Based on Boris Vasiliev's novel of the same name, the film tells the story of Warrant Officer Vaskov during the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union, leading five female fighters in a fierce and brutal blockade battle in the vast forest, and finally defeating Deko, who was several times larger than himself.
The film has been repeatedly remade, and there are TV drama versions, which are often filmed and often new.
After the film entered China for distribution and broadcast, it gained a large number of fans and won a large number of loyal audiences, especially those who were deeply influenced by the red gene and knew a little about the history of Sino-Soviet relations.
What impresses the audience in the film is not the revolutionary heroism in the general sense that we usually say, not the love of the homeland, the love of the motherland, the love of the people, and the loyalty to the leader that we often praise, but the film's deep depiction and reflection of human nature, showing the harm of war to mankind and reflecting the thinking of the creators.
The characters in the play are ordinary people, from warrant officer Vaskov to the five female soldiers of the Red Army, all have such and such personalities, and all have common shortcomings of ordinary people. It is these so-called shortcomings that make the characters flesh and blood, extra kind, extra real. This is where the film's success lies.
In resisting foreign insults and defending the motherland, these ordinary people burst out with amazing energy and created achievements that can be sung and wept.
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