This product cannot be called a complete work. Rather, a set of sketches based on Chekhov’s stories, connected more or less with an idea. What is very strange, because Anton Pavlovich in these notes expressed frankly can not invent and reproduce his idea for Soviet cinema and theater art, at that time, in my opinion, was at the height of opportunities, skill and talent, was not difficult. Here meanness and grief, malice and stupidity do not have a grotesque shade, as his satirical stories. And there is no "universal sadness" spilled over plays. Sadness is present, but it is concrete, not fleurovanna. It is a pity that the whole work did not work.
Although even – what turned out to be felt by the spinal cord to the chills – having made a turn, the spiral of society’s development returned to us with an even greater triumph of rudeness. And such a method of authors as "conversation" - an appeal directly to the viewer - helps to reveal the meanings laid down almost a hundred and a half years ago, and 35.
The result - something turned out great, somewhere, as they say, did not press. Chekhov and now "rules", and the Soviet film and theater school allows even clearly hasty production, and both semantic and plot not in the "top" of the time of shooting and the actual format - TV, to "pull" on the interest to look, without regret about the time spent, because the meanings and emotions are transmitted and perceived by the viewer, etc.
6 out of 10