that the public does not like us most - what is called "perestroika black".
But the picture is really large-scale: the action takes place in Moscow and in the taiga, in the squalid suburban chaloops and in the chic general's choirs in the center of Moscow, huge money is spinning in Soviet times, among the characters - ministers with prosecutors and homeless people with bandits, currency prostitutes, catals, student, musician and candidates of sciences. .
The plot does not make sense to retell - but it is dynamic and unpredictable for good, and new moves, characters and storylines constantly appear in it. I have never met such inventive screenwriters in our rather monotonous serial business.
Famous stars for such a saturated action are few, in fact, only two. But Baluyev, in my opinion, opened up in a new way, playing the old taiga wolf Lagin, and Maria Poroshina (his wife), just struck with her beauty and at the same time a very accurate game with a minimum of text. But the young actors did not disappoint, they are remembered.
In general, an interesting image of the stagnant USSR was obtained, unusual in our cinema - as a wild jungle with a "war of all against all" and with the practical absence of not only socialist, but even any legality. Living in such a USSR was fascinating in its own way, but also, without a doubt, very scary. Perhaps, the series will not arouse any nostalgia - on the contrary, we are convincingly shown that everything that scares us now, in the modern Russian Federation - originated even then, with, as is now commonly believed, "blessed stagnation."