Sex with children, dismemberment, degenerative commies, dirt and tangerines - a new hit from the most talented filmmakers!
Excuse me. I don’t like to write negative reviews, but I just can’t keep quiet. Take, for example, the film “Save Leningrad” – there are images, and drama, and arches of characters, and meaning. And here?
This is speculation on naturalism. This is not a drama, this is an ordinary detective in the entourage (and under the phantom) of "war".
Let’s clearly, so clearly, to discourage the hunt for filmmakers to create such masterpieces in principle. To be ashamed and ashamed of our history. In order not to write down the opinion in subjectivity and taste - I will urinate strictly professionally.
It starts with the foundation of drama. Here, as you can see from the credits, a certain novel. If you see an adaptation in Russia, don’t think it’s something deeper, on the contrary, it means that the film is usually empty. But this is a film, a self-contained work and we will evaluate it. Author of the script.
It's all built in a really bad way. No mystery work. The authors wanted to keep three hours in suspense only a one-time (!) method of hiding the main villain? It's not working. Violence committed on himself, watching the series to the end, at a speed of 1.5x.
Moments when the viewer knows more heroes are not working on suspense, but on the suppression of interest (the viewer thinks “when will they, stupid ones, guess that”).
No character arches. Just not.
There is no alternative. Sit down and worry, as they say. Why not? Because you need to show in the advertising pause mayonnaise.
What were you shooting for? Why is there no respect for the material? Okay, I'll get back to drama.
There is no intrigue, no image of the future. No character motivations. False references to those whom we should have mistaken for villains are not allowed.
What is in the frame specifically:
- They talk about the dismemberment
They talk about cannibalism.
They behave like animals and animals.
They shoot at their entire movie (except for the last episode).
They betray their own.
The idea of Leningrad as the inhabitants of hell, “who came down to earth” and “the lowest of the people came out” is given.
Where is the honor and dignity of the characters? Where is the essence of the phenomenon called Leningradets? And most of the people who survived were still human.
It's not in the movie.
Society is shown as a society of scum and wolves.
I am am amused that people – producers, directors – are not ashamed to do this.
Do you think there are any images, details? Is it shown as the artery of life? Do you think there’s any part of the character here? Nope! Under the "Ladoga" you will be shown immediately a bare snow field. How do people enjoy the road and how did they find it or cope with difficulties? No, you haven't. We are the authors of modern dramaturgy, we read that everyone should “conflicht” and about the meaning we know nothing.
Or did the people of that time have the true meaning of the authors?
If the Germans think about the tragedy they have arranged, only in words.
What a wonderful job!
The operator just did his job in vain. The picture is serial, flat. Filling a flat, un-relief light, you can see everything - so the housewife doesn't soar. But why such a disregard for the housewife and disrespect for the material? You'd better keep filming more sea devils. What a work on the image, a dramatic expression of the inner world of the character! Oh, come on. Stupid to remove, stupid to mount - "and so it will go."
Actors. Serebriakov tries, but does not everywhere understand what he is doing there. Merzlikin also does not understand, and exploits himself as a type. Rappoport’s most inept role is the “famous actress” who simply does not understand that this is a movie, micro-emotions are needed – leaving the theater and getting used to the deliberate presentation, all this gives out in the form of thoughtless ohs and ahs. It's mediocre. I want to forget.
The only person who took the job seriously was a young guy who played the driver. 100% in time and in time! I don’t know what your name is, but I wish you creative victories.
Composer! It seems that he was shown a movie on an accelerated winding, and he pointed three places with his finger (!) and said “smoke something”, and he immediately sketched two (!) fingers on the synthesizer. I'm ashamed. It's a shame. Shame on those who have either cut their money or do not respect their profession. I'm like a spectator blushing for you.
Consultants, artists! I read a book about the Blockade about 20 years ago, and the first book reported that the cars had ONE headlight on so that they could be seen, but not attract fascists. My God, even they in the film show the chronicle, where they go with one headlight - and they film and turn on two headlights. It was so crazy to open and read at least one book. Laziness to look at the actual chronicle. Well, this is a rare case of such a frank thrash. When you don’t believe anything at all.
The inscriptions on the boxes are pasted with scotch tape (! Carl). The blood is gouache and ketchup. No direction, nothing.
I'll tell you why I can't put 1. Because that's a lot. But the movie search may consider it as some kind of hat, so I put
2 out of 10
Such films are really needed for the younger generation – for the memory of the war. I join many positive and not entirely positive reviews, but I would like to note that the viewer may be incompetent in matters of military equipment, special camouflage, etc., but the fact that on the surface – household cadres – lay an opinion on the general trend. And then, on the basis of such episodes in good films, young people develop a convinced “knowledge” of allegedly facts. Unfortunately, with all due respect to the work of the director, actors, etc., if the film is shot close to reality, then the director must understand that there will be an impression of every smallest stroke (for something it is shown by the director...?). At the beginning of the film, the “operator’s look” was detained on 2 sandwiches – generously, for wartime and during the most severe famine in the city, smeared with oil, from a military man, a higher-ranking leader, and Serebriakov greedily swallows hungry saliva. What's the touch, why? This is from the word “artistic”, but focused on documentary facts and ... start small (at first only sandwiches, a well-fed communicater, very energetic, next to the warehouse chief...)? Yes, starting with sandwiches – then films are made as “confirming” these facts, for example, the film 2018. Krasovsky's "Holiday" (the action is placed by the authors in a fictional suburb of the besieged Leningrad on New Year's Eve 1941). Well, do not forget, dear writers and directors, that young people, schoolchildren, as a rule, watch about the war, mainly not documentaries, but fiction!! And if you “drip” first in small doses, and then “bomb” the young brains with a whole movie (" Holiday), then how to explain to the young that soldiers and commanders went to death for the Motherland! Where is the school of filmmakers who understood the role of cinema? As, for example, her greatest director Tatiana Lioznova understood in her film “Seventeen Moments...” – every stroke, if possible, every frame was weighed for credibility!!
What you like. Magnificent just acting work of Alexei Serebryakov, Ksenia Rappoport, Andrey Merzlikin. A rather original theme for our cinema is “the road of life” through Lake Ladoga. And although the scale of the shown in the series "roads of life" is incommensurable with the real one, and quite deserves the name of a chamber, the general impression is still not spoiled. And frozen (winter 1941/1942) Ladoga (ancient Nevo) as always beautiful, even under a white fur coat. The horror of the siege of Leningrad is shown in a glimpse, a few broad strokes - but these episodes really catch the soul. Well twisted detective plot intrigue - the confrontation of Nazi saboteurs and Soviet counterintelligence. Walking on the ice, under fire, trucks with open doors, so that in the event of a car leaving under the ice, the driver would have a chance to escape. It's strong.
In general, I will immediately say that Ladoga was shot much better than the same Military Intelligence, and is not inferior to at least SMERSH. And I also remembered the old Soviet war film “Twice Born” and the recent Belarusian masterpiece “In August of the 44th”.
Now the questions come. First, when watching the series, there is a feeling that the writers squeezed out a rather specific attitude towards the Soviet Union. Hence the actual opposition of intelligence and counterintelligence. Army scouts know how to think, in general (and especially when it comes back), The NKVD think, it turns out, exclusively kulaks. No, I understand perfectly well that in a state of temporary time and with the threat of a large-scale sabotage on the “road of life”, Serebryakova’s hero (himself once repressed, and then returned to service) simply has neither time, nor desire, nor the opportunity for long psychological games with suspects. However, there is a trend. Well, at least he does not steal and is faithful to principles, merciless to enemies and thieves. I shall not doubt the possibility of the human organism exerting super-effort, which is later called a mere feat. But in the naivety of the officer left to follow the cache working for the Krauts saboteur - this is what I simply refuse to believe categorically. As well as in the fact that people could work peacefully at a strategic facility and move relatively freely, at one time the victims of the Soviet power were very not weak.
How much was the Abwehr officer’s phrase that they, the Germans, were merely “political opponents” of the Bolsheviks. But their agent has a personal account with the Reds. This is very close to the realities of the time. They were not just political opponents, and not just Bolsheviks. Archives who went to destroy our people almost to the root, fierce civilized barbarians, that's who they were. Which is very well shown in the film itself. A couple of episodes of German rational inhumanity, in comparison with which the methodical beating on the opposite side looks simply not serious.
And also very expressive was the main negative hero. And an agent name was chosen for him. Very well expressed his changed under the influence of hatred inner essence.
In short, in general, you can watch this series. You should. In memory of the survivors and victims of that terrible blockade. And those who defended Leningrad. Here I was looking at a convoy of trucks walking on the ice - and recalled a relatively recent report about a half-truck raised from the bottom of Ladoga. Eternal memory of those who died then. Eternal memory and eternal glory.
A few years ago, I asked a sophomore student, a future teacher, what was the Road of Life? But he knew nothing about her... That is why my attitude towards the series “Ladoga”, despite all its shortcomings, is still in the end unequivocally positive.
Mini-series on the near-blockade theme, filmed for the 70th anniversary of the complete lifting of the blockade of Leningrad. The blockade itself is shown in the picture only with short, but sharp and piercing strokes. The main story concerns the car brigade supplying food to the besieged city. Naturally, there is a love line, the line of an NKVD officer and the accompanying line of a spy-saboteur, which seems alien here.
+ Excellent cast seriously increases the lookability. Ksenia Rapoport and Andrei Merzlikin - super roles, full layout and implantation in the role. Alexei Serebriakov and Dmitry Nazarov also perfectly presented their characters. The actors take a rather average production to a higher level.
Quite a lot of tragic and really touching moments, horrors and hardships of war are shown quite authentically and heartwarmingly.
+ I liked the skipped script insert, a historical fact used here as an assistant for the plot branch, which probably no one even paid attention to. And I recently read an article in GEO about the Soviet scientist-botanist Nikolai Vavilov and actually created by him a plant bank of the world - the collection of the All-Russian Institute of Crop Production - a giant work he began in the 20-30s of the last century. So in the blockade, the staff of the collection heroically preserved the most valuable exhibits that could simply be eaten and not die of hunger.
From September 8, 1941, Leningrad was surrounded by a ring of blockade, communication with the country was interrupted. In the besieged city reigns terrible hunger, thousands of people die. And in the very center, on St. Isaac’s Square, several tons of products are stored – seeds, roots, fruits. Dried bean bags. Grain and nut containers. How do you protect this treasure?
Since their boss was taken away in the “black funnel”, the staff of the Institute of crop production heard nothing about him. Despite deadly hunger, bombing and frost, they store seeds, check their germination, sow for renewal. Day and night guard the building on Isaac Square. Crates of seeds are hung from the ceiling to prevent rats from reaching the city after people have eaten all the cats. They burn all wooden objects in the basements so that the potatoes do not freeze and disappear.
But hunger is stronger. The staff of the Institute is getting weaker every day. Disassembling almonds, right at the table dies keeper of peanuts and oilseeds Alexander Shchukin. Oat expert Lilia Rodina and Dmitry Ivanov, who managed to transport thousands of packages of rice to another warehouse, die of hunger. Colleagues are grieving and continue to work. Even on the verge of death, it does not occur to anyone to take the seeds for themselves. For all the blockade from the collection of the Institute will not be lost a single grain.
These exhibits are just that valuable special cargo, the transportation of which becomes a turning point in the series. And the mention of unusual potatoes is probably the fact that the creators of the TV movie are aware of this historical fact (sorry for the tautology).
- Unfortunately, the series has a lot of illogicalities and twitching, stamps and patterns, too linear and quite predictable plot. No, the villain is certainly not immediately calculated, but structurally everything is quite primitive, the obvious protrusion of clues and the presentation of villains exactly one per series, the detective component discredits itself.
In general, the series liked, conveys the atmosphere and emotions in the right range, the actors cope perfectly, but there are many roughnesses and crumbs of a cinematic nature, which somewhat spoil the overall impression.
7 out of 10
Alas, the Russian cinema has taught the viewer that the best films about the war have long been filmed, and therefore you can not try. Rare paintings transcend this bitter reality. These (already "fortunately") include "Ladoga", the burden of responsibility and expectations from which was only aggravated by the important date of this film was timed - "to the 70th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade." I do not think that there are many people in Russia who have never heard of the siege of Leningrad, and if there are, they are hardly worthy of attention. And this film is very worthy of attention.
If you dotted his merits, you get the following: acter game (the main trio (Ksenia Rappoport, Alexei Serebryakov, Andrey Merzlikin) + well-played secondary roles), interesting genre solution - detective, authenticity artistic (as opposed to the reliability of the historical, which, probably, if you want, you can find fault with), holistic atmosphere (like a piece of ice, cut out of the storyline, for the development of the series).
I am also pleasantly surprised that this story is alien to one-sidedness. There is no cardboard and far-fetchedness: only ours are right, and those who are not ours are wrong. Alas, they sinned against their own and ours. And the recognition of the main antihero in this sense horrifying:
I'll tear you all to pieces.
- The kids are there.
- Are my sisters 5 and 7 not children? I tried to feed them with the meat of the deceased father, but they still died of hunger!! I buried them behind the house. And then mother! And you are in the camps for the edge of bread.
A terrible thing is done here not from the fact of cannibalism, but from the fact of their violence against their own. Scary and confusing. He cannot understand and accept this maddened and sold to the German villain, just as he cannot understand that through his betrayal he will harm not the damned community, but innocent children, like his sisters. And forgetting this, he is compared to those whom he hates with every fiber of his soul.
When faced with such an insoluble conflict, with such a savage irreparable essence, with which it is impossible to agree, which cannot be changed, you always feel disgust at the structure of the world, at people who do all this with each other from age to age, and which there is no end and will not be.
In general, Ladoga is a film not only and not so much about the heroism of the city, which survived, did not give up, endured what it seems impossible to endure, but about those people who at the cost of their lives helped the city, who, carrying such important cargoes, paved the Road of Life, but for them it was every day the Road of Possible Death. And in this sense, their feat is great: not everyone, even purely physically, at the cellular level, is able to force himself to come under bullets and shells for the sake of his own, but such distant and almost strangers. I think that's what really helped our grandfathers in that war. This rare one is natural, and someone acquired (sometimes at gunpoint) the gift of sacrifice.
8 out of 10
P.S. It is good that we still make such films – serious, thoughtful, somewhere frightening and sobering, but interesting and important.
The almost nine-hundred-day siege of Leningrad is a difficult and stunning reality of the former war, which after it turned into a set of stamps, an ideologically polished picture. There are almost diametrically opposed views on the history of this event and interpretation. I can't judge them. But as a child, I found many more live blockaders who told about what they experienced without drawing, and as pioneers we were taken to the Flower on Rzhevka near the plate, where it is stamped: “The Savichevs died all.”
I liked the beginning, although the props overdone and the sham gets into the eyes. Further - more, and the plot begins to jump like a cheerful foal according to all the canons of a cheap detective. And most of all, I did not like the feeling of real mess and turmoil in the city, on the road, in Osinovets, in Kobon. One of the main things was remembered by everyone, who, despite the famine, shaking and barely changing their legs from hunger, but there was absolute order, unity and humanity in the city. After all, no tenfold police would never have been able to resist the rampart of sabotage, alarmists, skinners, who were and were enough in a million city.
The episode with a sparrow at the very beginning set in a quite reliable way, but further interspersed realistic episodes become random and not tied to place and logic, and their production is very sham. And the newsreel shots launched for great realism are strikingly different from the next film.
Even I, a person who is not connected with the war and history, do not understand why the structures on the ice are not disguised, not covered with snow, not painted white. Why is the anti-aircraft installation stationary on the car, when there was already a shortage of cars? Where is the order, the traffic control, the mechanism of the road? Where are the sailors of the legendary Ladoga military flotilla of the future Admiral Cherokov, who ensured the delivery of cargo on Ladoga until the ice, and after the protection and defense of the ice road? And in general, if there was such a mess and pioneer camp amateur activity, as in the film, it would hardly be possible to talk about the figures actually delivered to the starving city. By the time of the film, the Ladoga route for the delivery of goods had existed for several months and had already been organized and debugged, only the method had changed, not the ships, but first horse-drawn sleigh trains on barely rising ice, and then cars and even trains on the ice-frozen railway track - these are facts.
The ice road was really bombed, not a lone ranger frolic on a black Messer. Because there was an order from Hitler not to allow the supply of the city and the troops defending it. Therefore, they shelled and bombed caravans of ships from the shore, attacked ships with Italian and German crews specially delivered to the northern part of Lake Ladoga, attacked and bombed Cobona, Nova Ladoga, the entire Road of Life to the very Rzhevka as intensively as the besieged city itself. In the film, the main danger is called polynya from warm keys and currents. And then what was the whole detachment of ice reconnaissance and road layers doing?
A booer flickering in the frame. It's great to hear about the Burners. They were, and were, very few of them. Only here the boat and sail made an almost oppressive impression. One ex-buernik showed me as a child the skeleton of a buer with traces of fragments of shells, which really participated in the defense of the ice road, so this is a specific class of sports equipment that was used. This is a multi-seat design, where an anti-aircraft gun was placed with a calculation, so that this is not the sled with a rag that I saw. And the rinsing sail is in principle nonsense, the buer has no other propulsion engine except the wind.
I am silent that in November and December of the 41st not only severe frosts, but the city was covered with snow, snowdrifts to the second floor. But as it later turns out, a professional experienced scout like a cheap young filler sneaks after his ex-wife past a blind-deaf-mute policeman marching past him, this is normal, and then it turns out that he initially knows where she lives! That's great! I cry with joy... There is a lot of this in the movie.
For the first part of the film, for the diligence of famous good actors, for the topic raised, for being reminded of 9 out of 10 already forgotten in the flow and bustle. For the second part of the film, for the work of props, for the elaboration of the script and production volume, for the level of reliability and historicity of 1 out of 10. As a result,