I'm like you! Few films are capable of stirring the soul to make you watch the same picture again and again, while each time experiencing the same deep feelings. The creator of the film Boris Vladimirovich Yashin tried himself in all “hypostasies”: actor (" Nine Days of One Year (1961), director (" Autumn Weddings (1967)), screenwriter (" Joke" (1966)). He has few jobs, but there is something elusive about each. This “something” is difficult to express in words, but it is it that makes you from time to time turn to the work of the director to drink from his source of inspiration the crystal purity of unobstructed human feelings.
The script was co-written by Eduard Tropinin (" The End of the Ataman (1970), “Furious” (1973)) and the oldest domestic screenwriter Anatoly Galiyev. The story was vivid and memorable. There are few characters in the film, but they are all tightly connected, soldered to each other - take one out, and the film will spread in different directions. The main characters are two: physically maimed front-line soldier Seraphim (Nikolai Olyalin) and morally maimed by the war Sasha (Svetlana Dirin). But not only in this they are similar to each other: loneliness is the lot of one and the other.
And when two solitudes converge, people have a goal - to live not for themselves, but for the sake of someone. Svetlana Dirina played her Sasha brightly and extremely convincingly. Her expression on her face, her silence, her shattering voice, all create a sense of almost doom for a person who no one wants. But Seraphim, for all his power, looks mentally broken. The only way for him to communicate with the world is through his eyes: mournful but infinitely kind. Nikolai Olyalin is an amazing actor! So play without saying a word in the whole movie! Special thanks to the composer Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky, who wrote music that speaks for the silent Seraphim, responds to Sasha’s heartfelt experiences, triumphs with natural beauty.
In episodic roles, the color of our cinema is involved. Kolka-machinist (Nikolai Yeremenko) is an arrogant guy who boldly takes advantage of the almost complete absence of men: “I just hang, and the women themselves will run.” The front-line blacksmith Mikheev (Yuri Nazarov) is an open, decent person who has seen a lot. Railwayman Boris (Gleb Strizhenov) is a “quiet poacher”, and in life – a scoundrel. A resident of the village of Kudinikha (Maria Skvortsova) - "I was very much alive!" Brigadier Pavel (Lyudmila Zaitseva) is a widow who looks after the orphans Luca, Katka, Egorka and unrequitedly in love with Seraphim. A good movie in which people for the sake of their own happiness do not go over the heads of others: "It can not be good for a person when others are bad ..."