We are ours, we are the new world. . In the remote Siberian village of Ptyunki, a dreamy young man Ivan Shishlov is building communism. The 1920s were a time of peace and new economic policy. Shishlov’s NEP is not clear, and therefore he continues to establish a new socialist life with renewed energy, not noticing how the lives of people around him are collapsing one after another.
Director Vladimir Motyl called Shishlov the most political and unromantic of all his paintings. Filmed in 1987 on the play by Athanasy Salynsky “Molva”, it passed unnoticed on central television and was soon forgotten.
There was too much doubt about this movie. Too many uncomfortable questions. Was the experiment in building socialism successful? How much does the truth cost? Is there life after war, especially if it is a civil war? In the year of the official beginning of Perestroika, it was not accepted to talk about such things, and there was no time.
The title role was perfectly performed by Igor Lyakh, familiar to everyone by the role of his son from the film Love and Pigeons. Together with him, the socialist tragedy to the music of Isaac Schwartz is played by Tatiana Dogileva, Alexander Kazakov and the amazing Victoria Kuznetsova.
What else can you say? For years we used to travel around the world of the 1920s together with the characters of Ilf, Petrov, Zoshchenko, Averchenko, Bulgakov. It is time to discover new heroes, for example, Ivan Shishlov from the village of Ptyunki.
8 out of 10