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"Tanks" at the MMKF ... arrived. The premiere of the new film from the creators of "28 Panfilovites"

You have not seen this for a long time. And here again. The new historical and patriotic “hit” with the working name “See Stalin” Kim Druzhinin is the basis of the run of two T-34 experimental tanks Mikhail Koshkin from Kharkov to Moscow in order to demonstrate their power, which means the need to produce new tanks to win the USSR in the Great Patriotic War.

In fact, “tanks” are ideal from the point of view of the Ministry of Militia: a propaganda blockbuster. The film was created on the initiative of the minister. He was immediately given a green light. Vladimir Medinsky himself visited the shooting, remembering his profession of a PR man, explained to reporters that the script attracts attention with the reliability of the plot and the choice of characters:

“Seeing Stalin” is the right Russian cinema ... The film script interested us precisely because nothing was invented in it. The episode of Koshkin’s meeting with Stalin really was. ”

At the same time, the authors thought about the viewer and promised an adventure action with fiction. Well, they also composed in the cinema. Tarantino won in “inglorious bastards” completed the Second World War in the cinema, and Hitler killed the sergeant “Jew-Meduche”.

After an outsiddened war on Khalkhin-Gol, the country wants to arrange itself with new tanks-on a caterpillar. So that the armor is strong and fast, they did not mel in the bead. “I don’t know how much I have to fight, but the Red Army has more than one war ahead,” the red commander with the Red Star and the Order of Lenin on his chest is perspicive. And there is such a tank! But an order comes to the plant: experimental tanks to a solemn review on Red Square without preliminary tests to prevent, do not load on the platforms! Then the outstanding designer Mikhail Ilyich Koshkin (Andrei Merzlikin really looks like his hero) overshadows a happy idea: you can’t load it-you can. Personally, Zhukov allowed - he even reported to Comrade Stalin.

Road Muy begins. Two secret samples move through the country - Kharkov, Belgorod, Kursk, Oryol. Tula. They go: Koshkin himself, a pretty, but strict specialty, two drivers and a sweet, although the wayward girl Kataeva, who knows everything about the hardening mode.

The specialtyist is at first harmful: he wants a wonderful, but wayward Kataev to shoot, then falls in love with it. And it is prettier before our eyes.

The review was appointed on April 17, 1940. If 200 km per day, they will have time to demonstrate new Soviet equipment. This is if without adventure. But since the film is addressed to the young generation, adventure is the main dish for a teenager.

The enemies of the people and saboteurs are teeming in an alarming pre -war time. At first, an invisible enemy unscrews the nut on a gas cylinder, then a group of German saboteurs in various ways tries to destroy the T-34. Then a gang of “ilter”, who sowed in the forests in the center of the country, will attack the “runs”.

(It turns out that they live in their forest wagons at an abandoned station since the civil war, twenty years, and no NKVD does not care about them?)

The bandits capture the cars themselves, thinking that these are tractors (this is humor), and their creator - the legendary Mikhail Koshkin. But when the external enemy-the elegant “German saboteurs” on horses, such as European tourists-will attack, all of ours will unite, and one shot of a miracle tank of a common enemy will defeat, and the bandits will also drink cars with scarce fuel.

The fascist commander decides at all costs to prevent the best of tanks to Moscow: “They must disappear! - he orders larynarly, and pronounces the key team: "Activate Schulz!" And now, on Russian roads, black motorzobi, led by a leather agent-bomb. Apparently, the Schulz Killer does not have a manager .. but not our valiant designers on their space machines.

Tanks go to trumpet heroic music through dirt, off -road. Koshkin right in the cockpit, something urgently rules in the drawings. The mileage is a test. Drivers are gambling guys: even races are arranged across the field: “You're lying, Michal Ilyich, you won’t take it.” Koshkin himself knows: "We cannot win without these tanks." And around the landscapes are not clear: meadows, fields, copses. Russia. On Red Square, Comrade Stalin himself awaits them. And the epoch -making meeting of the Generalissimo with the "swallow of our armored forces" will be held (Medinsky’s rights, in real life it was). 700 km of roadway, 7 days, almost combat trials behind. Hooray, comrades! The USSR receives a strategic advantage. In a future war.

Here the final “march of Soviet tankers” sounds: “Growing fire, sparkling brilliantly / will go on a fierce campaign, / when comrade Stalin will send us into battle ...

About the arrested and executed NKVD designers in the film not a word. The fact that Koshkin, having performed this incredible heroic run (early snowy March, and not in the summer, like in a movie), fell ill with pneumonia, which later served as the cause of his death, even in the credits was not said.

But the words of the final song will be remembered for a long time: "Let the enemy who took off in an ambush, / We follow the enemy, remember."

The authors of “28 Panfilovites” worked on the film about the tanks-director Kim Druzhinin and producers Oleg Antipov and Dmitry Shcherbanov under the supervision of the Russian Military Historical Society. The RVIO handed the creators of the Holy Legend about Panfilovtsy a reward “For Fidelity of Historical Pravda” (Sorezhiser Druzhinin Andrei Schalopa). Other historians talked about the operation in the film of myth -making. But with all the stretches, ideological cliches, weak scenarios - in that picture there was at least a professionally shot battle.

The snow exploded with a black earthen cloud, tanks blazed, burning tankers jumped out of the vent and fired from the enemy. The developer of the most popular War Thunder online game (“Blood of the War”), Gaijin Entertainment, joined the creation of the film, providing financial and technical support.

There is nothing of the kind in the Tanks. There is an infantile, not supported profession, the desire to make a dashing tape in the spirit of “courageous people” or “fiery miles” - on the one hand, and “crazy Max”, on the other.

They wanted a spectacular “film”, they received a stupid children's war, in which Fritz - morons, battles - toy, and snow -white Russian birches cannot be destroyed by enemy guns. They wanted an adventure in the spirit of old cinema, they received a clumsy tasteless propaganda craft in the spirit of “tankers”, created a year before Koshkin’s run.

In that film, the brutal “Supreme Ruler”, German General Buller, begins the operation to seize a large section of Soviet territory and destroy the city of Krasnoarmeysk. But the brave Soviet tanks, crossing the river through an impenetrable cliff, force the Germans to surrender.

They wrote about the “tankers” without jokes: “The film is a propaganda picture showing the possibility of Soviet tanks and armored parties, which discusses the scenario of a possible war.” Similar paintings were then filmed massively, they raised the spirit of warriors and promised a short and easy war.

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The most memorable domestic films about tankers.

“A guy from our city” (the hero of Nikolai Kryuchkov on a light tank jumps over the river and calls everyone to heroism).

“Tractorists” (the hero of Nikolai Kryuchkov is transplanted from the tank to the tractor, but in peaceful life he recalls military heroism), and the audience along with the screen sings a spiritual song about three tankers - the crew of the combat vehicle.

“In war, like in war” is one of the best Soviet films. The young commander runs ahead of the tank, and almost by chance the fighters beat three “tigers”.

“Klim Voroshilov-2 tank about the feat of yesterday’s cadet, who discovered the heavy tank“ KV-2 ”. He leads him to a combat -ready state and does not let the Germans into the city. And then he blows himself up.

"White Tiger." A charred tanker who has lost his memory is trying to discover the fascist “tiger”, who is either the fruit of his sick imagination, or a mystical monster.

The first spectators of the 28 Panfilovs were Vladimir Putin and Nursultan Nazarbayev. The first spectators of the “Tanks” are Russian military personnel at the Khmeimim air base in Syria. The show took place three weeks before the official premiere.