Watched the film “For us with you.” The unpleasant truth about the USSR, which not everyone will like

The streaming services ivi and KION released the Russian film “For us with you”.

The film’s poster boasts an impressive cast and eminent director Andrei Smirnov, author of the famous Soviet hit Belorussky Station.

The novelty is dedicated to the Soviet postal time, and everyone should see it. Now I will explain why.

Welcome to our past

The script of the film is quite simple, the whole plot is packed into one sentence: an intelligent Soviet family is trying to survive at the end of the Stalin era.

What is the movie about: Moscow, 1952, mid-October, the 19th Congress of the CPSU has just ended. Communal apartment on Bolshaya Pirogovka. The Petkevich family lives in one of the rooms: Ariadna with her husband Boris and her parents, professor of philosophy Pavel Kazimirovich and his wife Angelina Fedorovna.

In the few months that remained before Stalin’s death, the family is going through a series of dramatic events. But against the backdrop of a terrible time, anti-Semitic sentiments, a fabricated “doctors’ case”, denunciations and informers, deceived people who live their lives without losing their honor and dignity.

Difficult twists of fate do not prevent our heroine from remaining a pure and sincere person and, in the end, unexpectedly, meet love.

From the very first minute, director and screenwriter Andrei Smirnov throws the audience into the harsh, merciless life of a simple Soviet family. Those who have never encountered communal apartments, the thoughts of the proletariat and Soviet dialogues will be shocked by what they see.

The post-war world is here most believable and creepy. Behind one slab of a communal apartment, we see completely different people – collective farmers without rights, disabled people, wars of representatives of the working class with the coverage of education classes and people representing the intelligentsia. All of them are shared with another device.

We are shown dialogues wolveswhere every man for himself.

In the first case, the story looks rather incoherent. The author does not focus on any suspicious hero. The reason lies in the fact that each of them has its own troubles. And I believe that no one leader will break out of this hell.

An endless anxious feeling, associated primarily with the actions of the authorities, leading to the continuation of nervous breakdowns in almost any person. None of them are mentally strong.

Someone breaks down in endless lines, someone splashes out emotions in a dance, someone fills the mind with alcohol.

Up to certain points in the film there is no overtly black and white. Only oppressive atmosphere of lies, fear and a gray mass of people who hate each other and just survive. Even in the intellectual family, we see squabbles and disputes.

And if they can still find a common language among themselves, then they treat the people around them with maximum contempt and arrogance. Even in the kitchen squabbling dialogues, there was only endless malice. By this, the heroes directly say that the psyche of the people is crippled, and it is hard to argue.

The film is maximally saturated with anti-Soviet rhetoric, while parallels with the present day are easily lined up here.

The era is well captured here.

Entourage is repeated very high quality. You believe, interiors, costumes. Excellent work of artists, do not stick.

The same can be said about acting. Here everyone wins back one hundred percent, whether they are such mastodons as Rozanova, Smolyakov and Rapport, as well as young stars Snigir and Kuznetsov, who managed to light up in major Hollywood blockbusters.

Among pointless philosophical musings about Hegel, discussions about Leninism and Marxism, endless everyday problems, you suddenly hear a hysterical question from the proletarians – “Why should I believe you, and not the newspaper Pravda?”.

You want to pause the movie and ask yourself, “Stop, we’re definitely watching right now. an uncomfortable movie about 1953?“.

A visceral, completely non-moving film envelops the viewers of this atmospheric poignant hopelessness. It turns out that either something severe is revealed later, and he does not have the early development of this child.

In the last 40 minutes, the authors exaggerate the most. Alexandra Kuznetsova looks, most likely, as a mockery and provocation. The final scene was published by these suspicions.

The denouement is interesting to itself, what will happen to the main character. Everyone will come up with an answer for themselves, and it is not so important whether it will be necessary.

Unfortunately, the picture is not captured by the tension, only the blackness, security officers and hopelessness. Under the final credits, the song “Bound in One Chain” by Nautilus Pompilius would ideally fit.

This is important, but very hard to perceive the movie

There might be a trailer here, but there isn’t.

We received an expectedly realistic film about our country’s past, which not everyone will like.

Someone will point to a sponsor in the person of Roman Abramovich, who is unlikely to just pay attention to specific projects. And someone can call the project Russophobic.

It is unlikely that the film will remain indifferent. He left a comment about today.