FILM FLASHMOB: "Friend" (1987)

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As soon as I read a subject of our flashmob, in the same second would understand about what movie I wrote … It was necessary only to decide.

This movie is extremely seldom shown on TV. It is impossible to come across it just like that on satellite television, and on ordinary TV and even less so. There was a time when I, without having then still the Internet, waited for it literally for years, studying an applet of television. And now I watch a minimum of times a year. It is one of the most beloved me movies. Can someone it will seem a little strange, considering a plot, but it so.

It is about the Soviet feature film by the director Leonid Kvanikhidze, 1987 of the release removed on a film studio Mosfilm with such simple, but very volume name "Friend".

For the first time I saw this movie in not full 12 years, right after its exit to "the blue screen". And … I do not know whether the word approaches this movie "fell in love", but in memory it to me sank down strong, there are even suspicions that already for the rest of life.


What caused this love? It is possible that the most talented game ingenious and deeply dear (and adored) me the actor who acted in a leading role - Sergey Shakurov who can play any role with ease: and the investigator and the masterly master Stradivari and the secretary general Leonid Brezhnev and here is how in this movie - the "terry" zapoyny drunkard Kolyun (Nikolay). By the way, for this role in 1988 Sergey Kayumovich Shakurov won the Prize for Best Actor at the All-Union Film Festival (AUFF).


The movie, of course, though it is also shot with participation of a doggie, not children's. And at all it would seem absurd and ridiculous situations in a plot - it is the drama. The drama with elements of a fantasy and even the tragicomedy.


And that: there lives such cheerful sociable and very resourceful person on light. And very much he well lives, well to the measures, of course - as usual. Life, I would tell, "is even "in full swing", only as throughout this introduction - "yes all on the head". He gets into situations ridiculous, but with ease and vital optimism gets out of them: even somewhere such resourcefulness and can envy.

And here the dog appears suddenly in his life. Big such, shaggy, black beautiful Newfoundland dog who is represented Another. Yes, here so also calls himself: "FRIEND".


By human voice and aloud. Sounds, by the way, the Newfoundland dog Yutgaya, the true friend of the person who acted in this leading role, one more my darling and the talented actor Vasily Livanov: our unsurpassed Sherlock Holmes.

The FRIEND to himself chose future friend. At him (an animal, a dog, a dog - here to call the FRIEND so even language does not turn because he is much more human, than his new "friend person" Kolyun chosen by it. I would even tell - picked up by him and bailed) is Aim at lives.


The FRIEND lives with a noble mission in heart, but not just "lives fast" as Kolyun - being afraid to glance in it more deeply, to rummage. Because then very much it unattractive appears … And it both is sick and terrible and just uncomfortable and it is unusual eventually. The FRIEND does everything to correct here such worthless life and to present chance to become the Person. And also the FRIEND studies life on the developing situations and asks questions, trying to understand them.


I will repeat: not the children's movie. But I after all would recommend it to viewing at teenage and youthful age. When the principles in the head when the young person begins to think also of life are formed including. For prevention, as an inoculation. That knew that there is other life in which because of own egoism, lack of will power, following to the addictions leading to a serious illness can lose not only everything "the most expensive" (c), and and human shape in general. And that avoided it in every way.

I think that anyway the movie will not leave anybody indifferent, and perhaps will even re-enter the list of darlings and reconsidered. Equally as will not pass "by ears" and the works by Alexander Rosenbaum which are so harmoniously entered in the movie. For example - "Waltz Boston" - that song which I sing since then and at that time when to me it is good at heart and when not really, since the beginning and up to the end accompanying all movie.
Well and to admire a beautiful, stately, well-mannered, clever, well-groomed dog is in general one great pleasure: