Good luck, gentlemen [Udachi vam, gospoda], 1992

Good luck, gentlemen | Udachi vam, gospoda

Year		1992
Country		Russia
Director		Vladimir Bortko
Screenwriter		Arkadij Inin Vladimir Bortko Nataliya Bortko
Producer		Nataliya Bortko Aleksandr Golutva
Operator		Vladimir Kovzel'
Composer		Vladimir Dashkevich
Artist		Marksen Gauhman-Sverdlov
Genre		Drama [play] Comedy
Premiere date (Russia)		March, 1993
Duration		102 min. / 01:42
Actors		Nikolaj Karachencov Urij Dedovich Andrejs Zhagars Vladimir Bortko Urij Kuznecov Dar'ya Mihajlova Tat'yana Agafonova Viktor Pavlov Valentina Kovel' Viktor Stepanov
Rating		6.70 / 10 [votes: 138]
IMDB Rating		4.70 / 10 [votes: 23]

The former "Afghans" - a major and a captain, who refused to support the coup, have decided to stay in the forest and did not return to Leningrad. They had to survive by relying on their own strength and ingenuity: the Roma entertain foreigners, participated in the filming dushmanskih movies, started trading balloons Mayor ... even tried to become a broker. Having met a wonderful girl, both fighters fell in love with her, and to earn money for his beloved decided to participate in a beauty contest. But not so easy to pick up win cash prizes without the racketeers.

Review

Great! Says Roger Ibert: "Two thumbs up!" 

Of all the film is based on the scenario A. Yining, this film, I think his best work. Although to me, of course, disagree adorers "Once 20 years" or "Offered for Singles."

However, all very cheerfully, funny and touching, sometimes to tears. At the junction of the two eras, probably already on the third attempt (after the "Operation Cooperation" and "Deribasovskaya") Yining, finally came up with a miracle that the history of how people had to shift to the new circumstances of the time and go after all the troubles have not lost their own dignity . 

In general, if you see where (and this is very difficult), be sure to see and admire!

One hundred days before the order [Sto dnej do prikaza], 1990

One hundred days before the order | Sto dnej do prikaza

Year		1990
Country		Russia
Director		Husejn Erkenov
Screenwriter		Vladimir Holodov Urij Polyakov
Producer		Aleksandr Zosimenko
Operator		Vladislav Men'shikov
Artist		Sergej Filenko Sergej Serebrennikov Nina Chernyshova
Editor		Galina Dmitrieva Vladimir Portnov
Genre		Drama [play] War film [military]
Premiere date (world)		February 1, 1991
Duration		71 min. / 01:11
Actors		Vladimir Zamanskij Armen Dzhigarhanyan Oleg Vasil'kov Roman Grekov Valerij Troshin Aleksandr Chislov Mihail Solomatin Sergej Romancev Sergej Bystrickij Elena Kondulajnen
Rating		4.69 / 10 [votes: 178]
IMDB Rating		5.70 / 10 [votes: 202]

Story by Yuri Polyakov, which formed the basis of the script, one of the first in the domestic literature for the first time to illuminate the social problems of military service.

Review

At first glance, the film Husain Erkenov "One hundred days before the order" may seem completely apathetic recruitment featureless with a weak formulation. The fact that an outsider like it is unlikely, even less will like to serve in the army, and considered this period is very important stage in life. Like he could very narrow audience, mostly those who served and took the army as the biggest ass, which only can please people. Assess bias, personally I can not, and I think this film the most honest picture about the army, but because, as in any normal Russian part - meaning here. But it is so, and should be a movie to one hour to demonstrate all that gloomy palette of feelings, when you realize that they are in a place that does not have to be. Just a collection of scenes from various negative manifestations of military life, passed through the prism of the flying from the coils of consciousness. Slowness of some scenes finally turns all the established system of the absurd, senseless and merciless, where people are fighting for some unknown reason, are constantly being built, do something and ... die. Die, of course, not in the literal sense - discouraged that, in those circumstances in which there are characters of the film leads to a clouding of reason, fortunately, easily reversible, however, as a result, one can make some things with which to be reckoned. It is from this state are obtained suicide, autopsy revealing veins and sometimes shoots a hundred days to order, and these actions can not be explained, but watching this movie, you can feel if it is of course necessary.

A screen adaptation of the famous novel by Yuri Polyakov came 10 years later, after writing the book, and only 3 years old - with its output (censorship!), of course, it is claimed, and the relevance and topicality of the source. The book is famous because it was the first work that lays bare the problems of a modern army, in particular, hazing, had not attached by the mass public, and causing problems with the censors. Given the fact that in the 90's in Russian cinema was too little eroticism, Elena Kondulaynen subsequently and glorify a bit part in the film, but the fact that the army drove off the coils fantasy soldier becomes a sex symbol of the national cinema, says more about in what were appalling state it is the film in the early 90's. Therefore, the movie currently has an exotic representative early Russian cinema, which is still the Soviet, but from which one can already see that the Union is falling apart, and the ruins of his future is already building a nest grim reality of the 90th, where the "studio of children's and youth films" will no longer be children and youth films.

Outcome: Operational psychological arthouse about negative impressions of the military service, to see that there are very few reasons, the main of which are: to remember what this stuff did your army.