Priklyucheniya Petrova i Vasechkina, obyknovennye i neveroyatnye (1983) (TV)

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Director:

Vladimir Alenikov

Writers:

Vladimir Alenikov (writer)
Valentin Gorlov (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Family | Musical

Plot Keywords:

Soviet Union | Singing | 1980s | School | Middle School

Cast

Yegor Druzhinin	...	Vasechkin
Dmitri Barkov	...	Petrov
Inga Ilm	...	Masha Startseva
Aleksei Gusev	...	Sidorov (as Alyosha Gusev)
Maksim Polyansky	...	Goroshko
Svetlana Protasenkova	...	Lyuda Yablochkina (as Sveta Protasenkova)
Andrei Kanevsky	...	Skvortsov
Konstantin Gavrilov	...	Cinema Group (as Kostya Gavrilov)
Yelena Delibash	...	Cinema Group (as Lena Delibash)
Mariya Butkova	...	Cinema Group (as Masha Butkova)
Sergei Babarykin	...	Cinema Group (as Seryozha Babarykin)
Timur Morozov	...	Cinema Group (as Timya Morozov)
Inna Alenikova	...	French teacher
Lyudmila Ivanova	...	Russian teacher
Tatyana Bozhok	...	Geography teacher

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color

Movie Connections:

References Beloe solntse pustyni (1970)

Very enjoyable for the whole Russian family

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

"Priklyucheniya Petrova i Vasechkina" is a movie about two buddies - two simple pupils (of the Soviet era) who are very funny. The movie has fine music and songs performed by children and nice background electronic soundtrack. The acting is very outspoken and frank. The movie itself consists of 2 large parts (each of them also contains several smaller ones). Each piece is a kind of short story. All the stories are linked together. Though, at first sight the film may seem very childish. it is a mistake to judge it like this, because it has some moral lessons to teach and more than a few witty jokes to consume.

I am ready to praise the sequel to this movie at any time - i.e. "Kanikuly Petrova i Vasechkina". That one is a No.1 movie for kids. No other movie for children will ever surpass its quality, I am sure (the sets, the characters, the tunes and songs are immortal). It is rather sad but I consider the great Russian cinema dead since the eighties. We should invest our money into agriculture during the following years, instead of frustrating tons of roubles making hundreds of tasteless films.

Watch out for a great spoof of our legendary action movie of 1970. The good old actor (you should have guessed already) is back in his genuine "Red Army" uniform. His ironic smile is there too.

Open your ears to hear a few memorable songs performed by the talented children who are in charge of the highly entertaining atmosphere of the film. Their "intrusion" into the fabric of the movie is quite nice and each performance looks like a music video. One of the finest songs is "the tram fantasy" at the very end of the first part of the movie. It has got strange words and a very dreamy feel about it.

Such films have magic, which is present in Mr Charlie Chaplin's works. Sometimes all the modern cinema samples must be kicked aside and one of such films is to be re-discovered in all its glory.

7 out of 10 (it's a very objective mark, while unlike its sequel, it is very deeply rooted into our former reality - the reality which we had in the USSR, otherwise it would be a solid 9). Thanks for attention.