Soviet adventure comedy film based on Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

1968 film by Vladimir Yanchev

這部影片改編自蕭洛霍夫的兩篇小說『The Shibalok Seed'、『Birth-mark'。1920年俄羅斯發生內戰。因為親人之間政治信念的不同，經常發生兄弟鬩牆、父子相殘的局面，最終導致家庭的崩解，一位槍手（由俄國著名的演員Yevgheny Leonov所扮演）愛上一個和自己理念不同的女人Darya。
劇情發生在1920年蘇聯早期內戰時期，一隊哈薩克騎兵隊沿著頓河追擊反革命軍隊，他們在村莊中發現一名女子，她曾和白軍一起如今卻被拋下，可憐她的主角決定將她帶在身邊，但這名女子卻在隊伍裡賣弄風騷，他看在眼裡好不難過。日久女子終於發現了主角的好，最後兩人在一起，她也懷了孕。一日騎兵隊遭到反革命軍的突擊，潰不成軍，主角逃過一劫，女子卻向他坦白是她去向敵軍告的密，她希望兩人能離開軍隊一起安居生活。但面對死傷的同袍，以及看著指揮官嚥下了最後一口氣，主角無論如何也無法原諒他心愛女人的行為。就在他決心痛下殺手之際，女人卻即將臨盆....

We pick up the story on our main character's bus ride home. He sits alone, looking content, trying to pass the time. Then, something seems to get in his eye, because he rubs it and then closes the buses window. Something changes about him. He looks around and feels a strange disgust in the bus filled with quiet strangers also trying to get home and minding their own business. Pavel-Ivanovich is so disgusted that he gets off the bus several stops before his home and walks, arriving at dark. From here his story begins, and we go along for his sad ride. From that evening on he sees only sadness and wrong in everything. He can't respond to kindness, and scolds those closest to him. He offends everyone. At his work he tries to go against as many people as possible, and hurt ordinary citizens too. He also feels that everyone is against him. His condition seems to worsen. How will all this end. Sure this can't be the end for Pavel-Ivanovich, a good man somewhere deep inside.
The brilliance of this film lies in the main character's deep state of mind. His suffering. The fact that he hurts everyone around him, feels horrible about it but still does it until he almost loses everything. If you like film's where you feel that you can relate or feel the character's emotions, you might like this film. An incredible pressure is built up throughout the film, and the last scene, for me at least, magically lifts it, if only for a couple of seconds.
This is a strange film, and I don't say that a lot. It is very hard to describe, but the main elements that drive the feel of this film are the main character's state of mind and the music (more than half of the film has incredible original music playing in the background). Daneliya's films have incredible music like in Autumn Marathon, Kin-Dza-Dza, and Thirty-Three. Daneliyaa was into jazz and played drums in a band way back before he started making film so his films are very rich in music. Also this film is sad, but is also a comedy. All these elements mix to make an incredible movie

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