ussr ministry of cinematography. alert filmmakers were interested in whether the relevant authorities were familiar with the content of the film. from the transcript of a meeting of members of the ussr art council of cinematographerse are not competent to decide where the law is broken. that it turned out that he was watching, the deputy minister of state security watched and accepted. greatest the ending of the film raised doubts among those present. according to the artistic council, the film, with the exception of the end where the normal logic of the narrative disappears, is mostly well made. the end of the film, the whole situation with general kühn needs to be reworked. shouts were heard from the scene, killing the director. people. those who did not understand anything about the filmmaking process demanded that what was said here by the members of the artistic council would need to be taken into account by the film director. mikhail maklyarsky looked at the pale boris barnet, at the members of the arts council, slowly stood up and made a speech. he said that there is iron logic in this film, that the incidents they talk about happened in reality, that the ending is not an invention of the screenwriter. but