I am still sentimental. When I left the premiere of the film "The Legend of Kolovrat", crazy tears appeared in my eyes, it's true. Not from emotion.
Out of grief for what the historical exploits of our Russian people turn into, when shopkeepers from modern Russian cinema take on their retelling.
Ivan Shurkhovetsky filmed, and Janik Fayziev produced an excellent movie. And this is not about "Admiral", a picture pompous, colorful, but not true.
Janik can and knows how to sell great movies. And with the money that was allocated to him for Kolovrat, he could have made, of course, not an immortal masterpiece, but a good historical film. But Fayziev made tens of millions of dollars for a futuristic Indian, Bollywood blockbuster. Where one maharaja kills one hundred enemies at once with one blow, and instead of fighting elephants, a huge brown bear appears in his picture, which seriously decides the alignment between the Russian and Mongolian soldiers in favor of the Russians.
To be understood by those who are not in the subject. Evpatiy Kolovrat is not a hero of a pagan epic and not a pagan from Pereslavl. Evpatiy Kolovrat is a serious Orthodox man, a Ryazan governor, a fighter and quite fierce, with extensive experience in battles.
He accomplished his key feat in 1238, when, with a detachment of about 1500-1700 Russian soldiers, he attacked the rear guard of the troops of the Mongol Khan Batu, who had taken and ruined his native Ryazan (Rezan) before, and after two attacks was surrounded by the Mongols, he did not surrender As befits Russian stubborn peasants, he fought to the last, and according to the military concept of that time, Batu was already exalted dead and handed over with military honors to the Russians who survived the battle.
Almost the entire detachment of the brave voivode was killed, but the tradition of the Middle Ages necessarily attributed real fighters to the veneration of their contemporaries.
The story of Evpatiy, if a serious director had taken it, could have gotten crazy development.
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In Russia, films, incomparable in terms of reconstruction of the events of those times, have already been shot - "Mongol" and "Horde", where even the buttons on the clothes of Russians and Mongols are made in single copies and from real bone.
Janik Fayziev and his brother Shurkhovetsky took a different path. For them, the events of a furious and short fight between Kolovrat and the Mongols turned out to be a replica of 300 Spartans. By the way, not the best. That is why Dzhanik's Batu (Batu) is squat and very angry during his lifetime - a romantic gay in a blue robe and painted nails on well-groomed hands.
I am a Russian patriot, but how is it possible to mock the conquerors who took half the world precisely thanks to Genghis Khan's "Yasse", who simply and clearly justified everything and everyone, how and with what help to conquer peoples - in his opinion, this is definitely not to be achieved with the help of young handsome boys with painted eyes and faces surrounded by Batu, who, by the way, had a beloved wife in reality.
But this is not enough for Janik, and he paints all Mongols with eyed down.
Only winter, very poorly and artificially depicted by Fayziev, does not allow the Mongols to strip naked in order to show their pierced nipples, as shown in "300 Spartans" by their leader, the Persian king Xerxes.
No, naked Mongols also come across when they beat the drums in Russians -20. But okay, let's not talk about them.
Russians are depicted spiritually uplifting. I speak without irony. The customer Fayziev and his team may have said: "The Russians should be tough guys."
Here Serebryakov, of course, joined in, and many heroes of our cinema. But the main thing is that most of the actors played the role of Russians, in fact, suicide bombers, from the heart.
Yes, they were helped by a bear, who woke up in hibernation, buried all the nasty ones, but he pitied ours, or rather, no - he just helped and let himself be stroked.
Yes, General-Frost helped our people. Therefore, the Kolovrat delegation, leaving the city walls of besieged Ryazan and after 500 meters reaching the Batu camp, for negotiations, having quarreled with the Mongols, left for several days (instead of returning to Ryazan), and they did not pursue it because Baty ordered not to catch up - they will be killed by a storm anyway”, where, in Ryazan ?!
And nothing that the Mongol warriors of those times overcame up to 100 km of one passage a day, and in any weather.
Do you think I'm drowning for the Mongols? Not. But I recommend Fayziev to read the great books of the Soviet writer and professor Yan "Batu" and "Genghis Khan" in order to understand at least a little the essence of the era.
I have to say a few important words about the spirit of the film. This fact exists.
Russians as a whole are shown as brave warriors, reflecting the role of Orthodox shepherds who blessed the warriors for battle and themselves who died in battle.
The film will appeal to many people, especially those who remember "300 Spartans", the generation of Google.
If the creators sincerely saw the film like this, then I don't even have any complaints. And still.
- The Mongols were not gay; Chingiz's Yassa punished this with immediate death.
- The Russians did not have a beard and mustache in white crumbs every minute.
- Bears sleep in the winter, and if they get out the rods, they kill the Mongols and the Russians alike.
- If the camp of Russian soldiers spends the night in an open field in the winter, then the governor's wife, even for the sake of showing a beautiful body, does not strip naked in order to hug her beloved husband on a mat of withered grass - at that time a Russian woman gave birth to 10 children, as if she had frostbitten appendages, she's not a hipster, is she?
- In Russian history, there were no sledges on which, having spread the sail, it was possible to drive along the ice of the great Russian rivers, fleeing the Mongols. You will also see what kind of sail it was, which was deployed by orphans fleeing from the Mongols - this is a complex construction even in slow motion, by the way, where did the horse that carried the children go to?
Janik Fayziev's film is a beautiful blotter. The feat of the beautiful Russian voivode Kolovrat will remain in history, like many similar feats of the Middle Ages.
The notorious "Russian" cinema strikes us, or rather, people who still have brains, blow after blow, aimed at creating an idiotic image of Russian history.
Only this year it is "Viking", this is mediocre "Matilda". This is now Kolovrat. On “28 Panfilovites” they collect money from the whole world, and they collect barely 2 million dollars. On "Viking", "Matilda" and "Kolovrat" they allocate 30-40 million dollars as from a bush for each, and give out Bollywood, not even Hollywood dullness.
Well, okay, guys, you have earned and well done, I appeal to those who directed all this. Our right, in comparison with you, the poor and rogues, is to make sure that normal people do not pay money out of their own pockets for your "pictures". I did my job in this regard.
Andrey Malosolov