The film "Alive": reviews, the plot, cast and reviews

The film "Alive", reviews on which you will find in this article, the domestic picture, which was released in 2006. It tells about the difficult adaptation of Russian soldiers who are returning from the Chechen war.

The plot of the movie

The film "Alive, its reviews are well characterized, it starts with a description of one of the battles of the Chechen war.The group of Russian spies is forced to retreat, several soldiers actually sacrifice themselves to cover fellow soldiers who are taking out a comrade wounded in the foot from the battlefield.

They are a contract soldier, Cyrus, played by Andrei Chadov. He is placed in a hospital where his leg is amputated. After that, he becomes disabled. The tragedy is added to the fact that he went to Chechnya with one goal - to earn money for a wedding with his beloved girlfriend. Arriving in his hometown, he clearly understands that he can no longer live a normal life.

He thinks a lot about the Caucasus, about the military conflict, the dead comrades. He often asks himself why he stayed at all.

Return to a peaceful life

Adapting the hero to a peaceful life is not easy. An official who must pay compensation to him requires a percentage. Cyrus first agrees, but then buys a saber, with which he goes to meet with the corrupt official. When he again demands a bribe, he kills him.

At night, he is hit by a car, reaching home, he sees the ghosts of his deceased brother-soldiers. They try to help him sort out a new life, only with them Cyrus feels well. However, ghosts condemn his actions, as a result of becoming his conscience.

In his home, he does not find a common language with either his parents or his beloved girl, who becomes a stranger to him.

He is intensively looking for the graves of his dead comrades. On the way to the cemetery he meets a young priest, who brings him up to the churchyard. At the burial site of friends, he finds a grave with his photograph, begins to worry, preventing the priest from praying for the peace. But he is adamant, even despite heavy rain. On the way back from the cemetery, the scene from the beginning of the picture repeats, when he gets under the car. This time, coming to, he meets all his friends. Together they go in an unknown direction, and Cyrus does not seem to notice that he has already stopped limping.

According to the director's idea, he died under the wheels of the car at the beginning of the picture. Having reunited with his comrades in the other world. All subsequent events are no more than his dying dreams.

Director of the picture

The film "Alive", which received positive reviews, was shot by the Russian director Alexander Veledinsky in his own script.

This was his fifth film work. But if the first pictures ("Anfan Terrible", "You and I, we are with you" and "Law") were little known, the drama "Russian", shot in 2004, had some success.

This is a screen version of Eduard Limonov 's works "Teenager Savenko", "We Had a Great Epoch", "My Negative Character", "Young Scoundrel" and "Russian", which gave the name of the film.

By the way, Eduard Savenko in the film (that is, Limonov) also plays Andrei Chadov. The painting was awarded at several domestic and international festivals. Chadov even received a prize for the best male role at the film festival "Moscow Premiere."

After the painting "Alive", Veledinsky took part in the film project "Experiment 5IVE", aimed at demonstrating the individuality and uniqueness of human perception. Prepared for this project a short film "Portrait".

In 2013, he shot the same adaptation of the novel by Alexei Ivanov "The Geographer Globe Drunk," which received the main prize at the Sochi festival Kinotavr.

Cast

In the movie "Alive" the actors, in many ways, ensured the success of the picture. First and foremost, the lead actor is Andrei Chadov.

This is a domestic actor who made his debut on the screen in a little-known movie "Avalanche" in 2001, and three years later he played a major role in the drama Vededinsky "Russian".

For his role in the movie "Alive", reviews of his work were positive and critics, and the audience, he was nominated for the "Nika" award, losing to Peter Mamonov, who played Anatoly's father in Pavel Lungin's drama "The Island". The prize for the best male role Chadov received at the festival MTV Russia Movie Awards.

Younger brother

In reviews of the film "Alive" in 2006, many also noted the successful work of his younger brother Alexei Chadov. He played a priest in a cemetery, which reads a prayer for the peace of the hero over the grave with his photograph at a time when he thinks he is still alive.

Between the brothers the difference is just over a year, but they are very similar to each other, which gave the picture a certain mystery and mystery.

On the big screen, Alexei Chadov made an even more successful career than his older brother. He also remembered the roles in the military drama of Fyodor Bondarchuk "9th company", the melodramatic comedy Rezo Gigineishvili "Heat", the fantasy comedy of Marius Vaysberg "Love in the City", the biographical drama about the sport of Yuri Korolev "Valery Kharlamov." Additional time ", adventure film Horrors of Oleg Stepchenko "Viy".

Picture review

Reviews and reviews for the movie "Alive" were the most diverse. Many critics were divided into those who believed, to the creators of the picture, and to those who did not.

Those who did not like the film, noted the presence of lies and falseness in the picture. And this is in the paintings about the war, especially about the one that ended recently, is perceived especially keenly.

Those who liked the film admit that they were bribed by honesty, bordering on naivety. Mat, tears and screams are really perceived truthfully. In addition, the scenario turned out to be the most tragic. Therefore, many times returned to the movie "Alive". Reviews, written by professional film critics, for the most part favorably treated this director's work.

Viewers' comments

But among the responses left by ordinary viewers, there were much more positive. Most of them were shocked by the brilliant play of actors. Reviews for the movie "Alive" in 2006 are often based on the fact that for some it was not obvious the death of the protagonist at the very beginning of the picture. Disputes about whether he really died under the wheels of the car or remained alive until the very end, lasted long enough.

For many young viewers, the film became a real revelation about the war in Chechnya. Some of the young spectators did not even know the details of this military conflict. Thanks to the film, they found out the details of this tragic war.

Spectators and critics ensured the drama of the nomination and several victories at the prestigious film festivals. So, the film was nominated for the main prize at Kinotavr, behind only the drama of Alexei Popogrebsky's "Simple Things". But he received the prize of the Guild of Film Critics and Film Critics of Russia and a prize named after Grigory Gorin for the best script.