There in the distance, in the Soviet avant-garde The kolkhoz, village, rural, people’s, Soviet avant-garde is one of the labels I would put on the film There, Beyond the River. And this is not the intention to somehow hurt, humiliate, diminish the significance of the film. On the contrary. This is really unusual for the Soviet screen. It is not stereotypical for the Soviet audience. Natural avant-garde in form and accents. How the camera moves, how the characters of the film behave. At the same time, the film is made on a topic quite understandable for the same Soviet viewer - the fight against banditry immediately after the civil war, collective farms, party cells and the like.
Feels the style of director Mikhail Ilyenko. Fuzhou (1994), and partly The One Who Walked Through Fire (2011) are close in spirit. But decidedly the most interesting of the three films I've watched, "There's Away." Very original production.
The plot is simple. A young cotton man comes to the village after the civil war. And is taken for the fight against local bandits who disturb the villagers. That's all. In this film, the main thing is the plot, not the story, but how it was shot. And that’s what makes cinema an art. Bravo actors, writer, director. And so
9 out of 10