Wolf pack, ruthless and merciless ' Wolf Pack' here is used in an allegorical sense and perfectly corresponds to the rabid pack of German-fascist invaders, who do not disdain anything in their beastly greed and desire to tear our Motherland apart, but who got in the teeth.
It is possible that the film did not quite clearly reflect all the events taking place in the story of the same name by Vasil Bykov, according to which, in fact, he was shot. When you read the book, you imagine everything described in it, the moments are much more dramatic and piercing.
And the scene of a long tense escape after a wounded paratrooper in automatic queue ' dug out the Hitlers' their entire dislocation, and that (most heartbreaking) episode when Levchuk and the baby are hiding in the swamp, a ' a flock of rabid wolves' tightening his ring more and more, literally ' gnawing ' and destroying everything surrounding them with merciless fire, a scanty swamp-protective '
At such moments, you simply merge with the book of Vasil Bykov and are transferred to its pages with your whole body, soul and, madly beating, heart. In the film, all this is quite simplified and schematic, although without compromising the overall canvas of the narrative.
In addition, some of the events and nuances of the story (such as the number hiding from Griboyed’s grandfather, wounded Soviet soldiers or the general development of actions in his native village at the time when the Nazis came to his house) are somehow distorted, for which I reduced this film’s score by one point.
Otherwise, this is another excellent adaptation of the story of the Belarusian-Soviet novelist Vasil Bykov on the military theme and I am sure that anyone who decides to read this film will not regret it. Moreover, some images in it (such as Grandfather Griboyed or a young radio operator Klava) turned out to be much more colorful and roomy on the screen than in the book version (at least from my point of view).
Finally, let me add a touch to my review. The fact is that in my Soviet childhood, for some reason, I did not have much sympathy for military films and often or did not watch at all or in snatches, but there were two & #39; exceptions to the rules & #39; two films to which I simply could not remain indifferent and looked from and to, afraid to miss even one moment. And those films were 'Lark' and (of course)'Wolfpack'.
9 out of 10