Life at supersonic speed 'Heaven, you are joy and you are our trouble, the sky of flight is happiness, but sometimes the wings break in the sky, and the sons are hidden by the Earth forever. In the sky, there is a white thread curling overhead. I hear, I hear your voice: you have to pay for height, for beauty & #39;
From the very first shots, the film literally fascinates with fantastic speeds in the sky and relaxed meditativeness on the ground. Probably, covered with a halo of romance, military pilots should be just like this: quick to joke and jokes in the circle of friends, and extremely gathered at the helm of the aircraft when piloting. Films about pilots in the USSR were shot a lot, but the work of Nikolai Litus and Leonid Rizin has a distinctive feature characteristic of films of the 60s: a kind of minimalist manner of presentation of the video sequence. Nothing superfluous, everything is simple, concise. It is this manner that allows you to focus on the main thing - on the characters. The film consists of four novels, tightly woven into a single plot. Four novels - four stories of young lieutenant pilots: Zhora Protasenko, Nikolai Boldyrev, Andrei nicknamed 'AC' and Alexei.
': The sky, you shine on my wing, the stars cover my way in the darkness; the sky, you only do not know how hard it is, unless you are waiting on Earth. In the sky, there is a white thread curling overhead. I hear, I hear your voice: both purity and beauty must be preserved.39
Different characters are different types. Fate took too little time for Jore Protasenko: did not fly, did not finish, did not live. He left on takeoff. This is how he was remembered by everyone who knew him. Nikolai Boldyrev is the first big role of Nikolai Olyalin in cinema. And what a role! A handsome man! Appearance and texture are completely uncharacteristic of his subsequent roles. Similar ' unexpected originality' Nicholas is easily and permanently remembered. The story of Boldyrev is the most ' branched' because it is Olyalin who unites all four novels, as if strung them on his core character. Another debutant is Yuri Kuzmenkov. His Andrei is the most complex and most vulnerable character of the picture. If Nikolai Boldyrev manages everything easily, on the first try, then Andrei invariably pursues minor failures.
39 Heaven, you are near and you are so far away, heaven, you are low and you are so high, you hide many mysteries, and it is not easy to discover your secrets. In the sky, there is a white thread curling overhead. I hear, I hear your voice: be patient, it is not enough only to love me.39
It seems to be nothing serious, but he does not want to be constantly on the second roles, and he even begins to think about changing his profession, but then a new car appears in the regiment, and ' AC' ready to show everything he is capable of. No less dramatic is the fourth novella with Vladimir Petchenko. His Alexei is shown as a man of high moral principles and faithful to his official duty. Both are extremely vividly revealed in his extraordinary act during the fog. Pilots ' work ' in the sky, and they live on the ground. They have a home on the ground, a family. Someone already has a wife and children, someone just a picture. Female characters are not given much time, but it was more than enough to show how difficult it is to wait. Wait and hope nothing happens to your loved ones. Wait and hope that the weather will be flighty, and complex equipment will not fail.
'The sky is a wedge seen by the eyes, the sky of boys turns into men, the sky, the harsh sky, but still in the hum of turbines - I am your son. In the sky, there is a white thread curling overhead. I hear, I hear your voice: without height, without beauty we cannot live. #39
The technique in the film is really complicated. This fighter-interceptor MiG-21PFS (PFM), which made the first flight in 1962, and fighter-bomber Su-7B developed in the late 50s Sukhoi Design Bureau. Such advanced equipment had to be removed in a new, advanced way. Operator Vitaly Kalashnikov showed wonders of ingenuity to convey to the audience both the indescribable charm of flight and the indestructible power of fighter aircraft. Many scenes are literally mesmerizing, and some literally conquer completely unexpected angle of shooting. If the camera hypnotizes the viewer with a magical boiling of endless clouds, the music of composer Vitaly Kalashnikov fascinates with video-consonant motifs. The musical culmination of the film, without any exaggeration, is the unspoken anthem of the Air Force pilots - 'Song of the Sky' (music by Evgeny Zubtsov, words by Vladimir Karpeko) in an incomparable performance by Soviet and Ukrainian opera and chamber singer Nikolai Kondratyuk.
A bright touching film, conquering from the first shots with sincerity and love for life and profession. In its extreme openness, demonstrating a willingness to sacrifice at any moment. But not because it was necessary, but because otherwise they simply could not. . .