Brothers in spirit The film is based on real events that took place in Kerch during the Great Patriotic War.
In Kerch lived a boy, Volodya Dubinin. He was like all boys his age, swimming in the Black Sea and one Sunday morning turned his life upside down - the war began. The brave boy helped the partisans who were hiding in the catacombs. Many feats on his account, but the ridiculous death after the liberation of the city ended the life of the young hero. Volodya is not forgotten – streets and pioneer camps are named after him, a wonderful writer Lev Cassil wrote a book about him, and Soviet filmmakers made a film about Volodya. But the Odessa film studio also decided to make a contribution to his memory, because his feat is akin to the feat of Odessa partisans, who also hid in the catacombs.
As always, films of this kind show a pre-war peaceful life, happy and serene. Our heroes did not make an exception, only this life was shown so dull that you are already waiting for the arrival of the invaders to revive the action, but the shown black pages in the history of Kerch do not much animate the cinema, and the indistinct death and the authors’ view of the long memory of the dead complement the minuses of the film.
The film is safely forgotten, and Voloda Dubinin and his fallen comrades eternal memory.
4 out of 10