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Solonitsin is my ideal of man for all times. His perfect acting is so deep and touching. The Love scene with Tatar people and his girl - is the most powerful love scene in the whole cinematography even there is no any sex or naked people. Emotions are given in so intelligent way! In new cinema this is rare case. And also such scenes are relevant for contemporary Russia more than ever - Russian girls prefer to migrate to EU or US in order to receive fancy clothes. Final episodes with young guy trying to build in chaotic Russian realities are also very impressive. That is the best example of successful project management. Thank you, Andrey Tarkovsky! I love your Russia.

This film geniusly reflects the complex of difficulties existed in the relationship "humans-nature". Kamchatka is amazing place to be in Russia, Kamchatka in this movie is twice amazing. Dobrygin perfectly transfers quite common for contemporary Russia typical Russian guy image in the age of 22-27 - a bit disoriented in the space, introverted, frustrated, oriented to the pleasures of life more than on the help to other people. His acting is perfect and hi is hot. The other character is made also successfully. There are a lot of such men in the age of 40-45 who are much stronger than Dobrygin's generation because they experienced the market transformations in early 90s. Thus they think they know everything and often use authoritative way of behavior. The conflict of generations, isolation issue, nature and humans..These is not full list of topics highlighted by the movie.

The film is rather empty. I didn't like it despite all positive references here. Humor is rather strange. The story line is not definite. The main characters are not clear except the Jonathan. May be for foreigners it seems OK, but for people speaking Russian, film, people and their actions look strange. The only thing which is good reflected there is beautiful Ukrainian nature, fields, traditions. The scene with food is absolutely wrong, because a lot of people in Eastern Europe don't eat meat and this tradition has big history. Also the personage of grandfather is not clear at all for me. I expected much more from this movie.