And we are on a toy train to the blue mountains

On New Year's Eve - December 22 - the film screen Alexander Cotta “Chuk and Huck. Big Adventure "

Placed by Santa Claus, pink, a little toy variation on the topic of the story of Arkady Gaidar for "middle school age", which the older generation knows by heart, and the youngest does not know about him or about Gaidar.

“There lived a man in the forest near the blue mountains. He worked a lot, and the work was not reduced, and he could not go home on vacation. ” Such a measured fairy -tale instinct of the Gaidar story.

In the film version of Papa Geologist near the blue mountains (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), the role is very small. But mother Chuk and Huck (Julia Snigir) have a big-big role. Mom, for example, is not only caring, but also sings very well and even performs on stage with the cheerful vocalism of Trololo. Almost like Edward Hil, who will sing this vocalise of Arkady Ostrovsky in half a century. But for a magical story, is it important?

Alexander Cott and operators (Peter Dukhovskaya and Grigory Yablhenikov) are trying to make a tube, in winter, warming the cinema in winter with a thousand details of the past era in the frame: an iron calendar, a glass in a melchionic dummy on a lace tablecloth, a home-made airplane, old matchboxes, old newspapers, flying from the wardrobe, in the wardrobe, into The corridors of the communal apartment can be played in football or ride a great.

And Dad Chuk and Huck, not at any faceless station, works. Moreover, not in some worthless settlement, where he would hide from repressions-how the long-term business trip of the book geologist Seregin and the inability to return to Moscow, some vulgar critics were interpreted. Not at all, geologist Seregin works at the Station "Happiness-1". What does it mean: there is somewhere there, in the depths of Siberian ores, and happiness-two, a hundred, a thousand different ruddy happiness ...

The age difference between the literary brothers-pages in the cinema was greatly increased. Now Chuku is five, heku is ten.

Chuk is a naive and dreamy, with a rich imagination guy. In many ways, it is a plot engine, although the hek will burn the telegram. But in the imagination of a little Chuk, the horse turns into a terrible bear, a passenger from another compartment-into a night werewolf, and his favorite toys will become his rescuers and guardian angels.

Huck still tried to sniff him: why filled the suitcase with toys - do not take them on a trip ... stupid. Chuk knows better than adults that in the snowy world they will be saved by a smiling hare with a drum, and a red-haired carrier with a red flag, and mother’s beloved doll from a Christmas tree, and a wooden truck will illuminate the path in a dark off-road. But the Chuk of Dreams is especially warming, in which dad appears to be a revived figure in the Stakhanovts from the metro station "Revolution Square". And mom is a sparkling mistress of the Copper Mountain from Bazhov’s fairy tale. And what is surprising: mom reads this fairy tale before the trip, and dad really searches for the magic stone of molybdenum.

Huck is similar to Geklberry Finn, whom Gaidar loved so much. And although hek is not an American orphan, but a Soviet pioneer who does not remove a red tie - he is as unpredictable, resourceful and decisive as his American brother.

And most importantly, he always saves and finds Chuk. Sometimes even more often than we would like.

Boys exist on the screen wonderful, even on the largest plans or in the strangest circumstances, remaining reliable. Chuk Andrei Andreev is an adult baby with a very serious attitude to peace and magic. He laughs and cries, and believes in miracles with the whole responsibility of his open heart and open eyes.

Hek Yuri Stepanov Jr. is just some incredible reincarnation of a wonderful actor, Fomenovtsa Yuri Stepanov-in childhood.

And the features, and the smile, and the attentive look of deeply planted eyes, and some kind of mischief, and not only rivalry, but also a patronizing attitude to the younger brother.

Microscopic, but memorable tiny episodes of large actors, it seems, have become pure pleasure for them. The self -confident fat man of Roman Madyanov sits at his mother’s concert right on a small iron horseman with a red flag - Talisman Chuk. The test is not for the faint of heart. The neighbor Natalya Kolyakanova will try to loud the shaved boys, and will hang upside down. A fellow traveler on a train - Timofey Tribunetsev with a Budyonny mustache, only curled, lets the smoke from his ears like Fakir Hotabych. Very beautiful. The port-port neighbor measures on the school globe their future distant path with its centimeter ribbon. And it turns out that they have only three days to go with a tail. True, this tail turns into a long, long journey.

The journey is in many ways a game and a fairy tale. Therefore, a real train turns into a toy and travels on a map past toy Christmas trees, and mom, along with her brave boys, wanders not so much in deep white snow and slippery ice, but also on the old map. And toys help the brave and resourceful Chuk, as in a famous fairy tale about a girl and a woman-yaga, a crest helped the girl, turning into the forest, then a towel, turning around.

A special article is a saving mission of Chuk toys. This is not slipping out of the shadows fantastic creatures of the salamander -

It is that rag, iron, wooden toys of a model of the thirties. With a heroic bamber hare, who sacrifices himself for the sake of a boy. With a truck, not frightened of snow -covered thickets. The authors best manage magic, which arises from children's imagination and which in this fabulously white forest is appropriate as well as pairs from the mouth in the cold.

In the middle, the script gets in a circular motion, fails, confuses “in the testimony”: then the ice drift is stormy, like a warm spring, and not on the eve of the thirty -first of December in the taiga forest, then the frost immediately fetters the river. And under the ice we see Chuk’s favorite toy. The very saving hare. Either the iron horseman is covered with snow along with the flag, then it will be revealed. That a watchman torn by the bear is about to die from the sepsis without drugs (as if all the medicines were taken by geologists who for some reason stomping the Far East), then the watchman comes to life to give the desired remark. But one of the brothers falls into ice water in a hat and boots. He himself will immediately dry clothes in the cold and continue the way, and even deploy a dry map. As if frozen, frozen from frost and the border itself, the transition between reality and a fairy tale, between different zones and the laws of the narrative.

But a completely magnificent episode, when the singer’s mother in her magnificent voice begins to sing her branded “trololo” to sing a terrible bear so that this bear is scared. And the bear was either terribly scared, or he heard.

They had never eaten, pine trees and white-white snow, the wolves and the bears have never heard such a magnificent “trololo”.

And how good the adventures are on the train. And the story with the almost magic stone of molybdenum, who is looking for a papa-geologist with companions, and finds Chuk himself in Bazhov’s fairy tale. And as a hek will drive away too stupid wolves with a red tie, which turns into the fire with a flashlight ... And the mother of Julia Snigir with her pretense of severity and a very real love for children and dad-geologist seems to be a real, slightly magical mother. And the crystal forest, and the wonderful Bazhov cave ringing stalactites. And the Christmas tree in the final of the long adventures ... Because everyone in this elegant romantic fairy tale found their particularly valuable, even more valuable than the treasured stone of molybdenum: the most-sung by loved ones, with which the New Year must be celebrated. Even if Pope-Geologist sent somewhere far, far, for the Blue Mountains.

Therefore, the picture of Alexander Kott and Arsen Gottlib may become the main family New Year's fairy tale.

With this idea, producer Arsen Gotlib rushed for several years. Then they ruled the script. Long, long. Almost immediately, director Alexander Cott was invited. He and his brother Vladimir are also in some respects Chuk and Huck, that is, they retained faith in good and miracle ... in the most dramatic circumstances. It is even strange that only now a new adaptation of one of the best children's stories about family and New Year has been made. And about a miracle that is almost impossible to believe in today. But, however, I want to.