center of the plot is the rivalry of two students of the camera department of vgik , the hero of tikhon zhiznevskyakable in his confidence, believes that everything in the cinema should be better than in life. it should inspire to exploits. this is how they taught the absolutely normal approach of an excellent student, of course, first of all, the approach an excellent student of the leader's approach, that is, he sees the hands of an intellectual in this way. leo alpiren, turns out to be a real life singer with his movie eye, instantly reacts to any genuine emotion. there was a fight. was there knocked out knocked out, which was true then. it is true that here the heroic war, which turned out to be on the threshold of their hometown, set the young operators a task of unprecedented complexity and were forced to reveal their talent, their professional excitement faced the real horror of battles, unbearable cold, sincere misunderstanding of people. why shoot them in grief? he is engaged, in his profession, in order to dive as deeply as possible into the topic of war, the consequences of camera work,