From person to person. House to house. The eponymous story of Alexei Popov, based on which the film was shot, could not be found on the network. Probably, this is for the best - if you are familiar with the written source, then you definitely begin to compare it with the picture. You don’t want to do this in this case, because the picture is absolutely self-sufficient. Leonid Makarichev shot “Through the Fire” in the so-called “late Soviet” period. During these years, many excellent films about the war were created. Probably, the directors were looking for moral and moral guidelines in the heroic history of the country, partially lost at the “decline of socialism”. And although neither the artists nor the filmmakers witnessed those terrible events, they were a generation raised by an inspiring example.
The above fully applies to Alexei Ivanovich Buldakov, for whom the role of the partisan Savely became a full-fledged debut in cinema. His Savely is a collective image of a Russian peasant: cheerful and resourceful, quick to joke and musically gifted. Most importantly, he is in love with his country. Partisan films are the most dramatic. At the front, on the front line, in conditions of incredible human tension, soldiers know that on the left and right, but especially behind, are their own, and for partisans the enemy is everywhere. In any village, on any road, and after the creation of special Yagdkommandos (' false partisans' - teams of fighters from among the most reliable local residents of the German order) - even behind any tree. The enemy is everywhere, but no one has canceled your assignment. It must be done and will be done. At any cost.
There are a lot of emotional episodes in the film, but the beginning and ending are especially memorable. In these shots – and guiding and connecting threads in the fate of Pavlik Komarov, whose role was perfectly played by Borya Krichevsky. Two unforgettable scenes: farewell mother and son and the first minutes in the apartment in the besieged Leningrad. At the beginning of the film, Pavlik is naive and trusting, as a child should be. But in war, children grow up early, so in the final Pavlik is quite different. He saw pain, death, grief. But most importantly, he saw kindness, participation, responsiveness. What he saw did not harden Pavlik, it taught him humanity. - Is that for me? You. Eat! The synopsis does not say the main thing that the film reflects the fate of the first partisan convoy that delivered food to starving Leningrad.
P.S. In September 1941, the blockade ring closed. Almost 400,000 children remained in Leningrad, from infants to schoolchildren and teenagers. Famine began, the most severe bombings began, a cold winter came. In September, almost all restaurants and food stores worked in the city, but by November people began to die of exhaustion. The food is out. The road of life hasn't started yet. Leningraders understood that they would face imminent death, but they continued to work, defend themselves, and defend their beloved city from the Nazis. In early March 1942, 161 submarines were assembled with a wide variety of food supplies. The train consisted of 28 tons of flour and more than 14 tons of other products – grain, meat, peas, honey and oil. The partisans had to break through two fortified lines of defense of the Germans: first, the one that the Nazis created around the “guerrilla region”, then the main front line. On the way of the detachment to the cart adjoined all new sleigh carts. When approaching the front line, there were already 223 of them. The train moved strictly at night, during the day the sleigh and horses were hidden in the forests. March 29, 1942, the train crossed the front line and went to the location of the 8th Guards Division named after Panfilov.