Ivan Makarovich is only 14 years old. Amazing both in the degree of truthfulness and authenticity, and in the strongest emotional impact of the film. Only those who have witnessed the fire of hell will be saved. Valery Igorevich Savchenko was born in 1926. In the time period shown in the film, he was almost the same age as Ivan Makarovich’s friend and mentor, Kolka.
After graduating from the camera faculty of VGIK, Valery Savchenko in 1952 graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute in absentia, while working as a screenwriter of the Moscow Studio of Popular Science Films (films “Science and Technology”, “Agriculture”). In 1958, he wrote the script for the wonderful film Two Fedor. After 10 years, his second feature film “Ivan Makarovich” appears.
The director of the film Igor Mikhailovich Dobrolyubov - who gave the viewer the incomparable films "In Secret to the World" (1976), Schedule for the Day After Tomorrow (1978), "The Amazing Adventures of Denis Korablyov (1979), "White Dews" (1983) - only 7 years younger than Valery Savchenko, and in 1945 he was 12. “Ivan Makarovich” is his second directorial work after graduating in 1963 from the directorial faculty of VGIK (the workshop of M. Romma).
Artist Viktor Makhonin, who created the incredibly organic character of Ivan Makarovich, in the next, 1969, starred in the short film Village Holidays as a tomboy Leshka, and his creative career, unfortunately, ended. What roles could he have played? . .
For the film "Ivan Makarovich" no epithets are not sorry, because, no matter how much I write them - kind, tragic, intelligent, touching, touching - they still will not be enough to convey the wave of feelings in which the viewer literally drowns while watching this movie. A powerful and powerful film.
P.S. Grand Prix "Silver Minerva" at the XXII IFF children's films in Venice, Italy, 1970; Prize and 1st prize at the IV VKF in Minsk, USSR, 1970; Igor Dorolyubov — Laureate of the Prize of the Central Committee of the Belarusian SSR Komsomol in the field of cinema, 1970.