Booh-Lap-Tep The genre of children's cinema has always been popular in the USSR. A good quarter of all game tapes, regardless of the declared genre, were shot for children. Children’s movies are different too. If there are real adventures in the picture, this alone adds significance and “weight”. Alexander Kurochkin made only four films, but all of them are dedicated to children, and in each of them there was a place for the first serious trials of children just entering adulthood.
This is how three inseparable friends appear before the viewer: Yasha (Sergey Naplavkov), Oska (Yuri Bobkov) and Alyosha (Murat Ahmadiyev). All three are “foundative” beyond their years: both guns are handled skillfully, and they are not afraid to go to a wild lynx with horns, and they will never disappear in the taiga. The film was shot in a beautiful place, and the operators managed to convey the beauty of nature - from impenetrable swamps to stormy rivers and mountain ranges.
According to experts, once the picture was released in two versions: on 35 mm film, the film was color, and on 16 mm – black and white. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a color version, so I had to settle for black and white, the format of which was once widely used in filmmaking. However, even in this form, the picture of Alexander Kurochkin makes the most pleasant impression.
An interesting story was written by Ignaty Ponomarev. It reflected real friendship, and comradely wink, and excitement of the first timid feelings. Young actors do not play so much as live the lives of their heroes. The older generation of artists is represented by bright episodic roles: grandfather Makar (Arkady Trusov), the Reverend Father Nikolai (Lev Polyakov) and the extremely unusual, but perfectly played by Gergiy Zhiyonov the role of “two-faced”. Gregory Anikina. A good movie about the guys who will grow up to be real men.