The Hot Snow (Goryachiy Sneg) (Krupnyy Plan)

A heroic drama, based upon the title novel by Yuri Bondarev (novels “Quiet”, “The Shore”, “The Choice”, novella “Battalions Ask for Fire”).
The film recounts the story of one battle of the Great Patriotic War, the battle on the Volga. The authors focus their attention on the fate of Soviet soldiers and officers in just one battery, who, at the price of heroic efforts and their own lives, did not let the enemy tanks through.
Unlike the plaster, headquarters-centered description of war in the 1940s and the lyrical-romantic one in the 1960s, the war in this film had again become a people’s war, with the onscreen appearance of field wives, needless deaths, kitchens lagging behind, frostbitten scouts, vodka rations, funeral teams and such shame as Vlasov’s 2nd Shock Army, in which fought and was reported missing the son of General Bessonov, perhaps the most convincing army commander of the Soviet screen, superbly portrayed by Georgy Zhzhyonov.
…And staying in our memory forever will be his terse, from overflowing emotions, phrase: “I wish I could do more”, and the scene when the seven surviving men, all that remained of the regiment, crowded, frozen, in a shell-dug crater, cried and drank their vodka ration to the newly-won decorations.



Awards:
• 1973 – A. Dovzhenko Silver Medal went to author Yuri Bondarev, director G. Yegiazarov, cinematographer F. Dobronravov and actor G. Zhzhyonov
• 1975 – The Vassiliev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR was awarded to screenwriters Yu. Bondarev and Ye. Grigoryev, director and screenwriter G. Yegiazarov, cinematographer F. Dobronravov, production designer V. Golikov, actors G. Zhzhyonov and B. Tokarev
• Box-office figures: 22.9 miln. viewers

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Geroicheskaya drama po odnoimennomu romanu YUriya Bondareva.
Film rasskazyvaet tolko ob odnom srazhenii Velikoj Otechestvennoj v velikoj bitve na Volge, o sudbe sovetskih soldat i ofitserov, kotorye tsenoj sobstvennyh zhiznej ne propustili vrazheskie tanki.
V etom filme Velikaya Otechestvennaya vojna predstala poistine vojnoj narodnoj, a v kadr pronikli pohodnye zheny, nikchemnye smerti, otstavshie kuhni, narkomovskie sto gramm, pohoronnye komandy i takoj styd, kak Vtoraya udarnaya armiya, v kotoroj sginul bez vesti syn generala Bessonova, samogo, pozhaluj, ubeditelnogo voenachalnika sovetskogo ekrana v nesravnennom ispolnenii Georgiya ZHzhenova.
…I navsegda ostanetsya v pamyati ego skupaya, ot izbytka nahlynuvshih chuvstv, fraza: «Vse, chto mogu!» i kadr, kogda semero ostavshihsya ot polka v raskurochennoj voronke toptalis, plakali i zalivali svezhie ordena pajkovym spirtom.


Nagrady:
• 1973 g. – Serebryanaya medal imeni A. Dovzhenko - nagrazhdeny: pisatel YU. Bondarev, Rezhisser G. Egiazarov, operator F. Dobronravov, akter G. ZHzhenov
• 1975 – Gosudarstvennaya premiya RSFSR imeni bratev Vasilevyh - udostoeny: stsenaristy YU. Bondarev, E. Grigorev, rezhisser i stsenarist G. Egiazarov, operator F. Dobronravov, hudozhnik V. Golikov, aktery G. ZHzhenov, B. Tokarev

Prokat - 22.9 mln. zritelej.