History of fake reference Life is changeable. Now the sun is shining over you, the snow is shining under your feet. At every step, fellow villagers greet you by name. They say hello respectfully because they see you as an example, authority, and protection. A beautiful young wife beside you, and she has in her arms your firstborn son, your blood and your flesh. And hope. And happiness. But happiness is an inconstant quantity. It can peak and then collapse, dragging you to the bottom of despair.
All these words are about the main character of the picture, the young chairman of the collective farm Roman Baklanov (Julian Panich), who returned to his native places after the institute to make the life of fellow countrymen better and more meaningful. And everything is arguing in the hands of the young chairman, and his plans for the current year are huge. I don't want to live, but enjoy the new day. So would Roman, if not for the father-in-law Semyon Grigoryevich Katyshev (Mikhail Ivanov), who drank a kolkhoz haystack.
And all would be nothing (after all, everyone is stealing!), but only stopped him by a traffic police officer and demanded a certificate certifying that hay is his. Not a certificate. It can be written only by the chairman of the kolkhoz, confirming that the hay is personal, not collective farm. And turned! Roman Baklanov - a man of principle - immediately removed his father-in-law from the car and poisoned him to the livestock yard. Here would end the story of the “quiet” drunkard, but he has a wife Pelagey Dmitrievna (Olga Averichev) and a daughter native – the wife of the Chairman.
As it often happens, “family law” won, Roman wrote a certificate to his father-in-law, taking a pledge from him from drunkenness – more “ni-ni”! The father-in-law dutifully agreed and immediately went to “wash” this case, and on joy and left the certificate prepared for the police in the hands of someone to whom it could bring much benefit, becoming an argument in the outright blackmail of the chairman. So began this difficult story, written by prose writer and screenwriter Sergey Alekseevich Voronin and shot by Yuri Alexandrovich Musician.
In the first half of the film, I had no doubt about the color of the review — green, of course. Types are bright, convex. Every hero is in his place. There's no pretense or falsehood. But then... I admit that the work in the survey parties, laying the tracks of new railways in the Far East, the Urals, the Volga region and the Caucasus, and then working as a journalist in the newspaper Smena, gave Sergei Voronin a lot of uninvented material, but still with such behavior of the Chairman I can not agree. This is not logical at all.
He doesn't look like a coward. He understands how much and why law enforcement agencies can give. Therefore, he had many opportunities to avoid such oppressive consequences of his “good” act. But, as they say, you can not throw out the words from the song, and here: what the Musician shot, we watch. Whether we agree or not is secondary. By and large, the film is moral, instructive. In some episodes - a bit pompous, but this is only a tribute to that time. The main thing is that it leaves a sense of justice.