All life is like a moment. Films of the early 90s, with rare exception, have a characteristic feature - a sad-minor mood. It seems as if life stopped in 1990. In fact, it was: the former country was not already, and a new one was not yet built. That's where they went. Filmmakers were looking for “novelty” in what was previously impossible to shoot – repression, judicial arbitrariness, eroticism. Erotic, especially. Few pictures of those years were complete without naked charmers, who looked in the frame as “did not sew the mare’s tail”. So Leonid Popov could not resist the temptation to demonstrate the nudity of actresses, although he could do without these scenes. After all, when he co-authored with Albert Mkrtchyan “Sannikov Land” (1973), he did not undress onkilons in the plague. But after 17 years, it had to be done because the script was so weak. The picture was advised by the Vice-Admiral, Lieutenant-General, Colonel, Major. But who and what did they advise? How to arrest an officer while on watch? Or how to interrogate “spies”? Is it possible to steal a boat from under the nose of the camp guard? In itself, the story of lost love somewhere even touches the viewer. This is greatly facilitated by musical design. There are only two songs in the picture, but both are “to the point”. Yuri Filatov performs the famous song “In the Cape Town Port” (aka “Janette”), written in 1940 in Leningrad by a ninth grader, the future naval doctor Pavel Gandelman: “They went where you can easily get yourself and women and wine, where beer is foaming, and drink is not lazy, where narrow skirts crack at the seams!” The second song, folk, “Golden Days Begin” is performed by Nikita Dzhigurda, who was apparently looking for inspiration for his future “masterpiece”. Superman involuntarily, or Erotic Mutant: (1993): I know all the steppe roads... Stop crying, my baby, we will not be betrayed by black horses, the crows will not catch up! The final was the most emotional due to the excellent musical design of Stanislav Vasilenko. Under the melodic glimpses, I want to empathize with the main character Nikolai Korolev (Fyodor Sukhov), although the ending looks not patriotic at all. It turns out that the hero lived in his native country as in hell, and then in distant America suddenly glittered paradise.