February 28, 2009
Weekend Video: Tomorrow was the War
Tomorrow Was the War (English subtitles). Part 1 of 9.
Tomorrow Was the War / Zavtra byla voyna
Based upon the title story by the classic of the national literature Boris Vasilyev (The Dawns Here Are Quiet, Officers), this film recreates with an amazing authenticity the atmosphere of the 1930s-1940s Soviet Union, which stirs at once the feelings of admiration and horror, and, thus, mesmerizes and enticesThe year is 1940. A small provincial town. A 9-year schoolgirl, Vika Lyuberetskaya, recites poems by the banned poet Sergey Yesenin. Soon her father is arrested as an enemy of the people. The girl gets hunted at school after that, and she commits suicide. And tomorrow the war starts and almost all of yesterdays schoolchildren are to die in its fire Somebody was burned in a tank, somebody was hanged for participation in resistance, somebody became an ace pilot. It is a great movie, see it if you have an opportunity…
May be you would learn something you did not know about people from the USSR and about this period of history.
The films soundtrack includes music of the 1930s and works by Antonio Vivaldi (Thanks to Boris in Pushkino)