A historical drama. After watching and reviewing such Russian patriotic paintings as "Thunder Gate" and "Breakthrough", fellow viewers advised to watch another series on a similar topic, which is called "I have the honor!"Moreover, he was highly praised by veterans of the Second Chechen War, which was still fresh in his memory at the time of filming the picture. And after watching this series, the author of this review can safely say that the series is not just worthy of watching, but is also one of the best works on this topic. I must honestly admit that the author of this review was so passionate about the script and emotions when watching it that he was overwhelmed that he could not highlight the disadvantages. Well, you can name one - budget, here all the effects and combat episodes are as intimate as possible and rather faded, especially against the background "Breakthrough" or "Thunder Gate". Therefore, the author of this review will focus in more detail on the advantages of this series.
So, here they are:
1. The scenario is the Second Chechen War. An honest, brave and noble Russian officer, paratrooper, Captain Sergei Chislov, is restoring order in Chechnya as part of a group of federal forces. He serves faithfully, honestly, but one case, because of which his group and he himself almost died due to the actions of a higher command, pisses him off, and he wants to leave the army by writing the appropriate paper. He is given a short vacation to St. Petersburg. And only there, after living for a few days in this glorious and majestic city, he will understand a lot and make the right decisions about his fate. In addition to the captain, the series will tell us several more stories of different characters, and from two sides, but it turned out better for the captain and senior lieutenant Pankevich. Four episodes fly by unnoticed, since almost all the characters are revealed and you can empathize with them, and wish our Russian guys and men to defeat Chechen terrorism and return home with victory (and so it happened). Plus, the series touches on the famous battle at height 776 (the sixth company of Pskov paratroopers against thousands of international Islamic terrorists, the paratroopers took an unequal battle and went into the sky forever). There are no sparkling dialogues here, but there are a lot of everyday situations. The series holds the bar high from start to finish.
Russian Russian Army 2. Allegories - Captain Chislov is not just the main character of the series, he also embodies a whole stratum of Russian officers who know what the "Motherland" is and love it selflessly, despite all the various bad things that happened (and are happening now) in the Russian state. It is thanks to such dedicated officers as Captain Chislov that we were able to win in Chechnya, we were able to win in Syria, and God willing, we will win in Novorossiya and Little Russia. It is by looking and learning from such officers that soldiers defeat any opponent. It is such officers who ensure the continuity of generations and do not allow the Russian army to sink to the bottom (although everything has happened in history).
3. Atmosphere - the series accurately reflects the realities of those years. Here you have betrayal, and the "capital roof" of terrorists, and business support, and interference in the internal affairs of Russia by "international observers", indifference or a complete lack of patriotism in Russian society (although patriots are shown, but there are not so many of them). This is also felt in Chechnya, where even the local population is not very happy about the presence of the Russian army, let alone the fact that the terrorists used local residents as informants. It's not worth talking about the brutality of terrorists and bandits (both mercenaries and Chechens), since the series focuses on this. Yes, there is a lot more here. If you list everything, then the review will turn out to be very long. Igor Kornelyuk's good music also works on the atmosphere.
4. Patriotism - the picture is saturated with love for Russia and full of hopes for the best (so far, alas, these hopes have not come true). When Russian boys died in the frame, no matter in battle or from vile enemy mines, it clicked in my heart, as it was in "Breakthrough" and "Thunder Gates", not to mention such a picture as "Purgatory". The characters in the series are Russian soldiers and officers, and those who support them and do not abandon them in difficult times. It is clear why this series is not shown on federal channels.
A little bit about the main characters:
1. Captain Sergey Chislov, played by Alexander Lazarev Jr., is an honest and competent officer, whom soldiers love and respect very much, both in the army and in the "citizen" shows his best qualities. I immediately remember the wonderful Soviet film "Officers". So, Captain Chislov is a modern officer of the sample of the second Chechen war. He may say too much, but he will not leave the weak in trouble, and he will take the girl home, and punish the terrorists, and fulfill his duty. Alexander Lazarev Jr. Did his best here. This is his best role. Bravo!
2. Senior Lieutenant Lev Pankevich, performed by Alexander Frolov, is a combat starley who, with his fighters, "both into fire and into water," performs the combat task as efficiently as possible. Obviously, we are preparing to become a "second" Numerical, because we have a lot to learn from him. Alexander was very convincing. Well done!
3. Colonel Primakov, performed by Yuri Tsurilo, is a staff officer who issues tasks to the Chislov detachment. Unlike Yuri Tsurilo's other roles, where he mostly has hysterical generals, here he is shown to be an honest and fair commander who will fight to the last for his paratroopers, especially in front of his superiors. Bravo!
Sergei Astakhov is also remembered here in the role of Chislov's colleague.
It is worth repeating once again - it is extremely sad that people do not learn about such high-quality Russian TV series from federal TV, but only on the recommendation of grateful viewers and veterans of the second Chechen war, who praised the picture for its relative realism and reliability of events. The author of this review recommends this series for viewing!
Rating 8 out of 10!
