Wartime Children in the movie almanac "Horizon"
A teenager can learn a lot from the plot "Born from ashes" (script by A. Gastev, directed by Ya. Mirimov). The authors introduce us to the ruins of one of the famous Old Russian Novgorod temples destroyed by the Nazis during the invasion, show the most difficult restoration work carried out by artists, architects, art historians. And behind this hard work of restorers, restoring the temple and the frescoes of the XIV century that decorated it, as if between the lines, the main theme is read — admiration for work, dedication to their work, the Motherland, respect for the shrines of the people. Only one frame in this story — with a horse harnessed to a cart, on which the crumbs of the collected remains of unique frescoes lie, — an everyday frame against the background of the familiar expanse of the Central Russian landscape, speaks to the soul, open to poetry and beauty, more than other scientific treatises.
"Born from ashes" is close to the subject of the plot of another almanac — "The Tenth Chapter" (script by N. Loseva, E. Reina, director M. Tavrog), telling about a remarkable find of literary critics — one sheet of the encrypted Pushkin manuscript, about painstaking research, as a result of which excerpts from the tenth chapter of "Eugene Onegin" were deciphered, considered destroyed.
It is well known that the range of interests and hobbies of young people is almost limitless — riddles and achievements of science, technology, culture, art, travel, adventure, science fiction, sports, moral and ethical problems — and it is quite natural that the movie almanac to some extent should correspond to the diversity of spiritual needs of the young viewer. Unfortunately, moral and ethical issues are one of the weakest sections in the almanac. Although journalistic essays devoted to them regularly appear on its pages, their level — both in the formulation of questions and in the qualitative, cinematic aspect leaves much to be desired.
Perhaps the only successful example of such a journalistic experience is the plot "On the Alley of Heroes" (directed by A. Sergeev), where a good tradition of the pioneer organization of Volgograd is modestly and tactfully shown. Here, the best schoolchildren, the most worthy, are highly honored to keep watch in the guard of honor at the eternal flame, where the ashes of the heroes who participated in the Battle of Stalingrad rest.
The authors of the plot deliberately do without announcer accompaniment, and therefore the frames gain special power" in which we hear the synchronous speech of the guys taking the oath for the only time: "I swear to be worthy of the memory of the dead until the end of my days... I swear to guard their peace steadfastly..."
We see the faces of teenagers — we feel the purity, the immediacy of their feelings, emotional excitement and impulse when we hear an echo sounding like: "I swear!.."
The plot "Our Ninth" (scriptwriter and director B. Goldenblank) is an unsuccessful, inarticulate — both in the idea and in the means of its implementation — an attempt to combine documentary sketches from the lives of ordinary school class children with recordings of their statements on the meaning of life, their dreams, their relationship with each other and teachers. Unfortunately, the screen turned out to be a strange mixture of cheerful optimism, sentimentality, unnaturalness, "acting", false significance.
The plot of "Children and War" (script by N. Loseva, directed by B. Goldenblank) is not at the level of the journalistic tasks of the almanac. Only two episodes really meet the task set in this film. These are shots related to the siege of Leningrad (evacuation of children, children's drawings of that time), and shots of awarding young fighters. They are essentially and in form connected with the main theme, and the war appears in them as seen through the eyes of children. Strong episodes, but they take only thirty to forty meters. And in general, the whole film boils down to the fact that under the textbook chronicle shots, a text is laid out, conducted as if on behalf of the children of the war. can people hack in fortnite
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