Reviews of the film "Quiet Flows the Don" (2015)

The film "Quiet Flows the Don" is more than a masterpiece. This is a whole life, during which the worldview of the characters, their relationships, the desire to create and save is changing. If the director takes on the screen version of the work of the level of the novel-epic Mikhail Sholokhov, it is necessary at least to preserve all the authenticity and the main idea. If the scanned film is not inferior to the feeling born after reading the novel, it's safe to say that the movie was successful. Reviews of the film "Quiet Flows the Don" just can not be unambiguous. Many people and many opinions. But one thing is clear - this is an epoch-making picture.

About what will be discussed

The monumental work "Quiet Flows the Don" covers many events of the First World, October Revolution and Civil War. This, perhaps, is the most brutal, blood-drenched years of the great break on the Don. This is a difficult and terrible time when one brother goes to another brother. All human values are consigned to oblivion. The only eternal value for all time is love. Long, gentle, eternal love of the Don Cossack Grigory Melekhov and Aksinya Astakhova.

The plot of the work describes the history of the Cossack family of Melekhovs. A red thread in the novel shows the drama of the main character - Grigory Melekhov, his tragic love for Aksinya.

View from the inside

What can he do with himself, if he is not given to overcome his love for his neighbor? Yes, the picture can show any person from the outside, but only the viewer can immerse himself in the image "with his head." After all, it is on Grigory Melekhov that any self-respecting man should be equal. His family never knew hunger, even during the war. At the most terrible and dangerous moments Melekhov supported and encouraged everyone. At home, in the Cossack village, he is respected. The wife loves him, can not get enough of him. What is not enough for a quiet life?

He can not cross out his neighbor Grigory from the heart. "Quiet Don" is quite a serious work, which reveals the throwing of the main character. He thinks about the woman, even when bullets whistle over his head. How can one approach her and confess her feelings, because everyone can find out about it? Can a strong Cossack forget Aksinya and return to the family?

The most anticipated premiere of the year

One of the greatest works in Russian literature is the novel "Quiet Flows the Don" by Mikhail Sholokhov. This work brought him worldwide fame and love of readers.

Remembering the picture of the 50's Gerasimov, you should stop the attention and on the serial TV movie "Quiet Flows the Don" (directed by Sergei Ursulyak), who, without fearing excessive pathos, can be called the most anticipated premiere of the year.

For the fourth time, this novel is filmed. The first was filmed in 1930 - a silent film, Gerasimov reproduced his version of reading in 1957. And in 1992 his view of the work was shown by Sergei Bondarchuk in his last work. His son Fedor was already engaged in assembling.

Once in ten years

Director of the painting "Quiet Flows the Don" Ursulyak I am sure that such strong and large-scale works must necessarily be screened once in a decade. Then each next generation will be able to open it for themselves again. And to understand all the events taking place on the pages in a new way. And "Quiet Flows the Don" in 2015 is quite capable again of sparking interest in the novel, returning the book to the circle of discussion.

Spectator opinion

Reviews of the movie "Quiet Flows the Don" are mostly positive. A pretty good game of actors makes watching this story in one go. But here the place for filming is not very well chosen. Of course, this picture will involuntarily be compared with a well-known and beloved people film. And yet the creators managed to remove their own version, unlike the others. The film "Quiet Flows the Don" for 2015 release can be watched and necessary, at least because the game of actors is good to disgrace. Perhaps Makovetsky stands out a little from the general team, because even in makeup he is a pronounced Makovetsky.

Reviews of the film "Quiet Flows the Don" Are supportive of young actors. The only thing that spoils the impression is that it is difficult to name the fatal handsome actor who plays Grigory Melekhov. But the work of the actor Yevgeny Tkachuk looks quite dignified.

Gerasimov's reading

"Quiet Flows the Don" in 1958 is distinguished by the great tragedy of the life situation. Perhaps, because the director did not deviate much from the novel itself. But Sholokhov, using his incredible talent, managed to make the novel a real tragedy. Each of the heroes has its own destiny, its pain, its dreams.

The correspondence turned out to be accurate. Yes, and shooting pictures were carried out exactly in those places where there were real events of the Civil War. Reviews of the film "Quiet Flows the Don" by Gerasimov tell us that the author himself took part in the process of selecting the team. Practically from the first minutes of watching actors it is impossible to see - real real heroes of those years appear before the audience. Sergei Gerasimov, of course, succeeded all conceived. The film "Quiet Flows the Don" of 1958 release is so strong that it is easy to imbue with the atmosphere of Don Cossack life.

Sergey Ursulyak. The birth of a new masterpiece or an attempt to copy the old one?

To remove the fourth screen version of the "Quiet Don" the most authentic and truthful, the actors went for any sacrifice: men galloped on horseback in the saddle to the pain in their legs, and women learned to milk cows, which was also difficult. Sergei Makovetsky, who embodied on the screen the image of the senior Melekhov, even pierced his ear for real, because the sham ring did not want to stick. He daily put on for four hours a complex make-up. For the sake of art had to endure. And he also fought really, for the truth of what is happening.

Filming took place in the Rostov region. The actors left, filled with exclusively positive impressions. They remembered how hospitable were the local residents who constantly tried to treat the film crew with something delicious. We remembered how beautiful were the horseback walks in the neighborhood. By the way, the actor Yevgeny Tkachuk, who played the role of Grigory Melekhov, already has three horses. He dreams of founding a horse theater.

That's how they shot the Quiet Flows the Don. Ursulyak, the director of the picture, is sure that the audience will love his film the same way as in the past, in 1958, they gave their hearts to Sergei Gerasimov's painting.

How to approach reality?

The new "Quiet Flows the Don", which came out from the director's pen in the past, in 2015, tried to shoot so that it would be interesting for spectators of any age. To ensure that everything on the set corresponded to reality, they tried to recreate exactly the atmosphere that was here at the beginning of the twentieth century.

They were filming near the village of Veshenskaya in the Rostov region. This place was chosen because the events described in Sholokhov's novel took place on these lands.

Preparation took quite a long time. Only the scenery for the shooting was built about a year. All that without which it is impossible to imagine everyday life - beakers - glasses, cast-iron frying pans, chests, thimbles, curtains - were collected in small pieces in museums, from collectors, begged from local residents.

The new "Quiet Flows the Don" Perhaps, he claims to "overcome" the glory of the painting, shot more than half a century ago. After all, the actors even learned to speak correctly, walk, laugh, and be baptized. To the viewer did not regret the time spent watching the TV screen to watch this picture, to recreate the atmosphere, actors had to practically reincarnate in their characters. All members of the group had to take riding lessons, because the Cossacks without a horse, like ordinary people, for example, without hands.

To a very dangerous shooting can be attributed a fire, when Mikhail Koshevoy (actor Alexander Yatsenko) set fire to the village. They shot a real fire. The buildings were wooden, they were engaged in fire instantly, so it was not possible to shoot several takes.

That's how the film "Quiet Flows the Don" was made. The actors and the roles they performed were very convincing, truthful and sincere. The film of Sergei Ursulyak is still more connected with the state in which all people are very tired of military actions and strife, from the constant change of ideologies. It is unlikely that this film will be as beloved as the tape of Sergei Gerasimov, but the fact that he easily succeeded in surpassing all other versions of the film adaptation of the "Quiet Don" is beyond any doubt.