..A handful of village children stand by the wall of the ruined barn. They look at the "two folders" who have returned from the war in silence. There are hunched-over women around. And Nikolai Maximovich cannot recognize his little daughter among the children, and her "heart will not tell her" (as Vera hoped) which of the two is her father, unless it is better that he had two hands. And when people push their daughter Nadia and Nikolai Maksimovich together, the eyes of the other children will turn to Ivan Stepanovich, asking: "Uncle, whose are you?" They don't seem to know that there could be no scarier question for Uncle Vanya: he really is now, after the war, no one's, no village, no home, no relatives.
That's what the picture is about, first of all. About the immensity of grief and suffering accepted by the people in the war. About widows. About orphans. About the cripples. About lonely people, like a finger. About this never-healing wound of war.
The turn of the topic is modern, if only because it is being addressed with the acuteness of suffering that has not yet been experienced. For the authors, this is not yesterday, but today. Always today. It is not a familiar truth that has been established in consciousness, but a living, bleeding pain that has passed through human hearts. And this pain will be "listened to" here not in one, even the most vivid character, not in one human fate, but in many and in each at once — weighed, measured by the common fate of the Russian village that survived the war.
Human pain and anguish will not become an "episode" in the film, one of the "themes", it will not leave the screen like a "prologue": yes, they say, it happened, they reminded us, and now let's talk about something else. (About, say, how a new family was born to soldier Fyodor, about how the indomitable will of Yegor Trubnikov led to the rise of a poor collective farm.) No, it will turn out to be permanent, not replaced by anything else, it will stretch through the entire film, through the bright celebration of victory, it will last until the last frame — in the eyes of Vera and Yerofeyich, in the dark, wrinkled faces of lonely old women, mournfully lined up in front of a row of captured Germans. She is here an enduring moral folk dimension of the black misfortune that the war brought with it.
...In one of the opening scenes of the film, a meeting of collective farmers is shown choosing Nikolai Maksimovich as their chairman. A meeting with a known result in advance — remember the completely different intensity of such scenes in "The Chairman". Here, during appropriate speeches, you look at people's faces, begging for their shelter, listening only to how Uncle Vanya, inexperienced in oratory, gets into an intricate story with sewing needles.
But then, in a sharp montage transition, in some new breath that the picture suddenly takes, we see amazing shots of a village under construction. They feature dark spring water, women fishing with bows, the sound of axes, muscle tension, logs being rolled onto the rafters. Everything is nearby: water, ashes and the brightness of new log cabins, women, old people, children, pets, everything is under the open sky. This is a composition that carries the spirit of rebirth, permeated through and through. So, the whole Russian village was rising up again.
The theme of rebirth, uplift, and a leap to a new life, embodied in authentic folk scenes, will run through the whole picture. And it is important to understand and feel that this is not the background of a certain film story, but this story itself is its main thing; that the most important thing is the gradually increasing theme of rebirth, leading away from trouble and grief. The painting explores and measures some kind of primordial force inherent in the people. And therefore it reveals a certain primordial layer of people's life.
Two beginnings. Two leitmotifs. The immensity of the grief endured in terrible trials, and the irresistibility of the vital force, the power of overcoming, contained in the people. For the authors of the film, this is something inseparable, embraced at once, equal to the statement that in a year of disasters, the Russian land stood, stands and will stand. You sign up and deposit ৳500. With the promo code 1xbet for registration applied, you get a ৳500 bonus credited to your account. However, you’ll need to place wagers worth ৳2,500 in accumulator bets (at least 3 selections, 1.40 minimum odds) before withdrawing your bonus in real money. If you bet ৳500 on each of your accas, you need to place 5 such bets to hit your wagering goal within 30 days. It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose as long as you’re placing eligible bets within the stipulated time.
