Historical drama. The first film adaptation of the play "Kremlin Chimes" (there were also film adaptations in 1967 and 1970) by Soviet screenwriter and playwright Nikolai Pogodin. And since the author of this review is not familiar with the original source, he will evaluate the film adaptation as an independent work. He came across this painting absolutely by accident, because even its name was unknown to the author. And the viewing left a very pleasant impression. And here's a brief opinion - An excellent historical drama about GOELRO. No flaws could be found in the picture, except that a certain stereotyping of the characters slips through and the grandiloquence of the speeches, but this is a patriotic picture where it is appropriate, so it should not be considered a disadvantage. Therefore, we should focus on the advantages of this painting.
So, here they are:
1. The script - the script is based on several lines, but the main one belongs to Alexander Rybakov, a hero of the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War, who tells his son about his youth. How he was the commander of a detachment of sailors, how he defended Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, how he found the love of his life, and how he contributed to the implementation of a grandiose project, the GOELRO plan (electrification of the entire Soviet country, and in the face of the devastation of the ending Civil War). In addition to Alexander Rybakov, we will learn the story of engineer Zabelin, the circumstances of the visit to Russia by the famous English writer H. G. Wells, the work of Lenin, Stalin, Dzerzhinsky and Gleb Krzhizhanovsky- one of the creators of the GOELRO plan. We will see almost all the classes of Soviet Russia in 1920, and this contrast is very noticeable. The screen already reeks of the devastation and difficult state of Soviet Russia, which has just managed to fend off the interventionists and defeat the White Guard spawn. And now we need to build a New Russia, a socialist One, the first in the world. And it's not an easy task, because there are enemies both outside and inside. The characters are well written, the dialogues are deft, so you won't get bored, and the timing doesn't allow it (one hour and nine minutes). The finale is filled with happiness and bright hopes for the future, which is good news!
2. The atmosphere - in order not to spread for a long time, it should be said that it is excellent. The costumes, music, and decorations all scream about 1920, when the Russian people, under the leadership of the Red Security Council, began to build Soviet Russia, which in years to come would be talked about all over the world, and in a little over twenty years, it would become the second superpower on which the fate of the entire world would depend.
3. Actors - Mikhail Gelovani as Stalin, Nikolai Kryuchkov as Alexander Rybakov, Nikolai Kolesnikov as Lenin, Nikolai Okhlopkov as Zabelin, Vasily Markov as Dzerzhinsky, Boris Livanov as Mayakovsky and so on. This is the color of the Soviet acting ensemble, from which it is shameless to take an example to modern actors (if they can be called that, of course). They all did a great job with the roles, so the picture looks great.
Yes, the dialogues and monologues are somewhat grandiloquent, and there are hints of the slogans of those years, but the emphasis here is mainly on people, both ordinary workers who returned from the fields of the civil war, and the Bolsheviks, who have a lot of work ahead of them, which has no analogues and has never been before. After watching it, it feels good that such people were our ancestors and that they coped with such tasks. They have a lot to learn from!
A 10 out of 10 rating and a recommendation for viewing!
