Doomed to war

The film takes place during the Great Patriotic War . For four days, Zoska and Anton wander through the snowy forests, trying to fulfill the instructions of the commander of the partisan detachment.

• Nina Loshchinina - Zosia
• Yuri Kolokolnikov - Anton
• Andrey Panin - Pole Stefan
• Daria Mikhailova - polka
• Fedor Dobronravov - sergeant
• Sergey Zhuravel - Petryakov
• Alexey Kolokoltsev - Salei
• Pavel Navrotsky - Pashka
• Mikhail Kaminsky - Surovets
• Elena Dubrovskaya - Manya
• Mikhail Guro - Mani's husband
• Igor Denisov - father of Mani
• Anatoly Kharlamov - Vacek

• Director: Olga Zhulina
• Script writers: Olga Zhulina , Elena Isaeva
• Operator: Vladimir Brylyakov
• Artist: Sergey Gudilin
• Composer: Dmitry Kurlyandsky

The final picture is different from the book - the main character tragically dies - according to Olga Zhulina, if it were not for the pressure of the Soviet government in those years, Bykov would have finished his book in this way. ^[1] According to the director, Anton killed Zosia, because " rolling downhill deeper, he realized that he could not take her with him, breaking her inner integrity, persuading her to go down one level with him ."

The girl, our heroine, is a village girl. She is “social. product of the Soviet era. " She is brought up correctly. Of course, religion was forbidden, but, nevertheless, a certain religiosity is present in it, which means that these are completely different parameters of spirituality. The boy, our main character, is a city guy. He grew up without parents, and he had to survive on the street. On the one hand, because of this feeling, when you need to constantly survive, in the war he feels “at ease”, and on the other hand, he accepts the circumstances and quickly adapts to them. I did not want to represent him as an unambiguous traitor. He is, first of all, a man who wants to live .

- Director and scriptwriter of the film Olga Zhulina

The shooting took place in Belarus, in the vicinity of the city of Minsk, in Logoisk and Smolevichi, where partisan detachments operated by Bykov’s story.

According to Olga Zhulina, the film, shot with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Russia, had a very limited budget, which affected the irregularities in the visual range and the schematic nature of the script, as well as the lack of extras.

The film aroused interest even before the release, despite the lack of pre-rental advertising and the year 2008/2009 rich in films about the war .

Suddenly, somewhere between the thriller “Killer” and the horror film “ Dead Snow ” (according to the annotation it is “A hilarious Norwegian horror story about Nazi zombies, shot almost a penny by a group of erudite enthusiasts”) , a film called “Doomed to War” is discovered. You can’t call this rental wide - there are only two halls, and there is no advertisement for the film (not like the Bastards , whose posters adorned all the bus stops at one time). But for some reason there is hope that this film will be worthy. Otherwise, to paraphrase its name, we can all be called doomed. Not for war, no. For amnesia. With all the ensuing consequences. .

- Alexander Vislov, senior researcher at the Institute of Art Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation, leading editor of the literary newspaper art department ^[2]

Prior to this, Vasily Bykov’s story “To Go and Do Not Return” was twice filmed by Belarusfilm Studio: in 1992, directed by Nikolai Knyazev, the film

“ Go and not return ” with Yulia Vysotskaya in the title role, and in 2004, directed by Eugene Setko, the film “ Go and not return ” with Yulia Kadushkevich in the title role.

Critics noted that both actresses in Belarusian films greatly lose to Nina Loshchinsky, and that the Russian film adaptation was better: “ Russian filmmakers did not reach the heights of the story, but in their approach there is a feeling that they feel Bykov’s heroes .” ^[3] At the same time, the Belarusian press extremely negatively assessed the film: “The on-duty movie, shot accurately, but without drive. Most of all it resembles a typical Soviet “planned unit”, and also that the director did not know that he would film Bykov . ” ^[four]

• Prize for Best Actress ( Nina Loshchinina ) - XV Russian Film Festival " Literature and Cinema " in Gatchina.
• Prize for Best Actress ( Nina Loshchinina ) - VI International festival of military-patriotic film “Volokolamsk border” (Moscow region, 2009).
• Prize for Best Actress ( Nina Loshchinina ) and prize for directorial debut - VII International War Film Festival named after Yu. N. Ozerova (Rostov-on-Don, 2009)
• Prize to them. Konenkova to the director of the film - II All-Russian Film Festival of Acting Directors “Golden Phoenix” (Smolensk, 2009).

• Marina Suranova - Partisan Paul // Internet newspaper “ Vzglyad ”, May 12, 2009

• Doomed to War at the Internet Movie Database  
• Oksana Romanova - “Doomed to War” will soon be on the screens of the capital // Radio Culture , May 5, 2009
• "Doomed to war": the story of Romeo and Juliet for lovers of Jarmusch // "Smolensk newspaper", July 3, 2011
• In Youth, the premiere screening of a new film about the war, it turned out pretty good ... // May 7, 2009