We promise not to wash ourselves with fresh water for two months. "Women are women," said the mechanic after a pause. Their heart is like a well in the desert: no one knows that there is living water or a dead camel.
The surname of Viktor Viktorovich Konetsky, of course, is familiar to the audience, even if they do not suspect it: “The Striped Flight” (1961), “The Way to the Pier” (1962), “Thirty-three” (1965) – all these are his scripts created in collaboration with A. Kapler and G. Danelia. But the reading audience Victor Konetsky is familiar from stories and stories on marine themes, which he knew “from the inside”, because he went from fourth assistant captain to captain of long-distance navigation, having visited various areas of the World Ocean from the Arctic to the Antarctic. It has also passed the Northern Sea Route fourteen times! The story of the ferrying of vessels of the fishing fleet in difficult weather conditions “Tomorrow’s worries” was written in 1959-1960. Already in 1963, director Grigory Aronov and Budmir Metalnikov shot a picture with the same name. Unfortunately, it was not possible to watch this film - it is not on any resource, but there is hope that, thanks to the efforts of enthusiasts, one day it will be available to fans of old Soviet cinema. The film "Peregon" - the second adaptation. There is also a third – a four-part TV movie “Tomorrow’s worries” (2006), which I did not like the fact that in a sufficiently large volume of the written source, the scriptwriter added too much “semit”, greatly “modernizing” it, which lost the spirit of the mid-60s.
But the work of Oleg Ryabokon definitely fell to the heart. The fact that the picture was shot a quarter of a century after the events described, imposes a certain imprint of stylization “in antiquity”, but this does not interfere with viewing. Any screen adaptation always has one drawback – the inability to “squeeze” the entire text into the narrow frame of the picture. In addition, the director decided to limit the timing to only 64 minutes. This also greatly narrowed the plot, forcing it to move in places in jerks, leaving a fair share of the story to the speculations of the audience. The events shown in the film took place in 1955, and this is first of all necessary to remember when watching: "... it is not even believed that such babies will go to the Arctic Ocean in a long and difficult way - more than ten thousand kilometers, but everything can be done by Soviet sailors." And although the engines of small fishing seiners have only 80 horsepower. All this is the background of the picture, allowing you to plunge deeper into that era. The film has 3 main characters: Gleb Volnov (Alexander Mikhailichenko), Yakov Levin (Valentin Gaft) and Agnes (Marina Starykh). It is on them that the whole story rests, because the framework of the television film did not allow to remove a real sea epic about the fight against the elements. Some may think that the love line here is superfluous, but I do not think so. Both the story and the film are structured in such a way as to convey to the viewer the “subtle chemistry” of the relationship between the two sexes. Yakov Levin is married, he has children, while he considers the married Agnes his good friend. Gleb Volnov is 30, but he has never been married. Of the many months of swimming, only his mother is waiting for him. He has a long-established view of “all women,” and suddenly that view begins to change.
The film does not claim any philosophical depth. It's simple. Partly too straightforward in showing the actions of the heroes. But it’s like life: we rarely plan, prepare, think about our feelings. We often act impulsively. All the complexity and complexity of human relations, all this tangle of love, anxiety, apprehension, irritation, fatigue from each other, habit of each other, which is called family, rolled over her, and she sighed. This is how the characters behave, trying to dilute the “greyness of everyday life”, while at the same time reaching a new level of perception of the world, when yesterday’s values suddenly cease to be such, allowing you to see something new behind the monotony of everyday life. Something that could change your life forever.