On War shoot good movies. Why, the war shoot stunning movies, even now, when the shooting began, and the cruelty of everyday life on the screen. And TV series shot and shoot great, especially the Great Patriotic War, for making bad yet ashamed, and filmmakers have a lot of examples. Series of war should be at a high level, so that people want to watch them, can withstand the stress and feel the tragedy, which is an armed conflict between states or within the same country. "Drops of blood on a flowering heather" was to be such a show, but ...

Background of the story

"Drops of blood on a flowering heather" is a remake of the 2011 film "The alarm month veresen", staged on the novel. The first film adaptation of a model is not considered, and, obviously, the creators of the remake of it and not equal, because the show has avoided many of the shortcomings of the film, but to create their own interpretation of the roughness of the narrative and the representation of the events of the novel.

In the yard in 1944. The war still goes, but somewhere far away. Belarus freed from Nazi occupation, but now destroyed country came to Soviet soldiers, probing new orders. People still have nothing to eat and nowhere to live, they will not soon return to civilian life, the total bitterness and mutual hatred inflame conflicts when it seems necessary to unite and support each other.

The plot of the series

In his native land back presumptuous young Lieutenant Ivan, received at the front, wounded and sent to rest. Only here with the rest goes bobble on arrival Ivan understands that devastated villages rampant bandits who attack other people to feed themselves. Locals often protect them, as among those who trades in theft and murder, and have them close. City and despair lead people to go to extremes. The main character gets into the oppressive atmosphere of the post-war months when the overall defeat and anarchy reigns. He is trying to somehow cope with banditry, to establish life in the village and help people.

The series is different from both the first film adaptation, largely filled with ideological and educational elements, and from the book. Present Ivan arrives in Ukraine in order to lead a squad to combat Bandera. The scene shifted to the west - in Belarus, where the hero confronted former policemen, and they are not alone. The hero no longer appears before the audience, as the defender of the oppressed and wronged, he said, rather, boy, it is not clear how the remainder of the war with such an open kind heart.

What is the ambiguity?

The theme chosen for the show ambiguous. Too many questions, there are still about how people reacted Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania to the Soviet soldiers who replaced the fascist invaders, and how to treat the soldiers themselves to the civilians. It is in the series and the guerrilla movements that emerged as a confrontation of Soviet power. This is a painful question of the right to national independence, which is still not resolved and is unlikely in the near future, a controversial topic, lifting those aspects of the war, not dealt with in the history books.

There are deficiencies

The creators of the series, rearranging accents, were not allowed to the main thing: in this story can not be good or bad, everyone is right in his own way. The conflict is not resolved, the series shifted to the side of the main character, who seems to be should have his point of view on how to stay honest and decent person in those circumstances where he lives, but it remains behind the scenes. It seems that everything is going in the series "on top": a little hold on the culmination, to raise the issue and then leave him to roll up the subject of how it would be disclosed.

Thanks to these "Nedo", "Drops of blood on a flowering heather" are very lamentable spectacle of a length in six series. Starring actor Alex Ivan Bardukov, way young men with sad eyes almost perecherknuvshy success of the series. The veracity of such a character, supposedly survived the war, and behaving as a graduate of the military academy, the spectator believes hardly. Also starring in the TV series Igor Sklyar, Julia Peresild Maria Kulikova, Alexander Vorobiev, Mikhail Evlanov Sergei Koltakov Vera Kavalerov and many others. Even minor characters brilliant game does not save the series from the sadness and dullness, and all attempts to hold on to a high level of fail in the beginning. And on the screen, and outside there is only a sense of desolation.

Anna Chizh

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