Bumbarash

The troubled times of the Civil War . Private Bumbarash returns to his village from the Austrian captivity of the First World War , to which he was sent, being sent to reconnaissance in a balloon . In his native places, however, everyone, including his beloved girl Varia, has long considered him dead. Varya was forced to marry Gavril, who leads a village self-defense detachment close to the bandits. The power in the vicinity periodically changes: white replaces red , and green replaces white.

Bumbarash’s friend Yashka offers him to go to the Reds, but Bumbarash refuses, saying that he has already been fought. While Bumbarash is hiding in the hayloft with his brother, Yashka detonates a bomb near the house of Gavrila. Due to the panic, Varya forces Bumbarash to leave so that he is not caught, and gives him an overcoat from someone selected by the detachment of Gabriel. Bumbarash wanders through forests and roads, meeting a Red Army man who changes his overcoat with him and finds in the overcoat of Bumbarash the pouch of the murdered commissar. Bumbarash on suspicion of murder lead to the headquarters to the Reds, but he escapes. In the forest, he stumbles upon a gang led by ataman Sophia, who is accompanied by Gavril. Fleeing the gang, Bumbarash wanders into the mill and hides in the bushes, but the owner of the mill turns out to be the gang's liaison: in his cellar was escaped from the village of Yashka, who was executed by bandits. Bumbarash vows to avenge the death of a friend.

In the forest, Bumbarash meets Levka Demchenko, the same as he is a restless traveler. Together they decide to lure the gang to the mill and call the Reds there. The gang is defeated, but this is not Sophia’s gang. Bumbarash and Lyovka enter the Red Army and, after a brief entry into the village and a meeting with Varya, go to the front. There the White Guards surround and destroy the detachment, only Bumbarash survives, who is specially sent with a package from the front line. In the forest, Bumbarash collides with a guard and, having learned that he must report some important news to the White Headquarters, shoots him. Having barely escaped further meeting with the whites, Bumbarash met a red detachment with a red army soldier, and he was again taken into custody. The detachment comes to the village of Bumbarash.

Meanwhile, Sophia orders one of the gang members to poison the well in the village. The Red Army men notice this and pretend that a detachment has embraced the disease. Sophia at dawn leads his squad on the Reds, but they give a stiff rebuff and break her squad. Sophia herself is killed. Gavrila runs away, capturing Varia. Bumbarash breaks out from under arrest and catches up with Gabriel in the sand quarry, but he kills Varia. The soldiers on horseback surround the quarry. Bumbarash raises a revolver, a shot is heard, one Bumbarash leaves the quarry.

• Valery Zolotukhin - Bumbarash
• Yuri Smirnov - Gavrila
• Natalya Dmitrieva - Varvara
• Ekaterina Vasilyeva - Ataman Sofya Nikolaevna Tulchinskaya
• Alexander Khochinsky - Lyovka Demchenko
• Alexander Belina - Yashka
• Lev Durov - Miller
• Leonid Bakshtaev - Chubatov
• Roman Tkachuk - Zaplatin
• Nikolay Dupak - Sovkov

In episodes

• Lev Perfilov - Melaniy, brother of Bumbarash
• Margarita Krinitsyna - wife Melania
• Alexander Filippenko - Strigunov, a white soldier ("Phenomenon")
• Lev Okrent - Lyon, hairdresser atamansha Tulchinskaya
• Osip Nayduk - a bandit
• Yuri Sherstnev
• Leonid Danchishin

• Script writer: Eugene Mitko , based on the early works of Arkady Gaidar
• Stage Directors:
  • Nikolay Rasheev
  • Arkady Naroditsky
• Director of Photography:
  • Vitaliy Zimovets
  • Boris Myasnikov
• Set Designer: Roman Adamovich
• Set Designer: Yu. Boyko
• Composer: Vladimir Dashkevich
• Lyrics: Yu. Mikhailov
• Sound engineer: Ariadna Fedorenko
• Editor: Inessa Razmashkina

Music: Vladimir Dashkevich , lyrics by Yu. Mikhailov . Songs for the film were written by Julius Kim , who due to problems with the authorities in the credits of the film is referred to as “Yu. Mikhailov. "

• 1972 - Prize for directing at a television festival in Tashkent .
• 2008 - According to independent surveys of Livejournal.com and Liveinternet.ru, the film was included in the "100 Best Russian Films" ^[1]

The script is based on the early works of Arkady Gaidar - the unfinished novel "The Talisman", better known as "Bumbarash", the essay story " In the days of defeat and victory ." Also used are the stories about Lyovka Demchenko (“Lyovka Demchenko”, “The End of Lyovka Demchenko” and “The Death of the 4th Company”), which were published in newspapers.

Initially, Mikhail Kononov auditioned for the role of Bumbarash (with which filming even began), and Nikolai Gubenko ^[2] for the role of Gavrila.

It is noteworthy that the name Bumbarash (Semyon) is never mentioned in the film. Even close people turn to the main character "Bumbarash" or "Bumbarashka", as if it were his nickname.

In the film you can see the steam locomotive of the 9P series , which is a historical inaccuracy: the release of this model of locomotives began only in 1935.

When shooting an episode of the execution of Varvara, actress Natalya Dmitrieva was seriously wounded in the arm with powder gases from close range. But she refused medical care and courageously finished the scene .

• In honor of the film, the youth communist newspaper “Bumbarash” got its name, the first issue of which was published in the USSR in May 1991 . Since 1993 it has become a newspaper of the RKSM . From 1996 to the present, the Bumbarash newspaper has been the central organ of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Union - RKSM (b) .
• After the film was released, Valery Zolotukhin was nicknamed “Bumbarashka” in the Taganka Theater .
• In 2015, the theme of the song “Horses Ride” was used by Yuri Krasavin to create music for the series “Quiet Don” , and bypassing Dashkevich’s copyright.

• Mitko E.N. Bumbarash. A script based on early works and the eponymous novel by A.P. Gaidar. - M: "Art", 1973.
• V. Nedelin. Live Bumbarash! // Soviet screen . - Publishing house " Pravda ", 1972. - S. 2-3 .

• "Bumbarash" on the site "Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema"