Happy Birthday, Andrey Tashkov! Today is the birthday of actor Andrey Tashkov and let me congratulate him by writing a review about the film “Dear Edison!”, where he played the main role. Without any sycophancy, but with a pure heart and a free conscience, I can say that the picture of Isaac Friedberg came out flawless in all respects. Moreover, there was not just a drama, but also a kind of detective, even a detective to a greater extent. In the course of the film, you constantly catch yourself thinking that this is a detective and look forward to the denouement, because it is not possible to predict what it was all about.
The film is made in the spirit of the acclaimed painting based on the novel by Vil Lipatov “And this is all about him”. The main character is summoned on the carpet to the regional representative of national control, comrade Shirokov (Leonid Markov), and the memories of a young man begin, consisting of eight chapters or parts. Once on distribution in the Rechen Instrument-Building Institute, talented and promising Viktor Grigorievich Odintsov (Andrey Tashkov) in an instant turns into persona non grata. The fact is that when Viktor Grigorievich was studying at the institute, he was not only a good student, he was one of the best, but to be exact one of the three bright heads, as the distribution commission told him. Of course, Odintsov did not want to go to provincial Rechensk, even went to hold advice to Professor Prokhorov (Nikolai Volkov), to which he simply and unambiguously replied:
I always tell myself, never complain about fate, it might not be.
That is, in fact, the question of whether to go or not to go to Rechensk disappeared by itself. And Victor drove to the province. And in the province, which is not a girl, then certainly Tatiana Larina: sad, smart and with a scythe, according to the director of the Institute Sergey Trofimovich Smirnov (Vladimir Menshov). I wonder what kind of braid Vladimir Menshov's character meant. There’s no love story in this movie, so I’m sorry. And this in no way spoils the viewing, but only enhances the impression.
Having worked for 7 months in this institution, Viktor Grigorievich, like his colleagues, were called, as I mentioned above, to the leadership on the carpet. I will not tell you what the dog is buried in there, I will only say that we will talk about intra-institutional intrigues in which the one who has strong armor and our tanks are fast will be able to survive. In this regard, the character Razuvaev, an employee of the laboratory, who was inspired by Alexander Fatyushin, is very interesting. One sentence from his mouth is worth:
- The less I work, the better I look. And it was not a crooked, not a posturing mixed with faux pas, but his own life position.
We will meet with Stanislav Veniaminovich Ivinsky, a scientist who will play a very significant, if not decisive, role in this picture. And he will play the role of a scientist Anatoly Romashin, who brilliantly performed his work. Isaac Friedberg's film is filled with wonderful and intelligent dialogues, which are now very rare. But this is not a set of clever thoughts and quotes, not at all. This is just the outline of the essence of the film. And the essence is as deep as our whole life. The picture turned out to be so diverse, multifaceted and multi-component that obviously one viewing is not enough to experience all the charms of that era and that system, both from the good and the negative side. And, as in any wonderful creation, the film was not without a song. No, it doesn’t sound at the beginning of the film, it doesn’t even sound in the middle, that is, it doesn’t pass the refrain all over the canvas. But in order for the picture to be completed, it is needed and it will be. The main character will perform it when the credits go. The song on the poems of the famous writer Rudyard Kipling, translated by Samuel Marshak, under the voice of Andrei Tashkov. If you are intrigued, then watch this smart and subtle movie!
10 out of 10