War miniature A very small, but very expressive short film, spun off (if I may say so) from the main work of K. Shakhnazarov in 2012 “White Tiger”.
The time, place of action and the main character of the miniature "In the Surrounding", which has the subtitle "Memories of a tankman" - the same as in the full-length picture - the summer of 1944, the battles near Vitebsk, the mechanic-driver of the T-34 Naidenov (Alexey Vertkov).
In fact, "Surrounded" is an alternative version of the plot of "White Tiger". The option, in fact, just more plausible, and in general, really took place. Naydenov here is not a “breed of war”, not a mutant, not clear where he came from, but quite a normal person who can be injured, and probably even killed. The situation is as follows: the thirty-four, who participated in the defeat of the surrounded German troops and escaped far ahead of the bulk of our tanks, was hit by an air bomb, Naydenov was wounded in the leg; together with the loader of the tank (Egor Baranovsky), two tankmen (the third crew member was killed by an air bomb) are inside the German boiler, they need to go to their own. That’s what happens – surrounded by surrounded Germans.
In the story told by a real tanker, I have no doubt. But the director, bringing the real story to the screen, again, as in “White Tiger”, could not avoid technical inaccuracies. For example, it is completely unclear what the shooter-radio operator, sitting in the tank in front, suffered from, because the explosion occurred from behind, in the engine part of the car. The same question is reasonable in relation to the main character, but he, judging by the appearance of the wound, has a shrapnel wound. And the most important thing is that the tankers are in a hurry to move away from the tank as quickly as possible - which is right, because the tank is burning, ammunition can burst at any minute - but at the same time they run away from the burning car not by 30-40 meters, but only by 5! Well, there are a couple of oddities, which I still will not talk about, because they partially reveal the plot.
In general, despite the traditional shortcomings in terms of matchmaking ("White Tiger) for the director, I liked K. Shakhnazarov’s miniature. A fairly simple and unpretentious case of war is one of many thousands, thanks to which the Victory was forged in the aggregate.
8 out of 10
